DJ Patil

“Seek Out Those That Will Take A Risk On You”: DJ Patil’s Inspired Commencement Speech

The Greylock Partners data scientist shows how chaos theory and kindness go together–and can lead to a job, a career, a life, the universe, and everything.

Generation Flux Salon: What Is The Difference Between A Pivot, A Reorganization, And A Panic?

DJ Patil’s Crowdsourced Commencement Address On Utter Failure

Instead of crowing about career triumphs and students’ bright futures, Greylock Partners data scientist DJ Patil addressed a more pressing topic at a recent commencement address: his biggest failures, and why new graduates should embrace similar humiliation.

Why Turning The Wheel Won’t Be Enough To Change The Direction Of Your Career

Bite-Sized Wisdom From Innovative Thinkers At Google, IBM, Airbnb, And More

How DJ Patil Weighs Growth Vs. Innovation

This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business

The future of business is pure chaos. Here’s how you can survive–and perhaps even thrive.

Generation Flux: DJ Patil

Our profile of DJ Patil, Data Scientist at Greylock Partners. His career includes being a researcher at Los Alamos, a Defense Department fellow, a virtual librarian for Iraq, a web-security architect for eBay, and head of a data team at LinkedIn, where his team created “People You May Know.”