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Dennis Yu's CNN Feature Sparks Career Growth

9 Jul 2024 · 0 min

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This content was created by Richard Canfield. This content was uploaded by Richard Canfield. This is a YouTube video titled "Dennis Yu's CNN Feature Sparks Career Growth" containing a conversation between Dennis Yu and Richard Canfield, recorded on July 9, 2024. They discuss the impact of the Cambridge Analytica scandal on Dennis Yu's career, including his experience being called by CNN to discuss the issue, which transitioned him from a search engine engineer to a public figure.

Richard, do you remember when Cambridge Analytica went down? All the privacy nonsense, Facebook and, you know, interfering with elections and data scandals, all that, you know, that made a.
Few news headlines during that time frame? I absolutely do remember. I mean, I didn't get into the weeds on it, but, you know, now that you bring it up, I can only imagine how that might.
Have drastically.
Impacted your business.
Well, CNN called me and they said, we need you in the studios tomorrow morning to be able to talk about this. And then I was going to live debate Mark Zuckerberg in front of millions of people live, so there's no chance to repeat yourself or rerecord or any of that. And I was super, super nervous. And I flew there, didn't get enough sleep because I was afraid I'd missed the 5am alarm and all these sorts of bits, and it ended up working out okay. And that was what launched my career from being a search engine engineer like a data geek, to. To a public figure. And I learned so much.