Since it's PhDs you're after, maybe you could offer something along the lines of a small lab that they can pursue their own projects in for 1-2 days a week and establish that you encourage them to publish research.
I guessed, but didn't mention it since it seemed somewhat unlikely that you would have more or better data than Facebook/Google/Etc.
Re:Power in the Age of the Feudal Internet
by AndrewKemendo on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @06:33PM
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Right, nobody does. That's why it's such a challenge.
Not to harp on what we do too much, but that's all part of what we offer. Remote, minimum vacation (meaning we set a mandatory 10 day minimum but no higher bound on vacation day), equity grants (not options) etc... to make up for not having 400k salaries.
As I mentioned elsewhere though, with most people money is what tips it over, but not they key thing. It's access to data that is important - it's why LeCun went to Facebook and Ng to Baidu. That's not something you can get as a startup without a product at massive scale already (though we have some staggeringly large proprietary vision data).