Spike Lee gathered together an impressive array of talent for JUNGLE FEVER (1991), the story of an interracial love affair that brings out the worst in everybody.
Yet he concedes the competition for AI talent is now at fever pitch — pointing, for example, to startup Geometric Intelligence, founded by a group of academics and acquired by Uber at the end of 2016 after operating for only about a year.
They are basing raises, bonuses and incentive payments for chief executives and other top talent susceptible to dot-com fever on company earnings, rather than on stock performance, for example.
Investors in the round include Zaryn Dentzel (Tuenti), Bernardo Hernandez (Idealista, Flickr, ex-Google, Fever), Felix Ruiz (JobandTalent, Tuenti), Antai Venture Builder, and Cube Investments.
Just as had happened after Uruguay won the 1924 Olympics in Paris, some South American talent had set off a fever for the game in Europe.
But competition for talent in Silicon Valley is now reaching fever pitch.
While the mating dance between the newly unemployed officials and a lobbying industry hungering for new talent is nothing new, it is operating at a fever pitch this year.
With the Olympic marathon in Beijing not scheduled until Aug. 24, though, Hall needed a short-term goal to test himself against the world's top talent, if not something to tone down his Olympic fever.
According to Rabois, during down times when there's not a lot of funding or fever to start companies, it's easy to hire great talent.
As the popularity of its spin-off show Serial – currently the world's most downloaded podcast – hits fever pitch, This American Life is sending two staff producers to Melbourne to scout for talent at the 2015 Pause festival.
