Dan Zigmond has spent over 20 years living and working in Silicon Valley, working for both tiny startups and tech giants. He is currently director of analytics at Facebook, responsible for the data science behind the news feed. Zigmond is also a board partner at Metamorphic Ventures, a venture capital company based in New York, and an advisor to many startups in Silicon Valley and beyond. He is an ordained Zen Buddhist priest, teaching occasionally at Jikoji Zen Center in the Santa Cruz mountains, and has studied and practiced Buddhism in temples in America, Thailand, and Japan. In 2015, he was named one of Wired magazine’s “20 Business Geniuses You Need to Know.” He has two teen daughters, and spends most of his non-work, non-meditating time driving them around.