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To: Ali Chen who wrote (176915)	2/8/2004 4:23:29 PM
From: brushwud	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"If you knew anything about the history of Sun or SGI or Netscape you would know this wasn't true." I wouldn't swear to complete accuracy, by in my recollection most technological companies you mention (and Rambus e.g.) were founded by seasoned professors and not by green graduates... You're right about Rambus, but Lizzie's basically right about her examples. Sun came directly from the Stanford University Network and Andy Bechtolsheim was a Ph.D. student there. Bill Joy came directly from Cal, where he had worked on BSD Unix. Scott McNealy was a fresh MBA from Stanford. Vinod Khosla also had a Stanford MBA, but was already in business. SGI's founder was professor Jim Clark, but he brought a cadre of grad students and Stanford lab workers who continued the Geometry Engine project they had worked on at Stanford. Netscape was also founded by Jim Clark, but the chief technologist was Marc Andreesen, who had led the Mosaic browser project at Illinois. So all three companies commercialized university projects. Therefore those students' university experience was state-of-the-art.