Yup. Well put. For more, if want to do a startup with the advantage of some original research that is not yet a fad or hot topic, research you are likely the

Yup. Well put. For more, if want to do a startup with the advantage of some original research that is not yet a fad or hot topic, research you are likely the only who will do it, there's no rush, under 30 won't have the prerequisites. The problem to be solved doesn't have to be new, hot, or a fad but in whole or in significant part so far just solved poorly or not at all and where some good research can get the first good or a much better solution. Such research is not the well worn path down Sand Hill Road to $1 T, but so far not even Sand Hill Road has such a well worn path. There are only a few $1 T cases or candidates so far; the patterns are not attractive; and from elsewhere, especially US national security, research has a much more promising track record. Uh, for Silicon Valley, how old was Shockley? How old was Tukey when he did the FFT? How old is Irving?