Sounds a bit like SAS. Not the family part but the part about starting from an academic background, plus high growth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Institu

Sounds a bit like SAS. Not the family part but the part about starting from an academic background, plus high growth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Institute SAS is an interesting company, both for their revenue growth and their work culture. >During the 1980s, SAS was one of Inc. Magazine's fastest growing companies in America from 1979 and 1985.[18][23] It grew more than ten percent per year from $10 million in revenues in 1980[6] to $1.1 billion by 2000.[23] In 2007, SAS revenue was $2.15 billion, and in 2013 its revenue was $3.02 billion. By the late 1990s, SAS was the largest privately held software company. >SAS is well known for its workplace culture.[36][41] The company was used as a model for workplace perks at Google[3] and is taught as a case study in management seminars at Stanford. The page about the SAS CEO, James Goodnight, is also interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Goodnight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Goodnight