>I haven't seen any company founded by university faculty that have survived and made impact Bose, Broadcom, Qualcomm, Financial Engines, Genentech, MathWorks,

>I haven't seen any company founded by university faculty that have survived and made impact Bose, Broadcom, Qualcomm, Financial Engines, Genentech, MathWorks, Boston Dynamics, Pixar (I think it counts), Arista Networks, MIPS, Rambus, Duolingo, Sun Microsystems. Depending on what your cut off is for made an impact, I'm sure there are dozens more from Stanford alone.