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That's why I put the "really" in there. It was government funded in the sense that any side project people work on in grad school is government funded, since t
by pg 15y ago
That's why I put the "really" in there. It was government funded in the sense that any side project people work on in grad school is government funded, since the government is paying their living expenses. If that makes the startup a spinoff, Apple was a spinoff of HP, because Woz was still working at HP when he started designing the Apple I.
- robg 15y agoA $24M project, over 4 years, at six universities is exactly supposed to encourage creative innovation among the next generation and surrounded by domain experts. That initiative was designed to produce projects like Backrub. Was Woz's job description at HP written to specify novel hardware? Was he surrounded by mentors and other employees hired to support that initiative? Across six departments?