Part of the reason I left a faculty position at one of the tippity-top CS programs was my research was having trouble getting published and funded because I was

Part of the reason I left a faculty position at one of the tippity-top CS programs was my research was having trouble getting published and funded because I was basically invalidating 20 years of a certain type of approach. I went to industry and I’m loving it. For all its faults, SV is way more oriented towards new ways of thinking that the academy is. Why would you allow a paper to be published that put your giant NSF grant at risk? Why would you focus on making efficient and scalable systems that require less grants to fund? Saving money is literally career poison when the university feeds on big bloated budgets. In industry I can make a case I can save $10M with a new technique and I get a shot at proving it. Try writing a grant that says you can do the same type of research with 1/10th of the funds!