Curious anecdote: Elon Musk started out in this field, which gave him the capital to do X.com/Paypal (among his more recent endeavors). From [1]: He stayed tw

Curious anecdote: Elon Musk started out in this field, which gave him the capital to do X.com/Paypal (among his more recent endeavors). From [1]: He stayed two days [at Stanford] before dropping out to start Zip2, which provided online content publishing software for news organizations, with his brother Kimbal Musk. In 1999, Compaq's AltaVista division acquired Zip2 for US$307 million in cash and US$34 million in stock options. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk