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RIP. Are there any other faculty members (not necessarily at MIT) who have managed to start their own companies which became successful, and yet have stayed on
by pdevr 13y ago
RIP.
Are there any other faculty members (not necessarily at MIT) who have managed to start their own companies which became successful, and yet have stayed on as a faculty member? That itself seems to be a rare achievement.
- rdl 13y agoRon Rivest (RSA Security) would be a great example of that, although he wasn't CEO of RSA (for long, I think).
- anusinha 13y agoProf. Phil Sharp [1] received the Nobel Prize and founded Biogen, one of the earliest biotech companies. He remains on the faculty at MIT as an Institute Professor, the highest distinction awarded to MIT faculty. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Allen_Sharp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Allen_Sharp
- wheels 13y agoLet's see. There's one called "Y Combinator". I think they have a website, but I can't find it at the moment.
- acjohnson55 13y agoBarry Nalebuff of Honest Tea is a professor at Yale. I didn't really know anything about him or his company until I saw him speak yesterday, but both are quite impressive!
- auctiontheory 13y agoBarry is a Professor at the Yale School of Management. He seems to be one of the few business school faculty (i.e. not a technologist) to have founded a successful product company. As opposed to a consulting company, of which there are many examples. I remember when CK Prahalad took a leave from Michigan to start Praja, but I don't think it was very successful.
- Erwin 13y agoMIPS was started by Stanford people including Hennessy whose CPU architecture book (Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface) is famous: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy -- since then he returned, and is now Stanford's president.
- vayudoot 13y agoTom Leighton of Akamai - http://people.csail.mit.edu/ftl/ http://people.csail.mit.edu/ftl/
- colinsidoti 13y agoBob Langer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Langer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Langer
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- pdevr 13y agoI cannot edit the parent comment, so posting as a reply: I learnt about some great people today. Thanks to all those who replied.