Nice point. The article is smart in pointing out the conflict-of-interest between professors encouraging star students to work on their commercial ventures. B

Nice point. The article is smart in pointing out the conflict-of-interest between professors encouraging star students to work on their commercial ventures. But the article oversteps in saying this is the main thing that's going on at Stanford. It's a big place. My connection with Stanford is working with solar physicists there who developed a series of space instruments to observe the Sun -- a big effort, lots of people, hardware, and computers, but nothing commercial about it.