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RTM is a massive outlier who isn't representative of the distribution you're describing.
by Nate75Sanders 13y ago
RTM is a massive outlier who isn't representative of the distribution you're describing.
- arjunnarayan 13y agoMatt Welsh, Eric Brewer, Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Mike Dahlin all have PhDs and lead teams that write serious production code at Google. Ion Stoica and Hui Zhang have started technically heavy networking startups. Joe Hellerstein has a new startup (I'm not familiar with the details). You don't hear much about them because they aren't sexy consumer facing startups of the type that HN is obsessed about. They typically focus on unglamorous but technically challenging problems of the kind that require deep expertise.
- timsally 13y agoAdd Tom Leighton (Akamai), Frans Kaashoek (Mazu Networks), Dawson Engler (Coverity), and maybe David Brumley (ForAllSecure) to that list. Profitable startups are not uncommon among professors in top departments.
- _delirium 13y agoSome more, fairly randomly chosen: Peter Norvig (USC->Berkeley->Google), Chris Lattner (Illinois->Apple, LLVM), Daniel J. Bernstein (Illinois, qmail/djbdns), Donald Knuth (Stanford, LaTeX), Hadley Wickham (Rice, ggplot2), the whole PLT Scheme/Racket team, etc.
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoJohn Whaley of Moka5 is somewhere here on Hacker News. From what I saw interning there it's a pretty healthy company.