Nice I like this, it makes me feel somewhat better about choosing to pursue graduate education (in engineering) over getting a job at a bigco in my field. I wil

Nice I like this, it makes me feel somewhat better about choosing to pursue graduate education (in engineering) over getting a job at a bigco in my field. I will certainly learn more fundamental concepts, and frankly, work on much more interesting technical problems. That being said, regarding having domain expertise on the furthering boundaries of a topic (presumed technical), I'm not sure if evidence suggests that this is the best way to go. Did this help any of AirBnB/Dropbox/Reddit? These are not "technical" companies, at least what got them started. Maybe I'm reading too much into how technical the domain expertise should be, though he did mention computer science in his fractal analogy. Perhaps I'm just having a tough time having faith that doing research on the forefront of computer vision will lead to good startup ideas.