If You're So Smart, How Come You're Not Rich? [Hennessy in Video]

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by yarapavan • 17 years ago

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coconutrandom• 17 years ago

title has nothing to do with video.

timothychung2• 17 years ago

I think it is a question from the crowd that John Hennessy is trying answer.

neilc• 17 years ago

Given that Hennessy is the President of Stanford and that he founded a successful company (MIPS Inc, when went public and was then sold to SGI), Hennessy is surely pretty wealthy.

kakooljay• 17 years ago

"Hennessy... remarks that companies are great things, but they are missing most of what makes a university so appealing to its employees: the freshness and excitement of the students and the freedom to conduct one's own research."

That's why google (which cultivated a collegial environment) was able to attract so much talent. But maybe that's about to change: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=867491

If You're So Smart, How Come You're Not Rich? [Hennessy in Video]

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