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There is a type of professor that's exactly like a VC. The guy who wrangles a team of postdocs writing grant applications, farms out the funding to students and postdocs for them to do the actual work, and then puts his name on the resulting papers.

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> There is a type of professor that's exactly like a VC.

The vast majority of professors, I'd say, are like that.