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by jgrahamc 1116 days ago
I decided I did not want to be an academic and went to work for a small computer networking company. That led to a career in startups.
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That's somewhat modest of you! B^>
Well, you've heard of one of the startups and so you think "success" but you haven't heard of the other six startups and all the failure along the way. I joined Cloudflare after working for 19 years post my doctorate.
I've had a lot of startups fail, so I understand the survivor bias thing. Feel free to finance my next ideas in the queue! B^>