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

Posted by yarapavan on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @02:48PM
from the ecorner.stanford.edu dept.

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=926

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Re:If You're So Smart, How Come You're Not Rich? [Hennessy i... by kakooljay on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @04:08PM (#867532)

"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

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Re:If You're So Smart, How Come You're Not Rich? [Hennessy i... by coconutrandom on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @03:15PM (#867429)

title has nothing to do with video.

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Re:If You're So Smart, How Come You're Not Rich? [Hennessy i... by timothychung on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @03:59PM (#867512)

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

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Re:If You're So Smart, How Come You're Not Rich? [Hennessy i... by neilc on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @04:33PM (#867579)

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.

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Re:If You're So Smart, How Come You're Not Rich? [Hennessy i... by timothychung on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @01:56AM (#880790)

Thanks for the background knowledge. Cheers. :-)

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