How To Go From Researcher to Founder

Some of the most successful companies in the world were created by founders with PhDs, including Google, Anthropic, Databricks, Together AI, and more. It's actually more common for academic-led startups to fail, because many of the skills you're rewarded for as a researcher can be antithetical, or at least orthogonal, to succeed as a founder.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of people, number, founder, including: But these are exceptions to the rule.

1. 01So today, I want to break down the 10 most important perspective shifts academics need to make in order to build a successful startup
2. 02A Stanford-style startup, on the other hand, starts with a single boring customer problem and iterates on it forever
3. 03A moment where the paper or test is sent off and you can finally rest