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		tlrobinson on Sept 23, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ten Years Later, A Third Google "Founder" Comes Ou... Sorry, but if you were really so instrumental in creating Google and didn't get any credit for it then you did something wrong, whether it was abandoning the somewhat risky startup life to pursue the less risky PhD, or whatever.

skolos on Sept 24, 2008 [–]

PhD is not less risky, it is just perceived this way by PhD students since they have too much contact with tenured professors.

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