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Alum as well. The ones I know from that list personally fit that exactly.

Pete Koomen was a Google a few years before Optimizely (the post says he got his BS in '06, but that was his MS).

Dan Kador was at Salesforce for a while as well before Keen.io.

Absolutely, I wasn't trying to say that the University helped start these ventures. From what I see there hasn't been a lot of support for student entrepreneurs on campus historically, but that has greatly changed (a lot of the programs I mentioned are just a few years old).

Pete Koomen's degree was a typo on my part. I've updated the blog post to reflect the correct info.

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