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Also highly relevant to why 165 University would be lucky: downtown Palo Alto is within walking distance from "the quad" on Stanford campus (just down Palm Drive).

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nostrademons, you have a terrific memory and you are right. But, this particular thread calls for Silicon Valley. Let the poor school have it's moment in the SUN :-)

Actually, I just looked at the "famous alumni" lists on Wikipedia and filtered for a.) companies that we've heard of where b.) the founder's MIT degree was somewhat relevant to the company. There was some fascinating...TIL that Campbell Soup took off through the skills of an MIT-trained chemist who invented condensed soup, and that the National Enquirer was turned into a tabloid by an MIT-trained engineer who had worked for the CIA's psychological warfare unit. I can just see the conspiracy theories fly on that one.

Definitely, MIT has spun off some great companies to be sure. What caught my attention the most was Campbell's soup - thanks for that share. Wouldn't have ever guessed that.

Wow that is pretty incredible to hear the story of the National Enquirer. I just thought it was where Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith got their leads for hunting down aliens!

Underwood went to MIT to solve their problems with canning and the result was making the process scientific and safe and the birth of food science and technology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Underwood_Company#Invol...

MIT's Food and Nutrition department was very successful until it became Applied Biology and committed the sin of raising more money than the Chemistry and Biology departments, at which point administrators who were professors in those departments figuratively killed it in the dead of night (although recently another Applied Biology department was evidently started).

I think you mean "let the poor school have its moment in the ORACLE". :-)

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