Or, you’re building a thing you can sell to others for a reasonable price, because it actually works.
This won’t get you a Stanford professorship. That’s something you can cry about from your mountain chalet or beachfront vacation home.
This won’t get you a Stanford professorship. That’s something you can cry about from your mountain chalet or beachfront vacation home.
Part of the meta-game of academia is that feedback timelines are long enough that you can play the “wrong” meta-game and still come out ahead. If you don’t want a professorship — or are willing to settle for a super cushy “professor of practice” as an early retirement non-profit thing to keep ya out of the house — then a PhD can be a good place to do hard tech pre-seed work.