Motwani and the Importance of Academic Mentorship | Ask a VC with Ann Miura-Ko
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Channel: TechCrunch · 2013 · Science & Technology
Floodgate's co-founding partner Ann Miura-Ko and I chatted about her role at Stanford, where she is a lecturer in the school of engineering and received a Ph.D. focused on mathematical modeling of computer security. Miura-Ko recalled how impactful and important the late Rajeev Motwani, a Stanford professor of computer science, was to Ph.D. students who wanted to found companies based on their research. As she explains, Motwani served as a mentor and advisor for Larry Page and Sergey Brin during the formative years of Google. Subscribe to TechCrunch today: http://goo.gl/eg167
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