The New York Times interviews eight startup veterans on the “sell vs. remain independent” decision, including UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni:
“Oren Etzioni caught the start-up bug so many times while working as a professor of computer science at the University of Washington that it seems he will never shake it. All four of the start-ups he has helped found have been acquired, the most recent ones by eBay and Microsoft …”
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