this is great info! thank you sm! i have asked reddit, but i didn’t get much back, so thought i’d try cc, but berkeley time is a great resource to know 
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This has been a very quiet thread, but I wanted to post this link with Middle Class Scholarship updates, in case other families (like mine) are waiting for more information.
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Thank you for posting! Although we are not eligible for MCS, I am VERY happy to see the news that MCS awards will be retained at the same level as last year, as I know that the initial MCS awards this year were not sufficient to make UC affordable for some families. Hoping that this award level will continue to future years as well.
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Apparently being a teacher and a billionaire are not mutually exclusive. Maybe there is something deeper in the article, but I did just some speed reading and this is all I got.
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Ian Stoica was my son’s professor for his operating systems class and at one point he took a bunch of students including my son to review the original research paper that launched the idea of Databricks.
it’s not just Databricks - founders of many successful firms - Perplexity, Covariant and Open AI came from the research labs at Berkeley EECS. Many of the professors also have outside interests - for instance Pieter Abeel has a VC firm called AIX ventures.
I’d also add this is not just a Berkeley phenomenon. For instance I ran into a high flying AI start up called Snorkel AI that came out of a Stanford professors research lab. That company has raised hundreds of millions but the prof is still at Stanford
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