From student to startup-how a PhD can boost budding businesses

摘要

What should an undergraduate student who's inspired to change the world do? Should they continue their education in a PhD or found a startup? I have recently done both-at the same time-and my experience suggests the combination is better than you might expect. I have just submitted my thesis in computational linguistics (the sub-field of artificial intelligence devoted to automatically understanding human language) at the University of Sydney. I am also a co-founder of Grok Learning, an education technology startup that aims to teach the world's kids to code. At first glance, there isn't much in common between a PhD and a startup.