Stanford: A Wellspring of Innovation

Yet anoth­er way Stan­ford is chang­ing the world: here’s a list of com­pa­nies found­ed by mem­bers of the Stan­ford com­mu­ni­ty. Among them:

Hewlett-Packard
Cis­co Sys­tems
Sil­i­con Graph­ics
Sun Microsys­tems
Elec­tron­ic Arts
Yahoo!
EBay
Nvidia

Turns out that 40% of the rev­enue in Sil­i­con Val­ley is gen­er­at­ed by com­pa­nies that emerged from Stan­ford, and the employ­ees earned around 6.5 bil­lion dol­lars in 1999. Wow!

By the way, that 6.5 bil­lion dol­lars would work out to $650 mil­lion dol­lars in tithes. For com­par­ison’s sake, the Assem­blies of God gave $350 mil­lion in 2001.