Press & Media
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2026
World Economic Forum · sole-author essay · June 2, 2026
The decisive ingredient in a high-functioning innovation economy isn't state spending or market freedom, it's the strength of the institutional layer between them: tech-transfer offices, university-industry programs, accelerators, founder-mentor networks. Argues that the U.S. (NSF cuts, Genesis Mission) and China ($138B state VC fund) are both wagering through institutional layers neither government is investing in. Draws on the Stanford and MIT alumni-impact studies, Project 985, ITRI / TSMC, and Tsinghua TusPark.
Bloomberg · Annie Bang · April 2026
On AI-era venture metrics, what ARR actually measures, how diligence is failing, and why founder claims need new institutional checks.
The Future of Everything podcast with Russ Altman · Stanford Engineering · February 2026
Long-form conversation on Stanford's institutional environment, the alumni economic-impact study, AI's effect on founder cognition, and how universities actually contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystems.
2025
Stanford Report · December 2025
On the long-running collaboration between Stanford GSB and the School of Engineering, and the entrepreneurship pipeline it has shaped.
Stanford Report · August 2025
Q&A on what the alumni-impact studies (MIT, Stanford, UVA) actually tell us about how universities produce founders, and what government investment in research does to that pipeline.
On Stanford, Silicon Valley, and the Innovation Virtuous Cycle
郝会DAILY interview series with Hao Yang (郝杨) · July 2025
Conversation on how Stanford and Silicon Valley grew up together, the PageRank licensing story, Lean Launchpad, tolerance for failure, and current openness questions around AI and immigration. Watch on Talks & Media →
Creative Distillation podcast (Episode 78) · CU Boulder Leeds School · March 2025
With Rob Hahn (founder of Avanti) on the algorithmic financing of online misinformation, AI-era venture diligence, and the institutional environment around founders.
Notre Dame Keough School of Global Affairs · March 2025
Panelist among AI developers and adopters at a Notre Dame workshop on AI's effects on workers and the policy interventions that could help them adapt.
Earlier coverage
Angel Invest Boston with Sal Daher · Episode 82
On the MIT / Ed Roberts lineage, NovoEd, and what makes ecosystems work.
Stanford APARC · 2021
Coverage of the SMJ paper with Yong Suk Lee, what STVP and the GSB Center for Entrepreneurial Studies actually do to alumni entrepreneurship rates.
Stanford FSI · 2018
Q&A on the Research Policy paper on the entrepreneurship gap between Asian American and non-American Asian alumni, and the intergenerational persistence of entrepreneurship.
Darden Report Online · 2014
Coverage of the UVA alumni-impact study with Lenox, King, and Mehedi, the third volume in the alumni-impact trilogy after MIT (2009) and Stanford (2012).
Stanford Engineering · 2013
On the SMJ founding-team composition paper with David Hsu and Ed Roberts.
Stanford Engineering · 2012
Launch coverage of the Stanford Innovation Survey with William F. Miller.
Forbes · Peter Cohan · November 2012
Press coverage of the Stanford Innovation Survey.
MIT News · February 2009
Launch coverage of the MIT alumni-impact study with Edward B. Roberts, the methodological forerunner of the Stanford and UVA studies.
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