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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

It was all technical. So I went from San Diego to LA to Miami to the south of France. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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My engineering career-as a researcher at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs, before I started Flarion-had been in communications and information theory, so I’d expected to stay involved in those technologies. So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013.