Faraz Choudhury wanted to be an entrepreneur. He didn’t just want to be his own boss, but rather to launch the sort of company that would attract venture capitalists (VCs), one that would be a Very Big Deal.
“Starting a company, you need something that is very groundbreaking, very revolutionary,” he says. “VCs will tell you, don’t make anything that’s marginally better than what you have available today. A VC-backed company would have to have exponential growth. You need to 10X their investment.”
Choudhury thought he was in the right field for that: electrical and computer engineering. As a grad student, he worked in the lab of Professor Leon Shohet, along with Daniel Benjamin ’16, MS’17, PhD’21 and Josh Blatz MS’18, PhD’21. They were using plasma to make microchips better, faster, and more powerful. Computer chips are a promising line of work — they’re vital to the booming AI industry. And Choudhury was willing to be patient.
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