I usually pick up the business section of any paper I can find when I go to the gym. I can't just bike or run or read. I have to mix them. Well, I can't bike and run at the same time.

In today's San Jose Mercury News there was an article "Stanford still the golden goose of valley tech.

Yesterday there was a forum of 5 Billionaires or near billionaire veterans of the computer science department.

One was the former president of Sun Microsystems, Andy Bechtolsheim. Another was Jim Clark, who founded Silicon Graphics . David Shaw of the Wall Street investment fund D E SHAW was there as were David Filo and Jerry Yang, co-founders of Yahoo .

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