What kind of education do you need to build a great tech company? || Startups Weekly

Startups Weekly: What kind of education do you need to build a great tech company? Easy start-up ideas have all been made — those that just required some homebrew hardware hacking or PHP dorm-room coding to get it off the ground. You may need several advanced technical degrees to achieve something significant these days. At least that's what Danny Crichton is gloomy about this week, in an essay entitled "Today's Two Ph.D. Problem of Startups." Here's a new example: Take synthetic biology and the future of pharmaceuticals, please. There is a popular and very well-funded thesis on crossing machine learning and biology/medicine together to inspire the next generation of pharmaceutical and clinical treatments. The datasets are there, the patients are ready to buy, and the old ways of finding new candidates for disease treatment look positively ancient against the more deliberate and automated approach of modern algorithms. Moving the needle even slig...