The situation where Apache Spark was born,UC Berkeley’s AMPLab has not just created a major open source software platform, it’s spun out more than its share of ground-breaking companies (full disclosure: a16z has invested in three of them).
So how did they accumulate there? How has open source and the AMPLab approach reduced the friction between student and faculty ideas and launching them into the real world? MORE
Source: a16z.com