1963
Andy Grove earned a PhD in chemical engineering at UC Berkeley, graduating in 1963, and then joined Fairchild Semiconductor.
“He gets his PhD in chemical engineering at UC Berkeley. Graduates in 1963”
Topic
University of California, Berkeley
8 facts from 8 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2009
Ali Ghodsi said he came to the United States in 2009 and worked in the AMP Lab at UC Berkeley.
“I came to United States in 2009 at UC Berkeley, not far away from here. And, uh, I was in a AI lab, it was called AMP lab”
Undated
Steve Blank was in his first or second year teaching a Berkeley class on customer development when Eric Ries and his co-founder audited it.
“We were in the very first or second year he was teaching what he called customer development at Berkeley.”
Undated
Matt Walker says a UC Berkeley study by Alison Harvey found counting sheep made falling asleep harder.
“Alison Harvey, and they found that counting sheep actually made it harder to fall asleep.”
Undated
Matthew Walker says a UC Berkeley study by Allison Harvey found that mentally walking a familiar route in detail halved the time it took people to fall asleep, while counting sheep slowed it.
“sure enough, people fall asleep in about 50% less time, half the time it takes.”
Undated
Michael Pollan and Tim Ferriss partnered on a psychedelic journalism fellowship at UC Berkeley, funded by Ferriss's foundation.
“Michael Pollan and I partnered on this, and my foundation funded it.”
Undated
Kozyrkov said her PhD advisor at North Carolina State accepted a job at Berkeley where he could not bring his students.
“my advisor, this was at North Carolina State, my advisor had just taken an offer at Berkeley, where he could not bring any of his students along with him.”
Undated
Alex Honnold says he dropped out of the University of California, Berkeley after one year, after he started climbing at Indian Rock instead of going to class.
“that's why I dropped out after 1 year of Berkeley”
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