I&#x27;m a UIUC alum.  The author is doing what UIUC typically does, which is try to take credit for the successes of their alumni when those alumni did it without the UIUC ecosystem. I like to call it the Andreessen Complex:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hack.vc&#x2F;tech-companies-started-by-university-of-illinois-alumni-6753327a0829" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hack.vc&#x2F;tech-companies-started-by-university-of-illi...</a><p>UIUC has historically done little to negative work in making their graduates successful beyond the diploma.  I don&#x27;t see much changing here except a lot of handwaving, throwing cash around, and grand announcements like UILabs which will make a lot of noise and smoke but eventually do very little toward the dream of being more like Stanford or MIT or Fraunhofer.<p><i>&quot;The list is still a work in progress but shows just how many great entrepreneurs were at one point roaming around in central Illinois&quot;</i><p>Sums it up right there.  They roamed until they roamed all the way to the west coast.  And that&#x27;s the eternal agony of the University of Illinois.