Many founders start<\/span> their companies because they\u2019re looking to build a career around finding a solution to a problem or pain point. Scientists are no different, and yet, you don\u2019t see as many scientists becoming founders as you would engineers or operators.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s common to see biotech firms started by scientists and researchers, but many other fields have companies that utilize and base their work on research done by scientists who are unlikely to become entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

So why is it so common to see outsiders bringing research out of the lab and not the scientists themselves? Sure, some scientists would rather focus all of their time on research, but bringing the fruits of that work into the real world is generally the only way to apply them to the problems all that labor was meant to solve in the first place.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a complex knot to unravel. First off, there is the stigma in the startup ecosystem that scientists generally don\u2019t make for good founders. This opinion seems to largely exist because they often hail from academia, which can be a pretty isolated field with very different structures and nuances than startups or most businesses. That gives rise to the notion that they wouldn\u2019t have the skills needed for the job.<\/p>\n