"The Path Is the Goal (in Honor of the Book by Chögyam Trungpa)
What do you do when all you want is to do research you really care about, but no one wants to fund it? This is the story of a real scientist, who definitely did not plan to be effectual, nor did he even want to be an entrepreneur. At his request, we have disguised his name and the name of the publicly traded company he built.

Clear Path
Asian immigrant Wu traveled to the United States as a student of metallurgical engineering. Although thriving as a scientist, he was not fluent in English. The problems he was interested in required large capital investment in laboratory equipment. Neither the university, nor later his employer, a large technology company in Silicon Valley, wanted to invest. All Wu wanted was his lab."