14% of career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a company

A move is a person starting at a new organization. This post counts moves. It includes positions taken while the person kept an earlier one. It counts decades with 100 or more moves, from the 1970s on. The 2020s are not complete yet.

In the 1970s, 2% of moves went from a university to a company. In the 2020s so far, the share is 14%. The highest share is in the 2010s, at 15%.

The 2020s have 143 moves from a university to a company and 80 moves from a company to a university.

Share of moves from a university to a company

1. 1970s2%3 of 122 moves
2. 1980s11%36 of 319 moves
3. 1990s13%77 of 599 moves
4. 2000s9%92 of 1,017 moves
5. 2010s15%224 of 1,532 moves
6. 2020s14%143 of 1,055 moves

Companies people joined from universities in the 2020s

This list counts people, once for each company.

1. Google17Alex Hanna, Andrew K. McCallum, David C. Parkes, Dileep George, Isabelle Guyon, Jason Wei, Kaiming He, Kate Larson, Leonidas Guibas, Michal Irani, Milind Tambe, Mirella Lapata, Mustafa Haiderbhai, Peter L Bartlett, Richard Sutton, Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux and Tim Rocktäschel
2. Amazon15Allie K. Miller, Barbara Plank, Bernhard Schölkopf, Carmelo Sferrazza, Dan Roth, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Gérard G. Medioni, Kathleen R. McKeown, Meng Wang, Michael Kearns, Mohit Bansal, Pieter Abbeel, Pietro Perona, René Vidal and Thomas Brox
3. Meta10Aditya Grover, Dieuwke Hupkes, Edmond Boyer, Jakob Verbeek, Mona Diab, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sayash Kapoor, Surya Ganguli, Tamara Berg and Tina Huang
4. OpenAI5Aravind Srinivas, Helen Toner, Ilge Akkaya, Jade Leung and Leopold Aschenbrenner
5. NVIDIA4Eric Heiden, Heng Yang, Pascale Fung and Yashraj S Narang
6. Cohere3Edward Grefenstette, Patrick Lewis and Sebastian Ruder
7. Microsoft3Cecilia Clementi, Satya Nadella and Torsten Hoefler

The post on how people move between universities and companies shows all decades and every kind of move.