University professors rarely do one thing properly: supervising a group well. Almost all of them are bad at what they do—some worse than others.

You—who don’t have management in your nature; you—who don’t have invention or creativity in your nature and got here mostly by reading and writing a few papers; you—whose motto was being a suck up to your advisor , became a professor through their recommendation and connections—why do you go and start a company?

Why do you think becoming a professor in some isolated, enchanted place—where your entire job is controlling a bunch of powerless kids—is supposed to inspire you to run a company?

You’re going to fail.