How it started
Two Stanford PhD students wanted to rank web pages by how many other pages linked to them. They built it on campus servers, hosted it in a dorm room, and named it after a very large number.
The lesson for your campus
A research question, taken seriously, can outgrow the university that hosted it.
Why every campus needs an Innovation-Hub
Why we are telling this story
The next company on a list like this one has not been founded yet. Right now it is a student in a lecture hall with an idea nobody has asked about, and no room to build it in. Innovation-Hub is that room: a permanent space inside your institution where students from every department explore, experiment, collaborate and prototype.