Mike Miller left a career path toward academic particle physics - with faculty positions at MIT and UW - to co-found Cloudant, a database company acquired by IBM in 2014, then co-founded Liquid 2 Ventures with Joe Montana the following year.
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Earns undergraduate degrees in Physics and Philosophy at Michigan State, conducting research at the Cyclotron.
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Completes a Ph.D. in Particle Physics at Yale, followed by faculty positions at MIT and the University of Washington.
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Co-founds Cloudant, a Y Combinator-backed company that helped create the NoSQL/database-as-a-service market.
2014
Cloudant is acquired by IBM.
2015
Co-founds Liquid 2 Ventures with Joe Montana and Michael Ma.