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He's an engineer and graduate of MIT, one of the two toughest colleges in america. MIT and caltech. He's a businessman too.
en.wikipedia.org
Massie earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology In 1993, Massie and his wife founded a company, SensAble Devices Inc., that allowed users to feel digital objects that appeared on a screen.[10][11] He completed his bachelor's degree the same year and wrote his thesis, Design of a three-degree of freedom force-reflecting haptic interface.[12][13] In 1995, Massie won the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventors[7] and the $10,000 David and Lindsay Morgenthaler Grand Prize in the sixth annual MIT $10K Entrepreneurial Business Plan Competition.[14] In 1996, his company was reincorporated as SensAble Technologies, Inc., after partner Bill Aulet joined.[10] He raised $32 million of venture capital, employed 70 people, and obtained 24 patents during his time at the company,[15] which he sold in 2003.[11]
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