At the Workshop on Features at the LAGB 2007 conference in London earlier this month, I met Ron Kaplan in person and he told me about the startup Powerset that he's involved in. It was enough of a clash of worlds that I was talking entrepreneurship at an academic conference, but then this week they were announced as one of the TechCrunch40.
It's not that often that these two facets of my life intersect.
Congrats, Ron!