Nathan Myhrvold
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Nathan Myhrvold, formerly Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft, is co-founder of Intellectual Ventures.
Myhrvold was educated in physics at UCLA (BSc, Masters) and Princeton (PhD) and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Cambridge working under Stephen Hawking for one year, but left to join a computer startup in Berkeley, California after his research into quantum gravity floundered[[Citing sources citation needed]]. The startup called Dynamical Systems was then purchased by Microsoft.
In addition to his business and scientific interests, he is a master French chef who has finished first and second in the world championship of barbecue in Memphis, Tennessee. He also works as an assistant chef at one of Seattle's leading French restaurants. He enjoys eating as much as he does cooking, and feels no shame in displaying his advanced appetite.
Myhrvold also attended Santa Monica College.
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