My niece is one of them.

Spent years trying to stay. Top of her class, excellent researcher, published loads.

But she'd end up randomly unfunded, lose resources or students right and left, get written out of articles and so on.

When she got an offer to Draper Labs she agonized but went.

Never looked back. Best decision of her life.

Doing more good, faster, than she ever could have in academia.