Austin and Reet, currently in their final year to their PhD degree, have credited the Commercialization Fellow program, the NSF I-Corp program, the Scale Up and Prototyping program, the CTAM (now IGNITE) program, the Praxis Center for Venture Development and other entrepreneurship platforms at Cornell for having fostered their interests in startups and creating more high-quality jobs in US. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/10/engineering-startups-harness-cornells-entrepreneurial-energy