Brad Feld

Back to Blog

Tony Stark Was In My Graduating Class at MIT

Nov 10, 2008

I was reading through Technology Review in the bathroom this morning and came across a quick piece on Iron Man that I missed during the movie.  Apparently Tony Stark was MIT Class of ’87.  Note the Brass Rat (not the same as the one I never wear.)

 

The article on the web goes on to mention my good friend John Underkoffler, who was the science and technology advisor for the movie (along with a number of other movies including Minority Report, The Hulk, and Aeon Flux.)  John is the founder / CTO of Oblong Industries, one of our Foundry Group investments.  Oblong will be unveiling itself later this month.

feld-jh-2

That’s me and John at my parents farm in Bells, Texas over 20 years ago.  He’s the real Tony Stark in my book.