In 2018, Cornell Tech—a graduate school campus of the Ivy League university—was believed to have been a strong factor for Amazon deciding to bring a new headquarters to New York City.
At the time, the school boasted of the creation and investment in more than 50 start-up companies in which over $60 million in investment was raised and hundreds of jobs were created, according to the New York Times.
While the Amazon headquarters was later nixed because of backlash from local politicians, Cornell Tech is continuing to leave its mark on the region—and the world.
