A Conversation with William Gould

Abstract

William Gould is President of StataCorp. He was born in Burbank, California, on January 21, 1952. He received a B.A. in economics from UCLA in 1974 and a C. Phil. in economics from UCLA in 1977, after initially majoring in physics and then engineering. He studied economics in the Ph.D. program at UCLA and was simultaneously a Research Fellow at The Rand Corporation. He did not turn in his dissertation in labor economics before becoming a Senior Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Stanford, California, in 1977. In 1979, he become a Senior Economist at Unicon Research Corporation in Los Angeles, a company that he helped to found. He cofounded and served as Vice-President of Computing Resource Center in 1982, the company that went on to develop Stata. Bill became President of CRC in 1990 and, in 1993, CRC was renamed StataCorp.