In commenting on two special issues from History and Technology and Management and Organizational History, this essay advances several themes about the current scholarship on academic entrepreneurship.First, as scholars continue to investigate academic entrepreneurship, they will need to pay attention to both what the academics are pitching but also the businesspeople who are catching and integrating that knowledge into products and enterprises. Second, while we tend to imagine entrepreneurs as "lone wolves," entrepreneurship is actually a team sport in which academic entrepreneurs engage with a variety of stakeholders in order to create long-lasting institutions. And third, scholars should be mindful of how the actions of academic entrepreneurs often reify selected values from their culture and that their actions can have both positive and negative consequences.This last point is especially important as we draw lessons from historical cases in order to educate the next generation of academic entrepreneurs-those scientists and engineers who will connect new discoveries with the most pressing needs of humanity.