Harvard

“Time and time again, we've seen funds kind of get attention and get, you know, kind of wildly oversubscribed only because LPs are demonstrating lemming-like behavior. And, you know, there's a favorite bell cow like, you know, Yale or Harvard or Stanford that t…”

“This is where I do think people and in my industry can be simplistic in their thinking. And they, in some ways it's like being safe. No one's going to look at you funny for investing in a company. That's a young guy out of YC with a hoodie that dropped out of …”

“We have about 90 designers that have gone through that program, 4500 designers have applied for it, so it kind of has a tougher acceptance, right, than Stanford or Harvard.”

“They first launched in Harvard, and there was a lot of craze about the app. A lot of schools demanded that Facebook be available in those schools, yet they did not launch it for almost 18 months, and the simple reason being, the one metric they measured was ho…”

“I read something like 500 medical papers while I was in school.”

“I launched that on Valentine's Day of 1999 at Harvard, and within one week, a quarter of all the students at Harvard had signed up for it.”

“I looked down the list, and the highest paying job was Bain & Company.”

“A lot of these huge pools of capital you're talking about, especially international, their annual returns are terrible. They're not at the Harvard or Yale or Stanford level. They're not buying like swaths of forests in Scandinavia and weird assets and only inv…”

“That was a total fallacy. Is, if you, the thing is that if you are not happy now, you will never be happy. You know, they have this study where they ask students at Harvard, so, do you have a good life? It's just, no, I haven't got a particularly good life jus…”

“There's now more administrators at Yale than there are students, and almost as many at Harvard”

“No great entrepreneurs came out of Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, Went to McKinsey and that's where they made their first money.”

“Investors, they, especially in big funds you usually start your conversation not with, like, partners or mentioned partners, but with analysts or with principles. And this people usually have profile kind of Graduated in Harvard, MBA in Stanford, or graduated …”

“Like most of these decisions, you just make them completely emotionally, and I just knew I wanted to work with my best friends.”

“Those are the LP of choice for the small early innovative funds. It's not a great trend because, you know, if you're raising a billion, you've long since stopped talking to Harvard in a meaningful way. You're actually talking to pick your sovereign wealth fund…”

“Harvard saying that now, 41% of their book is now privates.”