Ivy League
4 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 27, 2018 by Daniel Gross · said 22 times in 17 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Rory O'Driscoll (2), Jeff Lawson (2), Jason Citron (2), David Clark (2), Trae Stephens (1), Sarah Smith (1), Nick Mehta (1), Jordan Van Horn (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2024 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Jason Citron, Co-Founder/CEO @Discord: The Untold Story Behind Scaling to 200M Users | E1230 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- Jordan Van Horn: 3 Reasons Salespeople Fail; How to Make a Sales Playbook | 20VC #918 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Lessons Scaling Insight Partners to a $20BN Latest Fund, The Two Biggest Learnings on Price, How to Manage and Train Young People in Venture, Why Business Classrooms Do Not Work and How to Assess the Two Commodities in Life; Money and Time with Jeff
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Twilio's Jeff Lawson on What It Takes To Create a Tribe, How To Create Anti-Fragile Organisations Through Decentralised Decision-Making and Why Values Are Nice But Principles Are Better
- 20VC's Therapist Thursday: We Are Not All Crushing It All The Time So Let's Stop Pretending, Working Through Challenges of Self-Worth and Self-Doubt & How To Find Joy in the Striving with Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- 20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- 20VC: Why This Is Just The Start for Consumer Mobile, 3 Lessons China Taught About How To Invest Better In The US & How To Think About The Opportunity Cost of Capital Deployment with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
Everything said about Ivy League, oldest first
Aug 27, 2018 neutral
Aug 1, 2022
Apr 3, 2024 negative
Aug 29, 2026 negative
Reyes: Ivy League pedigree is barely a signal for competence
“I went to an Ivy League school. I learned firsthand that that is barely a signal for competence. There are plenty of idiots who went to Ivy League schools, and I think that the clearest signal for me that someone's done something great is that they have built …”