Stanford

“One of the key factors that sets Stanford apart is, is proximity to Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay area in general, and the density of successful technology companies as well as startups that that have been built or, and being built in the area, as w…”

“Academically, I would say that CMU is absolutely at par, and if not, maybe in some cases, more rigorous than Stanford.”

“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…”

“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.”

“At Stanford, the engineering program was a weed-out program in a pretty aggressive culture, where they made a point to tell all of the students that, you know, they're really trying to weed out the weak and have only the strong survive”

“Silicon Valley, the actual geographical Silicon Valley, and basically San Francisco, and, you know, the area between San Francisco and Stanford is, I think, less important than it's ever been for tech and for innovation.”

“The renaissance in biology, probably the most important trend going on in our space right now, and UCSF, Berkeley, Stanford, and the ecosystem around here is just probably going to be really strong there for the next 10 years.”

“Today, every senior at Stanford knows what a VC is, but back then it wasn't really an industry that was accessible to young people.”

“Watching the awesome Paul Haygarty iOS development lectures through Stanford, which were available for free. You could watch them at 1.5 X or two X. That's how I learned iOS development basically from first principles”

“Exceptional talent, like, Mozart-level brilliant, exceptional talent is very, very rare in the world, but it's evenly distributed, and, but opportunity isn't, and so it is bad for the world that so much of the opportunity for crazy, exceptionally talented, cre…”

“So yeah, of course, like the kids coming out of Stanford who like have this, like, I want to be Elon Musk thing. Like, I'm not gonna fund those people, right? Like, you know, every once in a while, I'll miss one because like, I love the founders fund guys. The…”

“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…”

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

“If you grew up in the Bay Area, and you go to Stanford, and you graduate, and you never thought about starting a company, and there's a very negative signal on you as a founder.”

“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 …”

“Cambridge is not that different to Stanford. You know, maybe a little bit smaller, maybe a bit less funded, but the quality of research that we're doing here is as good.”

“About a year ago, as an example, I realized there was a lot of talk about models being good at physical physics and chemistry, AI for science. And I was a visiting scientist at the applied Physics department at Stanford. And we started benchmarking these model…”