Columbia University
also referred to as: columbia
6 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Ben Horowitz · said 56 times in 20 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2024 27 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
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- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2017 10 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
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Jul 15, 2017 positive
Horowitz: Smartphones provide better libraries than 1990s Ivy League universities
“Everybody who has a smartphone, which is pretty soon going to be everybody in the world, has the Library of Congress in their pocket. So that means a girl growing up in Bangladesh now has a better library than a student at Columbia or Harvard had 20 years ago.”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Horowitz: Elite higher education fails the majority of workforce-focused students
“I'm on the board of trustees at Columbia, and there are certainly people who are going to go to, like, an elite school and become a scholar, a PhD, and I think the system works reasonably well for them, but for, you know, the kind of bulk of the population who…”
Dec 30, 2019 positive
Jan 13, 2024 negative
Horowitz: Elite university extension programs are full-fee models targeting foreign students
“They're far larger than the actual university kind of college program. You know, and they all have them. Harvard has it, you know, Columbia, et cetera. And They are mainly foreign students. So it's mainly like Chinese students... These schools, everybody pays …”
Jan 13, 2024 negative
Feb 1, 2024