Harvard
14 statements across 10 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Ben Horowitz · across every show →
Everything said about Harvard, oldest first
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
Andreessen: A Harvard project pushes annual board re-elections on Fortune 500s
“For those of you who study this stuff, there's this, literally, it's this actually completely bizarre thing. There's an academic project at Harvard where literally like the class project is to go get like Fortune 500 company, company bylaws changed in order to…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Ries: Entrepreneurs can now rent the means of production to scale
“We are now living through a time where you can rent the means of production, which means that if you want to test an idea, if you want to start something in your dorm room at Harvard, You know, just because you started small doesn't necessarily mean it can't s…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 10, 2019 bearish
Jin: Top business schools like Harvard and Stanford face declining MBA applications
“The number of applications is shrinking across the board, and the institutions that historically were thought of as immune to this, so Harvard Stanford, GSB, Wharton, the top, top business schools, They're now experiencing this, too, where they're seeing year …”
Jan 10, 2019
Coolican: Edtech innovation will start with non-consumers before moving up-market
“I think, you know, and I don't know if this is always true, but I think probably you will see the innovation come from the bottom up, and you will see the innovation come where right now the alternative is like non-consumption, right? So it won't necessarily b…”
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 neutral
Jan 13, 2024 neutral
Horowitz: Tech companies no longer restrict engineering hiring to elite universities
“I think Facebook, you're on the board of Meta. They used to only hire people from Stanford and MIT, or I think, or Harvard, Stanford, MIT. Like they had like strict rules on them. Nobody has that role anymore. Like that role's gone. Like, I don't know any comp…”
Jan 23, 2024 neutral
Jan 23, 2024
Feb 1, 2024 neutral