Stanford University

“Stanford, you know, is become, it's become an entrepreneurial hotbed on a scale that you can't imagine. You know, there used to be this notion of an ivory tower, and that's so gone. People pass through on their way to their startup”

“The computer science major at Stanford is, is exploding in the sense that we are now the largest major on campus and it's continuing to grow.”

“It's kind of interesting that we're even the largest either largest or second largest major for women on campus. So if you literally count number of women, computer science is now either the largest or the second largest on campus.”

“It's one of, like, PageRank is, like, one of, like, 900 factors now that go into a Google search result. The other 899 happened after they left Stanford.”

“John Hennessy who, in addition to being a legendary theoretical computer scientist was also himself a former company founder. And so, and you know, maybe the best university president anybody's ever had. You know, that's worked very well.”

“Because he went on to become a very successful real estate developer and has donated what has to be, at this point, more than a billion dollars back to Stanford, personally. And there's, you know, a 150 buildings on the Stanford campus that he's paid for.”

“Basically, everything that is going to be a big deal in the next 30 years is in a lab somewhere, probably here in a lab at Stanford.”

“It's about 25 to 30% in undergraduate that we have women, and then this thing just goes down as you Oh, it goes down as you go higher up.”

“Any uncertainty in information that exists from the design phase gets multiplied in construction. It doesn't get simpler.”

“About 28% of the endowment vaporized in a six-month period.”

“100% of the people that they put through this program after six weeks had zero expressions of depression.”

“So the very first biohub, what we did, there were two kind of interesting things. One was, it was this collaboration between UCSF, Stanford, and Berkeley. And there are all these really smart people at all these different places who previously, I guess in theo…”

“Yeah, I think Peter Thiel in some sense is like, kind of hypocritical when he's like, don't go to college where he had Stanford undergrad, Stanford law school, he got all the badges, right?”