Princeton University, every mention

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▶ 12:34 David Rosenthal So after graduation from Blair, Jack goes on to college at Princeton.
▶ 12:48 David Rosenthal And while he's at Princeton, he becomes fascinated by
▶ 13:15 David Rosenthal So the next year during Jack's junior year at Princeton, he's
▶ 13:19 David Rosenthal Decided that he's going to major in economics or concentrate in Princeton's, you know, fancy terms, you know, majors, you have concentrations.
▶ 13:29 Ben Gilbert Every, every day I learn one more quirky little Princeton thing.
▶ 13:35 David Rosenthal I, of course, went to Princeton, so went through all this.
▶ 13:46 David Rosenthal So one of the hallmarks of Princeton is that every single undergraduate must write a senior thesis, which must be a unique piece of scholarly research in order to graduate.
▶ 27:25 David Rosenthal He wants to go to work in this new fund management industry, and he manages to get his A-grade senior thesis in front of another prestigious Princeton alum in Philadelphia named Walter Morgan, who had founded and was running another early…

▶ 5:42 David Rosenthal Just a very short train ride up from Princeton, New Jersey, as I know well from my time there, where indeed a group of about 25 or so Princeton students were up at Rutgers to visit a similarly sized group of Rutgers students.
▶ 6:54 David Rosenthal So now, why were these two groups of Princeton and Rutgers students so interested in playing this game?

▶ 4:22 David Rosenthal So you went to Princeton.
▶ 4:24 David Rosenthal I went to Princeton.
▶ 5:05 Michael Lewis So I thought you were gonna say, uh, that the, that the effect that the Princeton thesis had on, on acquired, I didn't think it was as specific as that, but I feel like when I'm listening to your episodes, I'm listening to someone who's…
▶ 11:10 David Rosenthal But if I'm honest with myself, I think I felt like a fraud as a VC because I'd never, but I went, I went to Princeton.
▶ 1:01:28 David Rosenthal For me, a critical, critical part of process, it goes back to writing a senior thesis at Princeton.
▶ 1:58:23 David Rosenthal No, no, I think like reading your books and, you know, uh, being a liberal arts, you know, major at Princeton for me.

▶ 3:55:13 David Rosenthal Two fun ones, two of Jenny and my friends from our Princeton undergrad days who are now doctors at big Epic sites.

▶ 35:41 David Rosenthal Princeton, where I went, certainly had these when I showed up on campus.
▶ 36:09 David Rosenthal And I think if I remember right, at Princeton at least, they would republish the book every year, you know, for your class, because some people would leave, some people would join, et cetera, et cetera.
▶ 41:39 David Rosenthal I'm pretty sure Princeton had one, too, when I was there, pre-Facebook.
▶ 1:35:02 Ben Gilbert In fact, Excel had limited partners drop out of this fund, who were LPs previously, including your beloved Princeton, including Harvard.

▶ 17:48 David Rosenthal He gets a job in Princeton, New Jersey, not at Princeton University, but at the Institute for Defense Analyses, which is a non-profit organization that consults exclusively for the U.S. government, specifically the Defense Department, and…
▶ 20:14 David Rosenthal Kind of the appeal of going there was, hey, it's the same thing as being a professor at MIT or Princeton or Harvard or whatever, except you're doing code breaking instead of teaching,
▶ 37:06 David Rosenthal But the other part of it too is he's given such leeway and Stony Brook is so different from the politics of an MIT or a Harvard or a Princeton.

▶ 1:04:40 David Rosenthal Yes, notoriously friendly and everywhere else, including Harvard, MIT, Princeton, blah, blah, blah, are notoriously unfriendly and hard to work with.

▶ 3:10:04 David Rosenthal Uh, Princeton had
▶ 3:10:57 David Senra And he has no guest lecturer at Princeton.
▶ 3:11:13 David Rosenthal He had taken the class when he was at Princeton, and the professor, like, liked him and kind of took a shine to him.
▶ 3:12:05 David Rosenthal Like, I'm gonna go, you know, I'm gonna go, like, hang at Terrace, like, if you want to come, Princeton has eating clubs, instead of, they do have fraternities, but like, one of them is Terrace, and, uh, Jenny was actually in Terrace, and,…

▶ 19:29 Ben Gilbert But basically, the College Space Club, Jeff was the head of that club, the president of the one, and maybe the founder of it at Princeton.
▶ 25:04 David Rosenthal Jeff, as you said, graduates high school as valedictorian, and like all great talented high school graduates, goes on to Princeton.
▶ 25:30 David Rosenthal While Jeff is studying computer science at Princeton, Brooke Shields, Michelle Obama, and Jeff Wilkie is also there at the same time.
▶ 35:45 David Rosenthal Princeton grad who joined the firm.

▶ 1:11:08 Anu Hariharan That thinks that the batch size has to be only, like, you know, Princeton probably has a fixed class size that doesn't grow.

▶ 42:55 David Rosenthal So in 2009, a Princeton computer science professor and also undergrad alum of Princeton, just like yours truly woo.
▶ 43:16 David Rosenthal Now the inspiration for this was actually a way old project from I think the eighties at Princeton called WordNet that was like classifying words.

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