Stanford University

“Literally almost all of these folks who are starting Benchmark, they get so angry that not only do they not invest in the fund, they start organizing against this young benchmark capital. They call up all of their peers, the other university endowments across …”

“I've invested in 350 companies. Like, maybe five percent of the founders went to Stanford.”

“Len and one of his grad students at the time at UCLA, like the next year, right after this has happened, this is all happening at the same time, they sent the first message on ARPANET ever, like the first Internet transmission ever from UCLA to Stanford.”

“I mean, literally, Phil Knight's Stanford paper is about arbitraging cheap labor from imported goods and selling into markets willing to pay higher prices.”

“And she told me that the first night of the weekend, so like the first event, the first time that they actually met, was at drinks at the British Bankers Club in Menlo Park.”

“As part of the tech transfer to spin it out of the university, they end up getting like one percent of the company or something like that.”

“At one point, they're using about half the bandwidth of the entire university to be serving out google.com pages.”

“He graduates high school at age 16, goes to the University of Maryland, gets his undergrad degree in both math and computer science in three years, graduates at age 19, and then, of course, gets into Stanford for his PhD.”

“He writes it in Java and it's like super buggy and basically doesn't work. So they ask one of their friends there at Stanford, a guy named Scott Hassan, to help them. Scott's a better coder than Larry and Sergey is. So he codes it up in Python and it actually …”

“By spring quarter of that year, Google, google.com, is doing 10,000 queries a day”