Berkeley

“Last year we were able to show probably the first useful computation. These are quantum echoes results. It was a big enough deal made the cover of nature, which is great. Our teams are excited about that. What that showed was an actual useful computation for f…”

“Harvard and Berkeley did this study on what they call, ah, effort concealment, which is fascinating. Humans only see the visible 10% of someone's work. The remaining 90% is usually private, unshared, or hidden, which creates the illusion of this tiny little ic…”

“All the stuff you're learning at Berkeley about people are just going to inherently absorb American values is really just downstream from our military superiority.”

“Look, we straight up collected 25,000 dollars in 24 hours. We returned 12% within a week. Returned all the capital. Look, everyone was made whole and even more than their principal.”

“In retrospect, we should have pulled the plug, like, maybe taken the device out and said, hey, listen, sorry, like, you see the numbers going down. We really love to support you, but we also have a business to run.”

“There are researchers who are highly politically and ideologically motivated who have Control of the apparatus that is like, you know, sort of quote unquote science, I guess. And then you have real scientists, real mathematicians, real computer scientists at B…”

“You see them at Columbia, Harvard. There are these specific Berkeley, UCLA that are bastions of privileged kids for the most part. These are extremely elite institutions that typically Allow in kids that have been coached their entire lives to get into those s…”

“There's a wonderful study that came out from UCSF Berkeley and Stanford called, Are Entrepreneurs Touched with Fire? And it looked at the mental health of entrepreneurs and founders in Silicon Valley and found that a surprising 72% of founders report mental he…”

“Well, we, in three years, started with Berkeley saying, hey, we should, you know, really look into our built environment and clean up what we're doing. And three years later, we have 82 cities that have Follow in suit. That's affecting about thirty-two million…”

“She actually bought the name from this first location in Berkeley.”

“Berkeley is where I learned humility, and Stanford's where I learned entitlement which kind of angers both groups off, which is why it's the best Kind of joke, but I think it's, you need both of those to, I think, succeed in sort of entrepreneurship.”

“The amazing thing about that store was that over 50% of the customers that came to that store came from more than two hours away.”

“The renaissance in biology, probably the most important trend going on in our space right now, and UCSF, Berkeley, Stanford, and the ecosystem around here is just probably going to be really strong there for the next 10 years.”

“It's true.”

“What's so striking about the Stanford and Berkeley programs is those programs are completely separate from the business school.”

“The only energy bar really that was on the market at that time that so many cyclists were eating... It was Power Bar. And they were also from Berkeley, coincidentally.”

“When I ended up at Apple, I was working with, you know, all these kids coming out of Stanford and Berkeley that had a lot of theory, but couldn't actually do anything. You know, I'd say, hey, you know, we're doing 360 transactions per second to this MySQL data…”