Harvard

“So how do you take, like, Harvard meets MTV? That was, like, Our thesis from, like, day one.”

“One of our first hires on that realm was Nathan Rollins, who I think he started working in the Baker lab at 14. Graduated from Harvard at like 18 and got his PhD by like 21 or something like this in the Marx lab.”

“Harvard saying that now, 41% of their book is now privates.”

“IIT is harder to get into than Harvard. Then Stanford's a harder, harder to get into than any U S college.”

“Resumes and history has so little correlation to good and a fit. There's almost no correlation. And it used to be that if you worked at some of these big companies, you're like, There's a pretty high indicator that you might continue to have like a certain out…”

“What I really love about Harvard is that the professors really love their subjects. You know, and the, as far as you go along, it becomes less about their personal grind with politics, because they will every, you literally will do math, and they'll start brin…”

“And over this 30 year period, the women who were labeled as more optimistic, not pessimistic, they lived like 11 to 20% longer than the negative communicating women.”

“80% of people at Harvard get A's now.”

“The Dan Gilbert, my colleague at Harvard, who's a visionary social psychologist, he's done boredom experiments, where he puts people in a room in a chair for 15 minutes with nothing to do and nothing to look at, nothing to listen to, and the only choice they h…”

“So Harvard psychologist Matthew Killingsworth tracked what people were actually thinking during their daily lives. So we use an iPhone app, and it pinged them at these random intervals. What did the data say? People's minds were wondering 47% of the time. So t…”

“Three years ago, before the current unpleasantness and the venture capital green business, we were number zero on the Cambridge Associates database, which is their code for number one. On a ten-year basis, we were beating Harvard and Yale and Princeton with ou…”

“All these initiatives at Harvard lead to spinning out these firms. You think about Adage, Highfields, Convexity, Charles Bank. Now you go from them being internal paying them that to them being external in paying them one and a half and 20. And pause some of t…”

“The loss to Harvard by not investing in a sector of oil and gas over the last eight, 10 years is very meaningful because it was a target rich environment for returns that go to support the financial aid for students.”

“What Harvard shows us is that this dominance behavior shows that people who display low emotional reactivity and high certainty are perceived as higher status, even when they're wrong.”

“I've had no less than 40 of those people reach back out to me over the years wanting to come back to OpenAI.”

“We accept a lower percentage of applicants than Harvard does, so Harvard accepts about three and a half percent, and we are Below that, which puts us in a pretty privileged position that I take very seriously.”

“And so Harvard research shows you don't actually have to agree with somebody to build trust. You just have to share roughly equal speaking time.”

“The dean said he could get Bernie into Harvard. Then came the catch. It would cost 10,000 dollars. Harvard has a Jewish quota, the dean explained. The money ensures you get one of the spots.”

“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…”

“I actually fund a research lab in Buffalo, and I'm, you know, finding a lot of research, actually doing something with Harvard at the moment on mitochondrial transplants”

“Harvard has published an article that says AI tutors are better than Harvard teachers.”

“We currently have about 4200 PhD scientists at Lilly. By the way, it's about the same as MIT and Harvard combined.”

“I don't think Bill Gates would have dropped out of Harvard without Paul Allen.”

“There's a lot of, in the news, right, you know and almost like Harvard and Yale having these significant liquidity challenges, you know, because of, Whatever political environment that we may be in, and so, which means that they are trying to offload a lot of …”

“So, for example, you could do the current way of how you're attacking Harvard and say, I'm gonna withdraw funding, I'm going to disallow international students for coming, I'm gonna, like, do a whole bunch of other things which are gonna cause a lot of damage,…”

“The Trump administration has frozen 2.2 billion in grants to Harvard. They have frozen a billion in funding to Cornell. Seven hundred ninety million to Northwestern. They're looking at Johns Hopkins. 3.3 billion.”

“For browser base, we've really invested a lot into our customer engineering team and they're not traditional like CS people that you might find on the street. Like they're actually the most educated people at browser base. Like one went to Columbia, they went …”

“Although we see in the market that Yale and Harvard are selling, this is not their first sale. It's just actually a return to them selling.”

“He is in, he's in my son's class at Harvard. He dropped out of Harvard with two classes left.”

“We went, my team went back and we looked at where do all the startup founders come out of school-wise, and three schools dominate by far in terms of big outside outcomes. Stanford is number one by far, and then MIT and Harvard.”

“Those are the LP of choice for the small early innovative funds. It's not a great trend because, you know, if you're raising a billion, you've long since stopped talking to Harvard in a meaningful way. You're actually talking to pick your sovereign wealth fund…”

“What makes, I almost said a phrase, what, one of the things that makes the United States stand out is the quality of our education system at a higher level. So people come here from all over the world to go to Harvard and to go to Stanford and to go to whereve…”

“So at Harvard, you know what the administrative overhead was up until Feb. 15th? 69%.”

“It was a big achievement in a way for them to, for students to get into, you know, elite colleges like Yale or Harvard or Stanford. But they're completely lost once they're there.”

“The harder you work at something, the more opportunities you have to fool yourself. So if you're very smart and you have a one 40 IQ and you went to Harvard and you work at Goldman Sachs and you spend six months doing due diligence on this deal, you are going …”

“Harvard last year implemented their first ever remedial math because there are people coming in that don't know algebra because they dropped the admission standards.”

“The number of degrees awarded, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, probably hasn't changed very much since the 19 fifties.”

“Harvard psychology professor Dr. Richard Hackman actually found that when a team was called a family, it reduces constructive conflict and challenge and lowers the profits of the business.”

“In college, John studied Arabic and Farsi, preparing for a career leading a multinational oil company. After getting his undergraduate degree at Harvard, John attended business school, striking up connections that would help him guide the company.”

“Most people think that they want to learn tactics or tools I think the best way to learn is case studies. That's why Harvard, for instance, has the biggest library in the world of business case studies. Because once you've seen somebody else's playbook, you ca…”

“Like most of these decisions, you just make them completely emotionally, and I just knew I wanted to work with my best friends.”

“Harvard did a study where they actually found no market increase in performance when they landed equity to individuals.”

“So when I was in college, I started working on the newspaper there and got just, like, really into it and spent all my time at the newspaper, didn't go to class, and they didn't like that very much so I ended up getting kicked out and then came back and gradua…”

“Being a Harvard dropout is a stronger signal than being a Harvard graduate. There's all these things that sound silly, but actually end up being true, because if you're the type of person who can get into Harvard and that has enough conviction and an idea to d…”

“Enrollment has been flat over the last 20 years. Faculty growth has been modest, you know, growing at half a percent, but administration growth has grown by 40% in 20 years.”

“He says, the operating margin would be a -40% without distributions from its endowment.”

“Like, I think there was only what was it? Like, there was one degree recipient in twenty-twenty-three in African-American studies. And 57 faculty.”

“Somebody on my team actually went back and asked what are all, There are common schools that all the founders of the biggest companies went to, or the last decade, for example, right? And there's basically three schools that are like a huge chunk of the overal…”

“So Harvard, fifty-four billion dollars in endowment. It's grown its endowment 4000% in the last 30 or 40 years, up forty-fold. It's grown its freshman class size four percent. So it admits 1500 kids on 55,000 applicants.”

“The IT department at Harvard had been promising for years and talking about how they were going to build a digital version of the Harvard Facebook.”

“Within the first 24 hours, 650 people join.”

“Within two weeks, over half of the entire undergraduate population is active on Facebook.”

“Mark would actually say later that Bill saying that At the event was part of what got him comfortable doing the same thing.”

“Something like two percent of the students admitted into Brown, Columbia, Harvard, and Penn last year were his clients.”

“They said that like, 25% of people going to Harvard this year, they had one of these, like, tutors, and then it goes up even higher that if your parents have a household income of at least half a million dollars, half of them use these types of tutors”

“Investors, they, especially in big funds you usually start your conversation not with, like, partners or mentioned partners, but with analysts or with principles. And this people usually have profile kind of Graduated in Harvard, MBA in Stanford, or graduated …”

“Professor Gerald Mand at Harvard calculates that obesity and food caused illnesses caused 680,000 deaths every year in the United States.”

“I'm not sure Harvard is really known for anything other than for being quote unquote elite, but even that's questionable now.”

“I mean, I think probably Virginia Tech is better than Harvard. And the reason is because they're less infected with the whole woke DEI ideology that now pervades these like top schools.”

“We have tens of thousands of people reading our weekly newsletter, which is kind of the axios of Harvard for what's going on and hopefully how to fix it.”