Ivy League

“I went to an Ivy League school. I learned firsthand that that is barely a signal for competence. There are plenty of idiots who went to Ivy League schools, and I think that the clearest signal for me that someone's done something great is that they have built …”

“We were the first Ivy League to bring the SAT back at Dartmouth, and many of our peers followed”

“At my inauguration two years ago, I just finished my second year, and I'm the third longest serving Ivy president right now.”

“So I would be very wary about sending my kid right now to an Ivy League school that's been all in there, and just talking with faculty at those places and people that have recently come from them, it just kind of reinforces.”

“Well, I also think because of what's going on in the world, there's a lot of people looking for other schools as well. So they're just like, I don't want to go to the Ivy Leagues, as it turns out, because there's a cohort that might not, yeah, I want to transf…”

“The strategy that got them to this school, that got them the meta job, that got them the Ivy league degree. Is not going to be the strategy that actually gets them to be successful as a startup founder.”

“They're the biggest brands and they're not new brands. They're old brands. And we've seen that these old brands depreciate over time and people read way too much into them.”

“It turns out that like, you just, it's basically impossible to get into good schools if your guidance counselor doesn't know all of the admissions officers at the Ivy league schools or whatever.”

“So Thiel fellowship is one, which is a program started by Peter Thiel, where he gives a 100,000 dollars to 20 people earlier. It used to be age limitation under the age of 20. Acceptance rates are lower than Ivy leagues, but there's one condition. You have to …”

“I expect that trend across the IVs to go way up. I expect Contributions to go down. I expect governments to ratchet down their spending in those schools, and I expect some folks to try to take away their nonprofit status.”

“This feels like it can be a great first cash flowing business to create. Do I think this is going to be a massive business? No, I don't. But I don't think you have to raise money for this business.”

“I also don't have an MBA. I don't have an Ivy League education”

“Because fundamentally what we want to do is we want to build something that has the real benefits of the Ivy League, which is not, in my opinion, the curriculum. It is the community and the network.”

“There are huge exceptions to this rule, but I would say certainly a majority of the allocators would love to end their careers as a CIO of an Ivy League endowment, and they will make, take creative paths to go there.”

“We've had 8000 Ivy League students sign up for the platform. I mean, over 10% of Ivy League undergrads have their resumes on Ripple at this point.”

“LinkedIn only has about three to five percent of Ivy League resumes on their platform.”