Penn
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Sam Parr: 2% of admitted students at top Ivy Leagues used Crimson
“Something like two percent of the students admitted into Brown, Columbia, Harvard, and Penn last year were his clients.”
Portnoy: Penn completed the ESPN partnership without his involvement
“They did the ESPN deal without, without me being involved.”
Mollick: Penn grads raised more VC in 2022 than France and Germany
“More money went to graduates from Penn, from the school I teach at, and last time I checked in twenty-twenty-two than everybody in France and Germany put together.”
Duke: Premortems alone generally fail to change people's plans or behavior
“What you find with pre-mortems, this is actually work. I actually did this work with Marie Schweitzer and Linnea Gombe, who are both at Penn. Then when you have people do pre-mortems it generally doesn't actually change their plan very much, or it changed thei…”
Wessel: Starting a Business Has Become Ubiquitous Among US College Students
“Now I feel like it's a prerequisite to graduating from college in the U.S., or at least at Penn. It just seems like everyone's starting businesses which is funny, because it's not like I graduated so long ago.”
Wessel hacked a Penn hackathon database to scout a technical co-founder
“And what I ended up doing was I found my way, snuck my way into, I think in YC they would call it, they hacked your way into the database of every single person who signed up, where I could see their resume and all of their information. And you were not suppos…”