Stanford

“I love Peter Thiel's Monopoly lectures at Stanford. He's spot on.”

“By December, I had already made like a 150 grand paying, playing poker.”

“Stanford is one of the only research facilities in America that has a longitudinal patient data set that's Larger at scale, I think it's at least twelve million patient lives. The only larger data set is the VA, the Veterans Affairs, you know, of America.”

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

“This was a Stanford football game in 2013, and I had trouble raising the seed round. We made the decision to refund everyone that cost us over 40% of the bank account.”

“About a year ago, as an example, I realized there was a lot of talk about models being good at physical physics and chemistry, AI for science. And I was a visiting scientist at the applied Physics department at Stanford. And we started benchmarking these model…”

“Now, Stanford came up with the idea of a meta harness. It's a harness over other harnesses. It's the idea that like the that you can change the harness around a fixed model and see a six x performance gap on the same benchmark model.”

“About one-fourth of my entire Stanford class tried the early iterations of Grins before we launched.”

“So the business was doing like fifty million of revenue when I graduated.”

“I oftentimes go and do guest lectures at Stanford, and I always try to ask, like, raise your hand if you have an immediate family member that serves in the military. No one ever raises their hand.”

“The research from Stanford actually tells us some of these foundational skills you need to understand are inflation and compounding. They are two fundamental things that lots of people do not understand. And if they don't, that inequality will widen.”

“I think that Stanford did a study on AI optimism. They simply asked the question, do you think AIs can be more beneficial than harmful? Something like 80% of people in China said yes. In the U.S. It was in the thirties and it might be even lower now.”

“Well, I think people typically think like I went to Stanford. That's where all the top talent is. We have found that not necessarily to be true. And we have found community college, you know, the small Midwestern engineering school, like, because we're assessi…”

“At Stanford, they said that if you're disabled, you get more time on tests, and you can kind of be unproctored, and kind of... Accommodations. Right. So now, 50% of students at Stanford say they're disabled.”

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

“The Stanford researcher found that people remember stories, 22% more than statistics alone.”

“Stanford was actually forced in the 19 seventies to divest all of their military R and D and any R and D that touched the military into something called the Stanford Research Institute.”

“When I dropped out of Stanford and started the company, we didn't call it AI at all because of the negative connotations, but it was the first AI product to sell a billion dollars.”

“One of the causes for Zoom fatigue was the fact of seeing your self-view. It's not about seeing others. It's the fact that you see yourself.”

“Because if I'm MD Anderson, if I'm Stanford, any research hospital, any scientist in healthcare, you're an idiot if you publish it. You're an idiot if you patent it. Because it's immediately going to get absorbed into a large language model. And you've lost co…”

“Take CISA, which is the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency. No one's ever heard of it. It was created effectively to protect infrastructure from cyber attacks. In that era when Trump was present underground, They work on, under the guise of Russian d…”

“It's really hard to convince people to join you when you have no money. Like, I think people underestimate the difficulty. Because people are like, oh, you know, you drop out of Stanford, like, you know, it's, like, just everything falls in place. It's not exa…”

“That is the, of that 37 or thirty eight billion, a lot of that money was given by people who gave it very specific things, and you can only use that payout for very specific things. So those are big numbers, but they're, it's not as flexible as people think.”

“I just saw this morning that one of the recent Stanford grad students who worked on RL, they just started their company and they're worth five hundred million. It's like absolutely bonkers right now. It's just like no product, just three dudes, you know, sitti…”

“Oh, to be clear, they don't teach you anything, like anything, like if you see a paper coming out from even, you know, Stanford, they're probably the best school in AI if you had to choose. And it's not like they're learning how to do like multi-node distribut…”

“The first one is, hey, I'm a PhD student from Stanford, and I have a few questions. Do you mind helping? So that again really opens the other person to kind of to being open. They feel like they're not being sold to, or something like that. Then the other one …”

“And I'm proud to tell you that the end of six weeks, 97% of people had no symptoms whatsoever. Seven percent had symptoms, but they had lessened massively. But 17% had suicidal ideation coming in and coming out, and none did.”

“So, this January we came out with the, our contextual AI two point zero framework which where we worked with the umbrella and Stanford, and we released it in January where you know, we are automatically identifying the places where the robots are running.”

“We've been partnered with a really great group of students out of Stanford that are incredibly intelligent and thinking a lot about how to use their data science background applied to both the product-level data that we've been collecting and the project-level…”

“When I was a grad student at Stanford in the mid-eighties I thought that the big idea was to have a mouse that was controlled by your foot, so you keep your hands on the keyboard, and you could type and point at the same time. And I almost dropped out of schoo…”

“I sort of like to distinguish technologies between what I call inside out and outside in. And some inside out of things that sort of start with established institutions, like AI to some extent is like that, you know, the iPhone was like this. It came out of Ap…”

“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.”

“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…”

“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.”

“Of the, you know, law, banking, medicine, consulting. Those are like the four big tracks you have people had at Stanford in the, Probably in the late eighties when I was there, probably also in the early 2000 when you were there, maybe two thirds of the underg…”

“Cambridge is not that different to Stanford. You know, maybe a little bit smaller, maybe a bit less funded, but the quality of research that we're doing here is as good.”

“In 2020 when COVID broke out, Stanford basically, you know, encouraged Andrew to get out and start talking to media, and that's when Andrew and I reconnected.”

“We're seeing in the metrics that we use these validated instruments that we're reducing cognitive burden by, like, 60% within six weeks of a clinician using this, and clinician burnout per one survey that Stanford came up with, we reduced that by, like, 50% so…”

“It's much easier to concentrate talent in Israel than it is as like a Stanford spin out.”

“People who, you know, went to Stanford and did CS and did no, have no economics real footing or sociology or things like that, the pure CS people, they think of all these things as pure technology problems, and they're not. They're actually economics problems …”

“I decided because I was going to go to product management to a startup, I went from being a director of engineering to being an individual contributor product manager, taking a 40% pay cut because that's what you do when you go to a startup and the payout is i…”

“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…”

“Stanford had Club Nexus. Columbia had CU Community. Yale had Yale Station.”

“No one was teaching neural nets for NLP in the world in 2014 when I graduated, and I thought, man, I'm still not, I can't convince some of these older professors, they're so, like sort of prefer other methods and don't believe in neural nets, so I got to train…”

“The reason we were able to recruit a lot of the best people is we started with a bunch of the best people. So it's very chicken and egg. I, you know, from the chess world, from the math world, from Stanford computer science, from my friends who, you know, were…”

“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 …”

“If you grew up in the Bay Area, and you go to Stanford, and you graduate, and you never thought about starting a company, and there's a very negative signal on you as a founder.”

“No great entrepreneurs came out of Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, Went to McKinsey and that's where they made their first money.”

“If this kind of thing happens, like if your students or even your faculty, you know, go off and do something new and are successful in business, and then the, you know, the you know, the money that you'll get, the money that you'll get back in philanthropy is …”

“Reached out to the Dean of Stanford Med School, who was a pain specialist, and we funded him directly with consulting payments, and then made a donation to Stanford to his lab for four million dollars from opioid companies to study ethics and pain management.”

“We're living in a world where the value of a Harvard degree and a Stanford degree and is going down.”

“Like if I couldn't study algebra in middle school, if I couldn't study calculus by senior year, I couldn't have gotten into Stanford. I couldn't have studied computer science, and I never would have been able to participate in, like, what is the craziest thing…”

“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…”

“And you can see the scorecard here that GPT four Oh actually outperforms GPT four. And so this goes counter to some of the narrative that in order to get some of the performance improvements and speed improvements they got in four Oh, that they actually made t…”

“You can no longer say, well, you went to Harvard, you went to Brown, you went to Stanford, you know, you've got the right values to do a lot of business. It's going to be a thing where employers really need to dive into the culture of whether they want to hire…”

“So schools like Stanford, Harvey Mudd, they're actually using this with their own LLM.”

“When someone from Harvard, or MIT, or Stanford, they always are just there for the commercial, you know.”

“We get more applicants now in a year than Harvard, Stanford, and MIT combined.”

“What you know it is now is a place where people are walking around with fear to not say what they think. They're not challenging their ideas. That means they're not coming out as fully formed adults with the ability to critically think through problems and sol…”

“The largest one, Stanford, Harvard, Yale. I mean, these things are on the order of 30, 40, fifty billion dollars.”