University

“If they want to do, have a career, particularly in Silicon Valley as entrepreneurs, I think it's totally useless.”

“I found that those four things tend to live in or around a university, or they live in or around some sort of central community that touches all of them. So accelerators serve this purpose on a micro scale, but really university is the biggest portion of this.”

“Come to our school, and for six weeks, we will teach you how to get jacked up On every system, process, model, for six weeks, nine to five, this is your job, and you pay 10,000 bucks. I would say that's more valuable than university, say, for teenagers.”

“So I think interestingly enough, maybe the next big startup and success story could be Someone who builds a new university or a new pedagogy even of how to get someone to go through a curriculum and find economic opportunity, ah, that's highly valuable.”

“I think going to university, going to college, that was a big mistake.”

“The VC money that we raise is not coming from fat cats. It is pension funds. It is university. It is teachers union. These are for our case, you know, so it is our responsibility. This is not like money that we just burn and then, you know, no, no, no blame.”

“I mean, you know, a university should not be taking positions on the matters of the day, whether the tax rate should be 47% or 45%. That's left to the partisan.”

“If you want to have a job that, where you make the most money now, you should, they shouldn't go to university.”

“In 90 plus cases of modern professions, you can study on your own, and you can do it in a fraction of the time.”

“I think studying business controversial opinion is like mostly useless. I think you have to do that by learning and you can, there's basically like 10 ideas in business. And if you learn those, you'll be pretty well covered.”

“It's based on a technique that we developed while we were still at the university.”

“And I have to say the summer internships probably had a much greater impact on my career and my life than the university.”

“I think in some ways the university is the worst place to do moral instruction now that it's no longer like a religious institution.”

“If you ask me, if I ever have the resources, the next university I will build is that you create your own major.”

“Obviously, I'm starting a university to compete with some of the top four-year colleges.”

“University is, is kind of a means to an end. I think, you know, I employ a lot of people that do have engineering degrees. Of course we need those. But I don't think it's necessarily the right path for everyone. And, you know, if you can reach your goals witho…”

“Unless you're a very clear track, I mean, everybody knows this, it's cliche, this one, but the re, the purpose of university is not the education, right? Like, you can get a better education not within the confines.”

“I do have a regret of not getting to go to university, and having that kind of knowledge vacation that so many people Got to have.”

“Don't stop uni, stop university, and start now.”

“And the university takes 50% of the overhead. So if you make five million dollars, the university takes 2.5 of it.”

“The best sort of university combines those two strands together. So, you know, the public, you know, public achievement, people who have lived lives in the public have a lot to teach those who are at a university.”

“Those are all degrees that are going to result in outstanding economic impact. That by itself creates a value base that would easily justify the funding for an entire university so that the softer programs, if you will, are carried by those who have a more tan…”

“If you're wondering why the museums you love and the publishing houses you love and the newspapers used to trust and, you know, the Hollywood, all of these things, if you want to understand why they are hollowed out, why they are no longer what they used to be…”

“By the time the student's graduating from university, the Lambda School student has three years of experience and has paid Lambda School off and is a quarter million dollars ahead, at least, of the university grad.”

“Often, and especially, you know, in different parts of the economic cycle, you have top-down focus, and you have government start to try to organize what's going on in the startup community, or you have academia or university in the city try to become the cent…”

“I think that the ideal role for a public sector or even for a university or other institution in a region that's trying to be innovative is to talk to the people who are innovating and say, what's, what are the obstacles and what can we do to help support you?…”

“The purpose of the university. It's not to create billion dollar startups. It's to have a pedagogical experience for their students”