Harvard

6 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Feb 15, 2023 by John Mack · across every show →

Everything said about Harvard, oldest first

Feb 15, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Early Morgan Stanley partners were almost exclusively Princeton, Yale, or Harvard alumni
“And it was a private partnership. I would say, of the 35 partners, 20 of them probably went to Princeton. And the rest of them probably went to Yale or Harvard.”
John Mack Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 9:49 How John Mack Saved Morgan Stanley & Transformed Wall Street · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 14, 2024 negative
Opinion
Michael: Elite university students fear speaking and lack critical thinking skills
“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…”
Emil Michael Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 5:24 Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 29, 2024 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Lonsdale: Paying Students for Good Grades Was Roland Fryer's Top Intervention
“It was to pay them for great grades. And the reason was, is it turned out that a lot of these poor communities, the kids don't actually care about their grades or their school because they think it doesn't matter.”
Joe Lonsdale Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 9:38 Ep 79: Bjorn Lomborg and the 12 Best Ideas to Help the World · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 2, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gil: Stanford, MIT, and Harvard founders created most recent startup value
“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…”
Elad Gil Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 21:50 Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
Apr 17, 2025 negative
Opinion
Thiel: Students at Harvard, Yale, and Stanford Are Completely Lost
“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.”
Peter Thiel Apr 17, 2025 ▶ 2:59 Tariffs, DOGE & Fixing America: Peter Thiel's Skeptic Solutions · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 28, 2025 negative
Opinion
Hoffman: Slashing university funding and barring foreign students would be catastrophic
“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,…”
Reid Hoffman Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 29:23 Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
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