Stanford

“The currency in industry is, is money or financial, and the currency in academia is credit. And it just leads to interesting incentives. There's a lot of competition. People aren't kind of rowing the same direction all the time. You're trying to take credit ma…”

“You probably heard where some of my friends and I with Neil Ferguson and Barry Weiss are trying to create a competitor to Stanford now in Austin here.”

“There's so much wealth in this country. It's actually kind of amazing that this is the first time someone in a while since Stanford or Duke or something that somebody ambitiously is trying to start a new.”

“Berkeley is where I learned humility, and Stanford's where I learned entitlement which kind of angers both groups off, which is why it's the best Kind of joke, but I think it's, you need both of those to, I think, succeed in sort of entrepreneurship.”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

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