Stanford
5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Apr 11, 2017 by Naval Ravikant · across every show →
Everything said about Stanford, oldest first
Apr 11, 2017 negative
Ravikant: Claims that habits cannot be broken are BS
“I reject a lot of the stuff that's being peddled around today about how you perform and break habits. I know there's this very popular book, one that I even recommended, which talks about the science behind habits. And one of its depressing conclusions, I thin…”
Jul 11, 2018 negative
MacAskill: Harvard and Stanford should spend their endowments rather than fundraising
“It kind of baffles me that organizations, that, yeah, organizations like Harvard and Stanford are requesting donations from their alumni while at the same time sitting on an endowment of thirty-five billion dollars that they could be spending down.”
Jun 23, 2020 negative
Fogg: Silicon Valley culture was dehumanizing, transactional, and driven by greed
“I'd moved out of Silicon Valley in about 2001 because I just felt like it was dehumanizing me. And so, even though I still had teaching and research at Stanford, we kind of escaped about two hours north where I, where we moved to live next to a river, and the …”
May 13, 2025 positive
Gil: Stanford, MIT, and Harvard dominate outsized startup founder outcomes
“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.”
Jun 10, 2025 neutral
Hastings: Almost dropped out of Stanford to build a foot-operated mouse
“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…”