Harvard

10 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 5, 2021 by Balaji Srinivasan · across every show →

Everything said about Harvard, oldest first

May 5, 2021 negative
Disclosure
Balaji stops hiring from Stanford, Harvard, and MIT, recruiting via Twitter instead
“I don't hire actually from Stanford or Harvard or MIT or whatever anymore. You know where I hire from? Twitter.”
Balaji Srinivasan May 5, 2021 ▶ 2:27:14 Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
Feb 5, 2024
Insight
Shaan Puri: One prestige brand logo is enough to carry a resume
“And one is enough. One is enough. That's the key. I think one problem people can do is they go logo collecting. One is enough. If you got Harvard, Awesome. You don't need to also go get another MBA from some other place. Or if you have Facebook, you don't have…”
Shaan Puri Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 18:14 How I Went From Intern To CEO In 6 Months (My First Startup Gig)
Apr 1, 2024 neutral
Insight
Shaan Puri: Elite universities are part luxury brand, daycare, and insurance
“Top, top flight university, universities are part luxury brand, Part daycare, part education, part insurance policy.”
Shaan Puri Apr 1, 2024 ▶ 23:32 3 Anti-Comfort Businesses That Are Making Millions
Oct 23, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Sam Parr: 2% of admitted students at top Ivy Leagues used Crimson
“Something like two percent of the students admitted into Brown, Columbia, Harvard, and Penn last year were his clients.”
Sam Parr Oct 23, 2024 ▶ 17:01 You Have 70 Days to Win the Year
Oct 23, 2024
Assertion Supported
Sam Parr: 25% of incoming Harvard students used private admissions tutors
“They said that like, 25% of people going to Harvard this year, they had one of these, like, tutors, and then it goes up even higher that if your parents have a household income of at least half a million dollars, half of them use these types of tutors”
Sam Parr Oct 23, 2024 ▶ 24:15 You Have 70 Days to Win the Year
Dec 18, 2024 bearish
Assertion Supported
Puri: Harvard had 1 African-American studies graduate for 57 faculty
“Like, I think there was only what was it? Like, there was one degree recipient in twenty-twenty-three in African-American studies. And 57 faculty.”
Shaan Puri Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 56:49 The #1 Most Underrated Quality in an Entrepreneur
Dec 18, 2024 bearish
Assertion Supported
Parr: Harvard's operating margin is -40% without its endowment distributions
“He says, the operating margin would be a -40% without distributions from its endowment.”
Sam Parr Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 55:30 The #1 Most Underrated Quality in an Entrepreneur
Dec 18, 2024 bearish
Assertion Supported
Puri: Harvard enrollment flatlined over 20 years while administration grew 40%
“Enrollment has been flat over the last 20 years. Faculty growth has been modest, you know, growing at half a percent, but administration growth has grown by 40% in 20 years.”
Shaan Puri Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 54:43 The #1 Most Underrated Quality in an Entrepreneur
Dec 18, 2024 positive
Insight
Puri: Harvard dropouts offer a stronger founder signal than graduates
“Being a Harvard dropout is a stronger signal than being a Harvard graduate. There's all these things that sound silly, but actually end up being true, because if you're the type of person who can get into Harvard and that has enough conviction and an idea to d…”
Shaan Puri Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 3:29 The #1 Most Underrated Quality in an Entrepreneur
May 11, 2026
Assertion Supported
Puri: IIT is harder to get into than Harvard, Stanford, or any US college
“IIT is harder to get into than Harvard. Then Stanford's a harder, harder to get into than any U S college.”
Shaan Puri May 11, 2026 ▶ 9:30 I put 80% of my money in the S&P after a billionaire investor told me not to
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