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Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:03 unnamed speaker He quoted Zuck's announcement with a screenshot of the exchange that Zuck had with, with somebody during the early days of Facebook where he said, yeah, so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard, just ask.
Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
- ▶ 3:09 Pablo Torre Went to Harvard. 2 times in the scene
Apple Sues OpenAI, Experts Sign Another AI Warning Letter, Paramount Threatens CA Exit
- ▶ 23:21 John Coogan So if you look at who signed this, you have a ton of people from OpenAI, Anthropic, Stanford, uh, Meter, uh, like every, Harvard, like every lab.
Palantir's AIPCon 10, Ramp Hits $44B, 60 Minutes Eyes Rogan | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:38 unnamed speaker Uh, yeah, Y Combinator, DeepMind, Microsoft, Interconnects, AI, Harvard, uh, tons of stuff, and then over in, uh, in the nucleic acid synthesis industry, you have, uh, Twist Bioscience, uh, ANSA, Emerald Cloud Lab, and Kathleen McMahon…
The $1B One-Person Company, China’s Pork Crisis, America’s New Weapon | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:38 John Coogan But the canonical example of the, uh, health supplement or telehealth operation that would always go viral and always just print was if you could get an ad approved that had Harvard scientists, brain pill, and Johnny Depp all in one call… 2 times in the scene
The Truth Behind the “Solo Founder Billion Dollar Company”
- ▶ 15:07 John Coogan Uh, always go viral and always just print, was if you could get an ad approved that had Harvard scientists, brain pill, and Johnny Depp, all in one call to action. 2 times in the scene
How I Built and Sold SALT & STONE
- ▶ 12:28 unnamed speaker I forgot, I forget, uh, the name of it, but they had like an MBA program that was like every single word, not Harvard.
Kling AI reaches 12M MAU, China's aging tech worker crisis, drama at ThinkingMachine | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:40 unnamed speaker In certain areas, we know it's going to be profound, whether it's call centers, whether it's helping to improve the productivity of software engineers, but in a number of white-collar jobs, you know, there was a, there was a recent Harvard…
How Josh Kushner Became The Most Powerful VC in New York
- ▶ 5:35 unnamed speaker He went to Harvard for undergrad while, uh, at the time, uh, Mark Zuckerberg had just dropped out of Facebook. 2 times in the scene
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
- ▶ 19:37 Andrew Ross Sorkin So what happened was I actually went to the, the reason I really went down the road is I go to this library at Harvard University.
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 2:13:44 Martin Shkreli He's like, Hey man, we just left Harvard.
Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
- ▶ 4:23 Andrew Huberman Some of these universities, not all, but some of them, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UT, Austin, et cetera.
- ▶ 20:55 Andrew Huberman What happens to Harvard and Columbia?
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 1:07:32 Andrew Huberman Some of these universities, not all, but some of them, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UT, Austin, et cetera, the private universities often, although some public ones do, have very large endowments. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32:31 Andrew Huberman What happens to Harvard and Columbia?
- ▶ 2:23:10 unnamed speaker Uh, I worked as a researcher at Stanford, researcher at Harvard.
- ▶ 2:28:13 unnamed speaker Um, we both met at Harvard. 2 times in the scene
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 14:30 Balaji Srinivasan So for those of you who don't know, like Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, those the Puritans they founded Harvard in the 1600 when, you know, it was actually just a one room schoolhouse.
We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
- ▶ 11:08 unnamed speaker Um, I'm actually always kind of concerned that, um, amongst people my age, like when I talk with people from Harvard or Stanford or whoever, right, like who are considering dropping out, everyone wants to start a B to B company.
Missing PayPal and Google Made Him a Better Investor | Ali Partovi on TBPN
- ▶ 1:20 Ali Partovi Well, my, I, I was a CS student at Harvard and started a company shortly after college with two other Harvard grads. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:46 Ali Partovi First of all, when you mentioned meme, I thought you were talking about, there's, there was a Twitter meme a month or two ago saying these are the institutions that, you know, students would drop out of Harvard and Stanford for, and it,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:58 Ali Partovi My, um, one of the smartest people from Harvard Computer Science, Craig Silverstein, kind of reached out to a whole group of us saying, hey, I need advice.
- ▶ 17:04 Ali Partovi Joking aside, what we do actually is we come in and not just at Stanford, also at Waterloo, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, um, MIT.
The Real Cost of Ultra-Processed Food | Calley Means on TBPN
- ▶ 27:40 Calley Means I'll say the independent media also rightfully has led to record distrust of our major institutions from, you know, frankly, the education system, you know, lots happening with Harvard right now, um, to, uh, the pharmaceutical industry,…
Could AI TAKE OVER by 2027? | Morgan Housel on TBPN April 4th
- ▶ 28:00 Morgan Housel and you went to Harvard and you work at Goldman Sachs and you spend six months doing due diligence on this deal, you are going to convince yourself of whatever you want to convince yourself of, because you have so much mental horsepower…
David Senra (Founders Podcast) on Studying Billionaires and Avoiding Their Mistakes
- ▶ 5:03 David Senra The one thing I heard was that he convinced Harvard to let him install, um, like a satellite dish so he could get real up to the minute, uh, data. 3 times in the scene
Delian Asparouhov on Defense Startups, NASA, Continuing Resolution and More
- ▶ 9:49 John Coogan We were talking about this with like the year Facebook came out of Harvard. 2 times in the scene
Chris Power (Hadrian) on Building Autonomous Factories
- ▶ 7:34 Jordi Hays What do you, what do you think about, uh, the classic Harvard MBA? 2 times in the scene
Shaun Maguire breaks down Wiz investment, building great teams, and the Everything App.
- ▶ 10:06 Shaun Maguire I think it's become much harder to concentrate talent spinning out of like Stanford or Harvard or wherever than it used to be. 6 times in the scene
Brendan Foody on using AI to predict job performance and scaling from $1M to $100M in 11 months
- ▶ 0:51 Brendan Foody Um, my parents insisted that I had to, and so I went to Georgetown for two years where Suri was my roommate there, and Adarsh was at Harvard. 2 times in the scene
The GREAT VC AI DEBATE between Slow Ventures and Greylock Partners.
- ▶ 13:57 Sam Lessin You're like, ah, you went to Harvard, you studied this thing, you got this check box.
Michael Mignano on Building Anchor, Social Podcasting, and the Future of Oboe.
- ▶ 1:12 Michael Mignano Uh, the founders came out of MIT, Harvard.
"There's a lot of stuck founders out there" - Jeremy Giffon breaks down the current state of VC.
- ▶ 18:36 Jeremy Giffon You don't gotta like go to Harvard and do YC and all that.
Elizabeth Holmes First Interview Released
- ▶ 28:20 unnamed speaker Um, I actually remember when I got to Silicon Valley, uh, my co-founder David was a biotech, uh, PhD Caltech and, and Harvard guy.
DJI Suspicions, Stargate Turmoil, OpenAI Operator, F40 for the Mind
- ▶ 5:00 unnamed speaker He also wanted to go to MIT or Harvard.
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 1:58:52 John Coogan Like, we just had, I, well, there was a study, there was a study, a bunch of MIT, Harvard, and, uh, Stanford researchers got together
Insurance Companies Explained (How they actually work)
- ▶ 1:32:51 John Coogan So they would have, uh, it was based on this thing that happened at Harvard where at the end of the year, everyone would submit names of people that they were like attracted to, but never actually had a chance to really go on a date with.
How to WIN in 2025? (INSANE Predictions List)
- ▶ 41:15 John Coogan And it's like MIT, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, basically. 2 times in the scene
The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- ▶ 1:59:55 John Coogan But also just, like, like, even though the colleges do follow, like, a bit of a power law where, like, Stanford, Harvard, MIT are gonna be, like, the best, like, there are, even within the schools, like, extra power law people, like, uh,… 2 times in the scene
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 1:17:38 John Coogan And this guy was, like, four point oh, Harvard, like, super, like, super high status at every single moment, and it still took him eight times to get in.
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 9:40 John Coogan That's some serious bravado, but hey, when you've built viral platforms and dropped out of Harvard after one semester, confidence isn't exactly in short supply.
- ▶ 14:12 John Coogan Uh, he graduated from Harvard. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:05:51 John Coogan I always think about this, like, I went to college in Boston, and one of the benefits of Boston as a college town, obviously, like, there's the network effects of, like, you have Harvard, MIT, all these great colleges around there, so,…
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 17:59 John Coogan He's a Harvard double degree holder in computer science, rocking both a BA and a master's graduating magna cum laude with five beta kappa honors.
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 2:54:19 John Coogan Doge is the new Harvard.
Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- ▶ 1:23:09 unnamed speaker Leo Polovets says, people over slash under value various pedigrees, Harvard, MIT are great, but not that rare. 3 times in the scene
FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- ▶ 6:54 John Coogan Uh, I did not get a chance to talk to Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, but they were there, and he describes them as the six foot five cryptocurrency investors and former Harvard heavyweight rowers made famous in the social network.
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- ▶ 19:23 John Coogan Well, have you ever been on the red line out to Harvard in Boston or in Cambridge? 2 times in the scene
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 2:57:39 John Coogan You've seen that dude who's, who was a, uh, Navy seal, then a doctor at Harvard and then a astronaut.
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 6:25 John Coogan Who, uh, is a Harvard grad. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:55:57 Jordi Hays Literally stuff that you can learn while getting a Harvard MBA, which is raise prices and cut costs.
Crypto is Back Baby (ep5)
- ▶ 8:41 John Coogan Well, he's a Harvard guy.
- ▶ 1:11:43 Jordi Hays I studied while I was there at basically the Harvard of China.