MIT

“Remember when we started Y Combinator, our hypothesis was, oh, we'll just fund all the best hackers from MIT and Harvard, and they'll turn out to be great startup founders. That is not true. That is absolutely not true.”

“Where Arash just said, hey, let's meet up, and we hung out in the Student Center for a couple hours, and he dropped out of school the next day.”

“I'm working on a project. This is the last project that I have at MIT that I can't exactly, I can't talk about what it is, but it's I'll just say it's a very large scale Artwork that is that's using CRISPR.”

“I remember in, when I started in late nineties and I didn't know how to find founders I was going on Stanford computer science actually school looking at every name that looked Iranian or Persian and sending an email and inviting them for tea. And I ended up i…”

“The first summer, we gave the startups 6000 dollars per founder which was based on the stipend that MIT gave students, gave their grad students during the summer.”

“But just because you went, you have a PhD in computer science from MIT and you got a 1600 on the SATs as a freshman doesn't necessarily mean you'll have a successful company. It's not directly correlated.”

“Anywhere from 60 to 75% of the students who go to schools like Stanford and MIT come from the top 20% of families by income, and oftentimes you get up to a quarter of the student body that's from the one percent of families by income.”