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You mention Bill Gates to Blecharczyk, what about Steve Jobs and Woz (Woz went to Berkley, though I'm not sure that is considered in the same league as Stanford

You mention Bill Gates to Blecharczyk, what about Steve Jobs and Woz (Woz went to Berkley, though I'm not sure that is considered in the same league as Stanford, I could be wrong). How about Stuart Butterfield (Slack), he went to University of Victoria in Canada. Here is the unicorn list according to Crunchbase http://techcrunch.com/unicorn-leaderboard/ http://techcrunch.com/unicorn-leaderboard/ go through the co-founders, I think you'll find only a small percentage went to prep schools or Ivy Leagues.

melling 11y ago
Woz dropped out of Berkeley in 1971. Perhaps we should use the past tense when comparing the two schools?
atmosx 11y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution... "[...] Also in 1975, Ken Thompson took a sabbatical from Bell Labs and came to Berkeley as a visiting professor. He helped to install Version 6 Unix and started working on a Pascal implementation for the system. Graduate students Chuck Haley and Bill Joy improved Thompson's Pascal and implemented an improved text editor, ex.[2] Other universities became interested in the software at Berkeley, and so in 1977 Joy started compiling the first Berkeley Software Distribution (1BSD), which was released on March 9, 1978. BSD was an add-on to Version 6 Unix rather than a complete operating system in its own right. Some thirty copies were sent out." I don't think that in 1975 Berkeley was all that bad for future computer scientists. Seemed like a pretty good place to be actually.
- pedalpete 11y ago
  I didn't mean to suggest that great things don't come out of Berkeley, but it isn't normally talked about in the same list as Harvard, Stanford, etc. Same with University of Illinois, where Marc Andreesen helped create Mosaic and launch the consumer internet. I suspect most universities can tie themselves to some modern massive success.

melling 11y ago

Woz dropped out of Berkeley in 1971. Perhaps we should use the past tense when comparing the two schools?

atmosx 11y ago

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution... "[...] Also in 1975, Ken Thompson took a sabbatical from Bell Labs and came to Berkeley as a visiting professor. He helped to install Version 6 Unix and started working on a Pascal implementation for the system. Graduate students Chuck Haley and Bill Joy improved Thompson's Pascal and implemented an improved text editor, ex.[2] Other universities became interested in the software at Berkeley, and so in 1977 Joy started compiling the first Berkeley Software Distribution (1BSD), which was released on March 9, 1978. BSD was an add-on to Version 6 Unix rather than a complete operating system in its own right. Some thirty copies were sent out." I don't think that in 1975 Berkeley was all that bad for future computer scientists. Seemed like a pretty good place to be actually.

pedalpete 11y ago
I didn't mean to suggest that great things don't come out of Berkeley, but it isn't normally talked about in the same list as Harvard, Stanford, etc. Same with University of Illinois, where Marc Andreesen helped create Mosaic and launch the consumer internet. I suspect most universities can tie themselves to some modern massive success.