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Also, I'd say the university system may have something to do with it. US unis work more like UK Sixth Form Colleges, where students study a variety of subjects

by CM30 11y ago

Also, I'd say the university system may have something to do with it. US unis work more like UK Sixth Form Colleges, where students study a variety of subjects and encounter people with different interests (whereas a UK university education is about one subject with a much smaller group of peers). As a result, the US system is arguably a lot better suited to networking and meeting people with an interest in starting a business. How many tech company founders met at university? Now, how many studied the exact same things? I'd say a lot less of them.

icebraining 11y ago
How many tech company founders met at university? Now, how many studied the exact same things? Well, a short search returns: Google: two PhDs studying the same thing. Apple: Jobs and Woz met when the former was in High School; they never attended the same college. Yahoo: two EE graduate students. Microsoft: childhood friends, didn't attend the same college. Oracle: didn't attend the same college, met when working for the same company. Red Hat: didn't attend the same college. Salesforce: met while working at Oracle. At least for the software behemoths, it seems it's not that important to have mixed colleges.