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Harvard. Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Mark Zuckerberg.
by limeade 19y ago
Harvard. Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Mark Zuckerberg.
- boucher 19y agoGates and Ballmer are part of the same good fortune, and I wouldn't be so quick to throw accolades on Zuckerburg. That being said, Harvard is probably a pretty good place to be.
- pg 19y agoSergey Brin went to the University of Maryland. Larry Page went to Michigan. Marc Andreessen and Max Levchin went to the University of Illinois. This not to say some schools aren't better than others, but when people do great things it's usually because of who they are rather than where they went to college.
- PStamatiou 19y agomy thoughts exactly.
- neilc 19y agoWell, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a top 10 (arguably top 5) ranked CS department, and Michigan is no slouch, either. I agree with the gist of your point, though. The school you attend is considerably more important for grad school.
- white 19y agoWell, I'm not fully agree on the examples with Sergey and Max. Sergey's father is a very qualified ex-soviet mathematician, he gave very good basics to Sergey. Max moved to US when he was 16. He's got grounds from the soviet education system, which was very different comparing to US. So, their college choice (theoretically) could not change their fate. ;) But in overall you're right. Don't treat college as your pass to success, however it could be your backup, just in case if you're not that smart as you think. ;)
- ericwan 19y agoBallmer is not an entrepreneur. He was an employee and never founded a startup.
- deyan 19y agoBallmer went to Stanford Business School as well (for a little bit). To the original question: Stanford, by a very wide margin.