Too many people will read this, wrongly, as, "if you want to found a startup, go to Stanford" The fortuitous colocation of Stanford and Silicon Valley (with at

Too many people will read this, wrongly, as, "if you want to found a startup, go to Stanford" The fortuitous colocation of Stanford and Silicon Valley (with attendant startup culture, venture capital firms, etc) leads to a virtuous circle: people going to Stanford see startups nearby, and consider starting one. And because there are startups there, people interested in them go to Stanford.