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Ycombinator doesn't care about credentials? Sam Alton - Stanford Drew Houston - mit Collision brothers - mit/harvard Airbnb guys - RISD We could go on, so let
by untilHellbanned 9y ago
Ycombinator doesn't care about credentials?
Sam Alton - Stanford
Drew Houston - mit
Collision brothers - mit/harvard
Airbnb guys - RISD
We could go on, so let's do...
Please tell me honestly if you think google Facebook Amazon Microsoft would be where they were without the "traditional credentials" of their founders? Stanford, harvard, Princeton, harvard, respectively.
At this point all these SV demigods like Ravikant (Dartmouth/Stuyvesant-look it up) are just being irresponsible getting kids' hope up.
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- KGIII 9y agoDo those folks really count as traditional credentials? Google founders suspended their Ph.D. programs. Bezos has a BS. Gates dropped out. Zuckerberg dropped out.
- sannee 9y ago> Gates dropped out. > Zuckerberg dropped out. Both of them managed to get into Harvard, which is an academic achievement in itself though.
- wellboy 9y agoNot as much really as it is about who you know.
- untilHellbanned 9y agoYes they are a signal at the key initiating step.
- anonymous5133 9y agoI'd argue that you could have locked zuckerberg, gates and the rest of them in a closet for 5 years with a computer and they would have still gone on to do amazing stuff. Is it harvard, yale etc that made these people great or was it something that was already in them? Their drive to innovate and passion for exploration is what made them successful, not harvard.