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If you end up with smarter friends, then yes.

• nostrademons 18y ago
  Smarter and more ambitious. I went to Amherst College. Students there are very, very smart - in many cases, probably equal to the students at Harvard or MIT (a bunch of my friends got into those too). But culturally, students at Amherst and other top liberal-arts colleges aren't all that ambitious. The normal career track is to graduate, work for a couple years at a financial or consulting firm, go to Harvard Law or Harvard Business School, make partner or upper management, and then coast and enjoy the good life. I'm finding that it's hard to recruit cofounders from among my college friends, simply because so many of them have other opportunities that don't entail the risk and hard work that a startup does. When you've been accepted to HBS and basically have a guaranteed $200k/year salary after graduation (as happened to my former cofounder), do you take the bird in hand or hang in there for the 5% chance of a bird in the bush?