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Making Sure the Next Zuckerberg or Gates Stays Put at Harvard
- amirmc 15y agoThis seems like a great idea on the surface but I really wonder if companies like Facebook or Microsoft would have become what they are, if they'd stuck around. I'm not convinced they would but it'd be nice to be proved wrong.
- steve-howard 15y ago> The irony of the pair of legendary entrepreneurs dropping out — decades apart — of the even more legendary university to start two of tech most significant companies, Facebook and Microsoft. Not only do I not spot irony, I have no idea what that sentence fragment was meant to convey. Somehow I doubt, too, that the reason some wildly successful entrepreneurs dropped out is because they wanted to move to the West Coast.
- vessenes 15y agoDid you go to Harvard? If you did, you would find it ironic, since Harvard students and alums believe it is the best and smartest place on earth. I generalize, but only a little.
- vessenes 15y agoThis article misses the interesting commentary, at least on Zuckerberg. The reality is that the capital dynamics in Boston for companies like Facebook were just nothing like those in SV when Zuck moved. They are now arguably worse, I'd say, (although I'm a bit removed, having moved west a few years ago). It's doubtful Facebook would exist in its current form without Silicon Valley; it was and is something special in the startup eco-system; a small angel fund at Harvard won't change that, even a little bit.
- joezydeco 15y agoSo is the idea here that the next Zuckerberg or Gates would contribute heavily to the Harvard Endowment Fund if they had graduated instead of dropping out?
- joelgrus 15y agoEither that or that they wouldn't have to go through life burdened by the stigma of never having graduated college.
- joezydeco 15y agoSo is the idea here that the next Zuckerberg or Gates would contribute heavily to the Harvard Endowment Fund if they had graduated instead of dropping out?