> Caltech is too obscure. Stanford starts gaining provenance with Silicon Valley Internet tech bros I believe. Caltech is much smaller than MIT. It’s true tha

> Caltech is too obscure. Stanford starts gaining provenance with Silicon Valley Internet tech bros I believe. Caltech is much smaller than MIT. It’s true that Stanford was still not well known outside the western US into the early 80s, but its global prominence increased significantly long before those “tech bro” carpetbaggers showed up — the causality runs the other way.