This might help for creating an initial analysis: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/founders https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/founders Of 11,162 YC fo

This might help for creating an initial analysis: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/founders https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/founders Of 11,162 YC founders who haven't opted out of the directory, the top 9 alma maters account for nearly exactly 20% of founders. 540 - Stanford University 388 - University of California, Berkeley 373 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 193 - University of Waterloo 187 - Harvard University 144 - Carnegie Mellon University 143 - Columbia University 143 - University of Pennsylvania 124 - Cornell University I don't know what you'd compare this to for "society at large" but of the 500 CEO's in the Fortune 500, the top 9 alma maters account for about 16% of those CEO's. 25 - Harvard University 11 - Stanford University 9 - University of Pennsylvania 7 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6 - Cornell University 6 - University of Chicago 6 - Northwestern 6 - Columbia University 6 - Yale