VCs still care. VC pitch decks will make a point of highlighting the elite schools that early engineers/founders went to (MIT, Stanford, Ivys, Oxbridge, etc). W

VCs still care. VC pitch decks will make a point of highlighting the elite schools that early engineers/founders went to (MIT, Stanford, Ivys, Oxbridge, etc). Whether it should or not, having a couple of those big names on there can be the difference on millions of dollars of funding. It might not be important at many levels of the industry, but it's useful to have if you're a founder or early employee in startups.