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Linkedin shows that the number one place where Palantir employees studied is Stanford. They love to dig on these universities, but yes, he's wrong, by his own
by techpineapple 1y ago
Linkedin shows that the number one place where Palantir employees studied is Stanford. They love to dig on these universities, but yes, he's wrong, by his own companies hiring processes. And I can't find the number of applicants, but at all these universities the number of accepted students is rising, and the acceptance rate is falling dramatically, which suggests many more people are applying. So he will tell you Elite universities suck while absolutely advising people he knows to go to an elite university.
Pedigree matters tremendously. I don't want it to! I went to a state school, I want to believe going to Harvard doesn't matter. But it's bananas to think it actually doesn't. Alex Karp doesn't believe elite education is useless, he wants YOU to believe it's useless.
Clicked on 20 random Palantir profiles on LinkedIn. All went to college, disproportionate number of ivies/elite
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