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The Stanford Freshmen Who Want to Rule the World
- apparent 6mo agoInteresting article, and then at the end you see that this Stanford student is also pursuing his own path to fame and riches — by publishing a forthcoming tell-all book about the apparently seedy underbelly of Stanford. Perhaps he is not so different from his subjects, at least in terms of his end goals?
- david_shi 6mo agoMany such cases
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- randycupertino 6mo agoHe's a nepo baby; His dad is Peter Baker, chief White House Correspondent for the NYTimes and his mom is Susan Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker & former editor at The Washington Post.
- IncreasePosts 6mo agoHe might be a nepo baby, but he also might be a person who had two extremely successful professional writers tutoring and mentoring him for years on end.
- pfannkuchen 6mo agoDepends how involved they were. A lot of very successful people end up focusing on work and outsourcing the kid stuff.
- randycupertino 6mo agohttps://smry.ai/https:/www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/stanford-students-power/686920 https://smry.ai/https:/www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/sta...
- FeteCommuniste 6mo agoInteresting that "recruitment" happens right after age of consent is reached. I guess eighteen year olds have some special intellectual quality that a twenty year old would lack?
- IncreasePosts 6mo agoIt doesn't need to be anything sexual. It could just be that 18-year-olds have less experience with the world overall, a less developed moral compass, and fewer attachments to the larger world. World. So, you can mold them however you like. It's still absolutely gross, but not necessarily gross like that
- theturtle 6mo ago[dead]
- 7e 6mo agoNaïve, willing to work for nothing, likely a nepo baby with connections, arrogant, and with a sense of entitlement what will help drive a jumbo liquidity event. They’re the perfect prey for VCs.
- mitchbob 6mo agohttps://archive.ph/m7CV7 https://archive.ph/m7CV7