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PG: Here's a good way to test this: Please ask the next round of applicants to NOT mention the school they went to. What do you think?

• aston 19y ago
  Too bad about those school email addresses...
• pg 19y ago
  We considered that, but there's more information there than just a scalar value representing impressiveness.
  • prakash 19y ago
    Can you expand on that? What kind of information?
    • deleted 19y ago
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    • pg 19y ago
      We can tell which founders went to the same school. We can ask people who teach at or went to school x about applicants from there. If they went to a school we know about first hand, we can ask more specific questions about what they did in college. If they went to a big hacker school like MIT, we can suggest that they recruit friends and/or launch their beta there.
      • prakash 19y ago
        makes sense. thanks.
      • vegashacker 19y ago
        It also gives you the data you need to continue testing this theory.
        • asdflkj 19y ago
          He could always ask them after accepting (or even rejecting).