[Joel Dietz's] swarm bio at http://swarmcorp.com/team.html http://swarmcorp.com/team.html lists "#Harvard #Brown #Penn" but his LinkedIn profile seems to indica

[Joel Dietz's] swarm bio at http://swarmcorp.com/team.html http://swarmcorp.com/team.html lists "#Harvard #Brown #Penn" but his LinkedIn profile seems to indicate that he did not actually get a degree from all of these institutions. UPenn's 257th commencement program lists one Joel Dietz among their 2012 Master of Arts recipients [1]; and Brown's undergraduate East Asian Studies 2012 alumni newsletter mentions one Joel Dietz '04 having "just finished his M.A. in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations department at the University of Pennsylvania" [2]. The founder's affiliation with Harvard is less clear-cut: apparently he took an introductory Sanskrit course through the Summer School in 2012 [3,4], but it is unclear if he was affiliated in any other more substantive or relevant capacity. For what it's worth, the founder's swarm bio now lists "#Brown #Penn #SalesforceMVP" instead; and an article from less than a month ago listed two different core team members than today [5]. Either way, it is paramount that business leaders be forthright about their academic credentials --remember Scott Thompson?--, especially in such a confidence-tricked industry, and especially when they purposedly cite them as a signal of technical ability and experience [6] --pointless credentialism, if you ask me. [1] http://www.archives.upenn.edu/primdocs/upg/upg7/upg7_2013.pdf http://www.archives.upenn.edu/primdocs/upg/upg7/upg7_2013.pd... [2] http://brown.edu/academics/east-asian-studies/sites/brown.edu.academics.east-asian-studies/files/uploads/EAS_e-newsletter_2012.pdf http://brown.edu/academics/east-asian-studies/sites/brown.ed... [3] https://github.com/fractastical/Sanskrit-at-Harvard https://github.com/fractastical/Sanskrit-at-Harvard [4] http://archive.summer.harvard.edu/courses/sans.jsp http://archive.summer.harvard.edu/courses/sans.jsp Apparently this is the only intro course Witzel teaches. [5] http://www.followthecoin.com/digital-currency-crowdfunding-startup-swarm-raises-450-btc/ http://www.followthecoin.com/digital-currency-crowdfunding-s... [6] http://www.coindesk.com/swarm-take-bitcoin-crowdfunding-new-heights/ http://www.coindesk.com/swarm-take-bitcoin-crowdfunding-new-...