He’s on the Stanford waitlist and is trying dissuade kids from choosing Stanford. That’s my best guess. Otherwise, he has a very unhealthy obsession with Stanford because all he does is create negative threads and posts about Stanford. The last one got closed for going round and round. He is relentless.
@Multiverse7 He strikes me either as what you say or an insecure/butthurt Yale or Princeton student/alum, given the glowing things he writes on the Yale and Princeton forums.
In any case bless his heart, it is so funny to watch.
Also, Jim Simons and Carl Icahn are not in the tech industry. Neither is Michael Bloomberg for that matter. His company sells financial data and media. The two Koch brothers are also not in the tech industry and they were wealthy long before entering MIT being the scions of the founder of Koch Industires. And lastly, as I’ve said before, it was Stanford that gave Larry Page and Serget Brin the opportunities they needed to start Google.
Why is Warren Buffett, The Waltons, and host of others not on this list? Probably because it doesn’t serve OP’s purpose whatever that may be. Wish this thread would get closed too for the non-information it provides. Anyone can google the richest people in the US and see a more accurate list.
Stanford ranks 4th - one fewer than Harvard and Yale. Princeton is #7 with 6 in total. I post this but I view it as meaningless as OPs posts. I’m done with the inanity of this whole exercise. No one should choose a school based upon the number of billionaires or who is the richest among them. Choose a school that you can see yourself enjoying spending four years at. Opportunities will be there for anyone who graduates from any of these schools but the odds that you will become a billionaire are slim to none.
Dave Goldberg was a rich Harvard grad who was CEO of Survey Monkey. And married to Sheryl Sandberg. He died. Money isn’t everything. Focus more on being happy.
Bill Gates would be considered an odd pick as while he founded Microsoft, his main claim to fame wasn’t in the tech area (most CS/engineering industry/academic folks would ROTFLOL at anyone lauding Bill Gates’ tech/programming chops), but in the innovation of the intellectual property concept of end-user software licensing which is really mainly in the area of business law/management.
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