Stanford, Harvard, or Yale???

aleaiactaest
Fri, 10 Apr 2015 03:34:58 +0000

Addressing a couple of points from @florida26 's post:

1. Google, Hewlett-Packard, Nike, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, Instagram, and Snapchat, among others, were started by Stanford faculty and graduates.

2. Shortly after starting Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto (adjacent to Stanford). Facebook headquarters is about a 10-minute drive from Stanford, and some of the most noteworthy venture capital firms (i.e., Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers; Khosla Ventures; Andreesen Horowitz; etc.) are located literally right next to Stanford’s campus on Sand Hill Road.

3. Bill Gates’s daughter and Steve Ballmer’s son are currently at Stanford, which they (presumably) chose over Harvard. Bill Gates said in last year’s commencement address that “Stanford is rapidly becoming the favorite university for members of our family”:

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/june/gates-commencement-remarks-061514.html

4. The annual revenue generated by companies started by Stanford graduates makes these companies collectively comparable to the world’s tenth largest economy.

5. Stanford is actually the second most common undergraduate institution on the Supreme Court, with the first being Princeton. Harvard COLLEGE (not Harvard Law School) only has one representative on the Court: Chief Justice Roberts. Former Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor attended both Stanford undergrad and Stanford Law.

6. Barack Obama did not go to Harvard College. He went to Harvard Law School.