This article is so riddled with errors its laughable. They forgot to do basic fact checking. Omidyar(Ebay) went to Tufts, E-Trade founders had nothing to do with Stanford. The EA founder was also a Harvard undergrad.
Many of the companies mentioned in the article, Netflix, Linkedin etc were created years after the founders graduated from Stanford, so it is quite a stretch to say that Stanford had much to do with their founding… Btw these companies had co-founders who did not go to Stanford (or Harvard).
Alumni of many universities including MIT, Berkeley and other flagship state universities have contributed significantly to the creation of silicon valley. They continue to do as much or more than Stanford. Maybe the author should spend time reading up on the “traitorous eight” and their impact on Silicon Valley.