Stanford faculty has won more nobel prizes than any other university in the world this century.
without Stanford there would be no Silicon Valley… Stanford laid the ground work for Silicon Valley with the Stanford industrial park prior to the traitorous eight. Quibble with the details the author has the theme correct.
the bigger issue is not that Stanford now is the most selective university in the US, or tops in fund raising in most years… it’s that Stanford represents the university model that others (including Harvard) are emulating.
Universities around the world are not looking to be the next Harvard, or Oxford… they look to Stanford and the ecosystem called Silicon Valley that Stanford created as the model. This includes Cornell tech that was created with Stanford in mind.
Stanford has changed the game and the pecking order. that’s reality:)