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- Be raised rich and or be surrounded by the rich/powerful(Elizabeth Holmes, Evan Speigel, etc...)

- Have rich & powerful friends directly or indirectly

- Impress & become friendly with the rich & powerful either through clear data that shows your worth an investment(your startup data shows traction) or lie your butt off; aka fake it before you make it. I always strive(d) for the former as darn my parents and the morality they instilled.



The tone of your comment is off, but the underlying point has at least some merit.


Pardon if it comes off jaded, but what I note is very true. I’m in no way trying to impress Sam Altman like i gather some others may be.

No idea his background... yet did he not go to an Ivy League school?


No, he didn't go to an Ivy League school.


From wikipedia: "studied computer science at Stanford University". Stanford isn't Ivy league? Or is wikipedia wrong?


Stanford is not Ivy League.


Umm in 2015/2016 Stanford's tuition was $46k while Harvard was $45k.

If it's not Ivy League why am I paying more to go there then the hallmark ivy league school?


Ivy League is a specific name for north eastern universities in a 'sports league'

I would consider stanford a top tier school... but ivy league appears to have a specific definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League#Members


Semantics aside, I think it serves nearly the same purpose to immediately exclude 99.999999% of the population.


That leaves only 80 ppl on earth.




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