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The Slow Death of Stanford’s Startup Culture

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At age 19, Steve Jobs moved to India, converted to Zen Buddhism and seriously considered becoming a monk. At Apple, he liked to wash his bare feet in the company toilets. Steve Jobs was a genius. He was also a really weird guy. Although Jobs himself did not attend Stanford,

Table of Contents At age 19, Steve Jobs moved to India, converted to Zen Buddhism and seriously considered becoming a monk. At Apple, he liked to wash his bare feet in the company toilets. Steve Jobs was a genius. He was also a really weird guy. Although Jobs himself did not attend Stanford, our university has built a global brand as an incubator of similarly “different thinking” and disruptive entrepreneurs. The results speak for themselves. From Hewlett and Packard to the contrarian Paypal Mafia, Stanford graduates turned Silicon Valley from a Wild West of rogue coders into an economic jugge

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