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Stanford and Startup Theatre - In Pursuit of Wisdom

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In February, Stanford undergrad Bassel Ojjeh wrote an article asking if YC was for cowards.

In February, Stanford undergrad Bassel Ojjeh wrote an article asking if YC was for cowards. In it he described the feeling on campus that it’s harder to get a job than to get into YC, and that the once revered accelerator had diluted the talent of its batches by accepting more and more teams every year. At the heart of Bassel’s piece is a recognition of Stanford’s optimization culture. He points out how our school attracts a “manicured intelligence,” the student body president/valedictorian/app builder who frenetically pursued exceptionalism in high school. Yet this archetype, he argues,…

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