[untilHellbanned]

Ycombinator doesn't care about credentials?

Sam Alton - Stanford Drew Houston - mit Collision brothers - mit/harvard Airbnb guys - RISD

We could go on, so let's do...

Please tell me honestly if you think google Facebook Amazon Microsoft would be where they were without the "traditional credentials" of their founders? Stanford, harvard, Princeton, harvard, respectively.

At this point all these SV demigods like Ravikant (Dartmouth/Stuyvesant-look it up) are just being irresponsible getting kids' hope up.

[anonymous5133]

I'd argue that you could have locked zuckerberg, gates and the rest of them in a closet for 5 years with a computer and they would have still gone on to do amazing stuff. Is it harvard, yale etc that made these people great or was it something that was already in them? Their drive to innovate and passion for exploration is what made them successful, not harvard.

[KGIII]

Do those folks really count as traditional credentials?

Google founders suspended their Ph.D. programs.

Bezos has a BS.

Gates dropped out.

Zuckerberg dropped out.

[sannee]

> Gates dropped out.

> Zuckerberg dropped out.

Both of them managed to get into Harvard, which is an academic achievement in itself though.

[wellboy]

Not as much really as it is about who you know.

[untilHellbanned]

Yes they are a signal at the key initiating step.