Most legendary tech founders are Stanford/MIT grads, not dropouts: Thiel, Jensen Huang, Brin and Page
felpix_ · x · 2026-09-18
Responding to a question about when the "founder" narrative shifted from dropout with a unique backstory to Stanford/MIT graduate, felpix argues the dropout myth is overblown: the biggest founders of the past four decades mostly came from elite schools — Thiel, Jensen Huang, Brin and Page are Stanford grads, Pat Collison went to MIT. Most people can name only about three legendary dropout founders.
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