Palantir tops founder-density ranking, with Stanford second and Yahoo a surprise third
eliano · x · 2026-10-31
deedydas published a "Top 50 most talent-dense breeding grounds for founders" ranking: Palantir at #1, Stanford at #2, and — surprisingly — Yahoo at #3, with UC Berkeley and X (formerly Twitter) rounding out the top five.
Yahoo beating many major tech companies for third place is the most counterintuitive datapoint in the list.
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