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pg on Dec 12, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Viral Me: Inside Y Combinator

It ain't so. In fact I wrote a whole essay about what a bad predictor people's colleges turn out to be.

http://paulgraham.com/colleges.html

Edit: I just took a look at a random sample of startups in the batch we just accepted. Out of 21 founders, 2 went to Stanford, and 2 went to Ivy League colleges.

ivankirigin on Dec 12, 2010 [–]

Just 21 founders?

ecuzzillo on Dec 12, 2010 | [–]

It was a random sample of the batch.

ivankirigin on Dec 13, 2010 | | [–]

Whoops

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