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Bloomberg conducted dozens of interviews about Stanford's startup scene and its perks and perils. Here are some of the people who capture different aspects of the school's culture.If you walked into Ryan Breslow's Stanford dorm room in the spring of 2014, you'd be forgiven for thinking no one lived there -- no pictures on the walls, no clothes in the closet, no comforter on the bed. That's because no one was supposed to be living there.
Dropping out is still the exception rather than the rule at Stanford, but taking a year off to work on a startup is so prevalent that there's a term for it: "stopping out." It's also common for students to take a light course load -- only two classes or so -- to spend more time on their startups, Breslow said.Some companies are born in the classroom. Terry Winograd looks like an academic, with bushy white hair and a mustache to rival Einstein's.
"My expectation for the students and Lucas Duplan, who was the CEO, was that they would graduate," Sahami said. Teitelman, 30, also founded StartX to create a safe space for students who are first-time founders working in Silicon Valley's shark-infested waters. After hearing stories of students who had been offered unfair deals by their lecturers, many of whom were full-time venture capitalists, Teitelman wanted to help students avoid those situations, he said.
"It's an honour to teach there," Levine said. "It's about giving back and providing the expertise that I have."
'How do they do it? One obvious answer is **CONNECTIONS**' An undergraduate degree at Stanford will cost you A$95K. Only the rich can afford that. So they are connected to other rich. Who you know is more important than what you know.
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