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Harvard and Yale operate like venture capital firms: they prefer risky applicants with possible world-changing upside over solid applicants with predictable modest success.
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Venture Capital
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Jiang says Yale functions like a venture capital portfolio that only needs a handful of spectacular winners and treats the rest of the student body as disposable tools.
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"...10 succeed, they succeed spectacularly. And so it's almost like a venture capital firm in that you invest 1,000 companies knowing that 900 of..."
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"...on, okay? All right. So, Harvard is, first and foremost, a venture capital firm, okay? Your investment firm. So, let's pretend you're a venture..."
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"So, option one is, low risk, really good plan, solid returns, $500,000 a year, okay? Option two is, concept, vague idea, I have absolutely..."
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"We forget everyone else. Okay? That's the Harvard mentality. And that's why they're the most famous university in the world, because they're looking to..."
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"...saw the potential in J.D. Vance. And he supported J.D. Vance's venture capital career as well as his Senate race. And then he promoted..."
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"then you can build the um ai state venture capital is really uh consolidating our various things uh it's my belief that these ice..."
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"...regular people. And calling the Ivy League and Harvard like a venture capital firm is so good. It's almost like the show Shark Tank..."
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"...Does that make sense? That's how they think, because they're a venture capital firm. They're looking for the riskiest investment with the best possible..."
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