Stanford Undergrad - Not that successful in High Tech Start-up industry (??)

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Billionaires ranking in Tech-Startup area (undergrad)

  1. Bill Gates (Harvard)
  2. Jeff Bezos (Princeton)
  3. Mark Zukerberg (Harvard)
  4. Larry Ellison (Chicago)
  5. Larry Page ( Michigan)
  6. Sergey Brinn (Maryland)
  7. Steve Ballmer (Harvard)
  8. Michael Dell
  9. Paul Allen
    Dustin Moskovitz(Harvard)
    Eric Schmidt(Princeton)

None of theses top high tech billionaires are from Stanford undergrad ??? I thought Stanford is known for strong high tech engineering/computer science programs and entrepreneurial mindset.
Can anyone explain ?
Who is the most successful Stanford undergrad in High-tech startup area ???

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Add to this list

Drew Houston (Dropbox/MIT)
Elon Musk (UPenn)
Travis Kalanick (Uber/UCLA),
Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia (AirBnB/Rhode Island Design),
Nathan Blecharczyk((AirBnB/Harvard).

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Again I see a very strong dominance of Harvard undergrads even in High-tech area. I really can not find any Stanford undergrads who become successful in tech startup area.

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I don’t think it was the college that made your list successful anyway.

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According to the internet, Instagram, StubHub, LinkedIn, PayPal, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Glassdoor, and Coursera were all at least partially founded by Stanford students or professors.

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From a 2013 article

Full article link

http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/the-billionaire-factory-why-stanford-university-produces-so-many-celebrated-web-entrepreneurs-8706573.html

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Stanford #1 is venture capital entrepreneurs.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/236912

Oh and it’s sunny and around 70 degrees today. :)>-

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Even though Stanford raised more venture capital funds, and provided much more resources and located at the heard of Silicon Valley, why none of the top 10 high tech entrepreneurs are from Stanford Undergrad ?

  1. Bill Gates (Harvard)
  2. Jeff Bezos (Princeton)
  3. Mark Zukerberg (Harvard)
  4. Larry Ellison (Chicago)
  5. Larry Page ( Michigan)
  6. Sergey Brinn (Maryland)
  7. Steve Ballmer (Harvard)
  8. Michael Dell
  9. Paul Allen
    Dustin Moskovitz(Harvard)
    Eric Schmidt(Princeton)

Stanford undergrads founded numerous number of starts-ups, but still none of them are on the top 10 list ? Stanford advertises so much about entrepreneurship, but the reality is that none of Stanford undergrads are good enough to be top 10 ???

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Assuming the list is actually correct, I’d be more interested in mean and median measurements.

And other than Zuckerberg and Sergey (I call him by his first name, because he plays the same sport at the same club as my kid and I say “uh, hi”), they’re OLD guys. A forward-looking measurement might yield a completely different picture.

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What’s so special about the “top ten”? What intrinsic quality do they have that #11 doesn’t?

Rankings are silly. Gonna tell me Instagram and LinkedIn and Snapchat are too small to merit notice? lol.

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William Redington Hewlett and David Packard. Both went to Stanford.

Leonard Bosack, co-founder of Cisco, went to Stanford. From wikipedia:
“During his time at Stanford, he was credited for becoming a support engineer for a 1981 project to connect all of Stanford’s mainframes, minis, LISP machines and Altos. His contribution was to work on the network router that allowed the computer network under his management to share data from the Computer Science Lab with the Business School’s network. He met his wife Sandra Lerner at Stanford, where she was the manager of the Business School lab, and the couple married in 1980.[5] Together in 1984 they started Cisco in Menlo Park.”

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Also Rami Rahim, current CEO of Juniper networks:

“Rahim earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He completed an intensive six-week executive program at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.”

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More importantly, how many Stanford football players will be drafted in the first round of the NFL draft? How many from HYP? :))

Seriously, they’re all superb universities. To me the only difference is that I can wear shorts, flip flops and a T essentially all year long. Oh and Stanford has a linear accelerator (SLAC).

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Yang guy of Yahoo; Jen-Hsun Huang of NVDA. NVDA has a huge potential. Just google “The 30 most successful Stanford alumni of all time”. Even JFK took some courses at Stanford.

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I will agree that a lot of well know Stanford alums are graduate rather than undergraduate alums, but still . . . the list of very successful Stanford undergrad alums in technology is long. Such as - just a few examples - Evan Spiegel, Reid Hoffman, Keith Rabois, Joe Lonsdale, Jerry Yang, Bobby Murphy, Peter Thiel.

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Other than Drew Houston, any famous entrepreneurs from MIT?

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Top universities for VC backed startups

1.Stanford
2.Berkeley
3.MIT
4. Harvard
5. Penn
6. Cornell
7. Michigan
8. Texas
9. Tel Aviv
10. Illinois.

http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/09/the-top-universities-producing-vc-backed-entrepreneurs/

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Even though Stanford gets the most VC fund, why Stanford undergrads are less successful than the top 11 tech founders founders ??

  1. Bill Gates (Harvard)
  2. Jeff Bezos (Princeton)
  3. Mark Zukerberg (Harvard)
  4. Larry Ellison (Chicago)
  5. Larry Page ( Michigan)
  6. Sergey Brinn (Maryland)
  7. Steve Ballmer (Harvard)
  8. Michael Dell
  9. Paul Allen
    Dustin Moskovitz(Harvard)
    Eric Schmidt(Princeton)

Maybe it is unwise to invest on start-ups founded by Stanford undergrads ?

It appears that most start-ups by Stanford undergrads are mediocre level success even though largest VC funds are available. I think the best one is Whatsapp… right ?
Is that the best start-up currently produced by Stanford undergrads ?

Maybe the quality of Stanford undergrads are not as good as advertised ???

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lols… Stanford is the birthplace of Silicon Valley but keep flailing.

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You really are trying to tell us that Instagram, Snapchat, and LinkedIn are mediocre! What’s your agenda? You don’t seem to be reading any responses, just repeating the same baseless claims over and over.