“I would never hire a Harvard undergraduate again. I think it’s a failed credential.”

Harvard is over as a credential. As is academia more broadly. What comes next?

Probably not you, but a lot of your VC colleagues are saying the same thing, but then you look at who they hire and its mostly the Stanford, Berkeley, and Harvard alumni

We hire from people in crypto. And I went to Harvard and Stanford too.

This is an extreme overstatement and I think you know that — the hard sciences (math, physics, compsci) at Harvard are still incredibly elite.

They dropped the SAT and then (later) restored it. But the graduates in the intervening period are not incredibly elite. In general rigor has fallen off.

“a failed credential” is a vibe — transformation is here

*Not* hiring someone based on the credential feels like an overreaction and is itself still anchoring to its status You need a fully alternative filter that is some mix of like an IQ test + a domain-specific aptitude, and then apply that filter completely blind to the boolean of "Harvard degree" or "x credential"

Interesting that we label people in all manner of ways and place them in boxes, then pick from those boxes based on those labels (Harvard), and think we are doing our best. Lose the labels.

Harvard? More like Hardly!

Don't show me your diploma from Harvard. Show me your bangers on X.