How to Rule The World
An Education in Power at Stanford University
- Theo Baker . 2026 . ( May 19 on Amazon )
No index, very difficult to follow the names through the text, so here's a list
- p001 - Tresidder Memorial Union - food court
- p002 - Justin
- p003 - comparison of summed public company values to GDPs (a 12 month sum) of countries
- p004 - Bob Martin - software pioneer
- p004 - Peter Thiel - Palantir founder
- p004 - Alex Karp - Palantir current CEO
- p004 - Ilya Sutskever - Safe Superintelligence founder
- p005 - ... - Thinking Machines startup
- p006 - Marc Tessier-Lavigne - Stanford President, former biotech executive, renowned neuroscientist
- p007 - the Farm - Leland Stanford's horse farm
- p007 - John Hennessy - Stanford President 2000 to 2016
- p008 - William Shockley - Stanford Research Park
- p008 - 150 companies in Park: Tesla, Google, Lyft
- p008 - Sand Hill Road
- p008 - Stanford's own VC fund
- p009 - Google from grad student's garage (?)
p009 - Stanford adjacent: Instagram, DoorDash, 40,000 active companies
Anthropic, Capital One, Cisco, Electronic Arts, Expedia, LinkedIn, Netflix, Nike, OpenAI, Yahoo!, Zilloq
not expect: Bain&Company, Charles Schwab, Trader Joe's, TSMC(??), Victoria's Secret
- p009 - Nvidia founder Jensen Huang: "dawn till dusk, 7 d/wk, 52 wk/y
- p009 - Chamath Palihapitiya, 150 men rule the world, politicians all puppets
- p010 - Ray Lyman Wilbur, 1922? Stanford president, First Million club
p012 - Scott Turow One L book about first year at Harvard Law School
- p016 - Makeshift boats for Lake Lagunita, motorized couches to get to class
- p016 - Wacky Walk, dress up as catholic Cardinals
- p017 - Campus 8180 acres, 8000 undergraduates
p017 - Hewlett and Packad, 1938 garage, $538 -> $12170 2026 dollars
p017 - Alondra the nerd dorm
- p018 - everyone lives on campus
p018 - Synergy nudist dorm, Enchanted Broccolo Forest marijuana dorm, Terra judgy gay dorm
p018 - SLE Structured Liberal Education One great book per week freshman year
- p019 - Eurotrash, first party of the year at Kappa Sigma, cancelled by university
p020 - Party Review Committee, 6 departments, titles SUPER, OSE, SUDPS, RedEd, SUFMO, and FSL
- p020 - Harm Reduction Plan
- p021 - Stanford motto "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." Let the winds of freedom blow
- p022 - Officially, no noise more than 55dB after 10pm ... "average conversation is 70db" (refrigerator is 55dB?)
- p022 - Stanford Social Life Accelerator Task Force
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