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 .p132 - Italian company [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica | Luxottica ]] controls eyewear industry (11 companies listed) LensCrafters [[ brands | https://www.essilorluxottica.com/en/brands/eyewear/ ]]
  . list does not include my current [[ https://turboflexeyewear.com/ | TurboFlex ]] glasses frames [[ https://www.linkedin.com/company/turboflex/ | linkedin ]] Mont-Royal, Quebec		  .p132 - Italian company [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica | Luxottica ]] controls eyewear industry (11 companies listed) LensCrafters [[ https://www.essilorluxottica.com/en/brands/eyewear/ | brands ]]
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 .p13 - [[ | ]] 		 .p137 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes | Elizabeth Holmes ]] sophomore dropout for [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos | Theranos ]]
 .p138 Most VCs suck. 2% of VC firms generate 95% of industry's returns, average VC does not outperform average stock.
 .p138 stampede is AI, was crypto before that, was virtual reality before that
 .p138 Money focused on mythologized young founders
 .p139 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman | Sam Altman ]] dropped out of Stanford 2005, president [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator | Y Combinator, ]] CEO [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI | OpenAI ]]
 .p139 Some parts of Stanford committed to progress, advancement, and ethics. Others expressed best motivations but actually behaved badly.

How to Rule The World

An Education in Power at Stanford University

  • Theo Baker . 2026 . ( May 19 on Amazon )
  • HUNDREDS of CITATIONS NEEDED

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 - MTL - Stanford President, former biotech executive, renowned neuroscientist
    • searching for cause of Alzheimer's
  • 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

  • p015 - ch. 1 - Drafted to the War on Fun

  • 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?)
    • inaccurate ... normal conversation 60 dB. Sleep is disrupted at 40 dB. Sleep in a dorm is essential, public conversation after 10pm is disruptive and superfluous. A decent wall should reduce quiet conversation below audibility in a neighboring room
  • p022 - Stanford Social Life Accelerator Task Force
  • p022 - "all fun had disappeared". Try learning instead. Some of us still have fun learning 50 years after university.

  • p022 - grandfather Steve Glasser (legal educator) sounds like this Stephen Glasser295 - Coda

  • p023 - voracious reader

  • p025 - R.B. Brenner The Daily's advisory board

  • p025 - Coupa Cafe main meeting place on campus - which one of six?

  • p028 - Mary, former The Daily editor-in-chief

  • p028 - Lucy "US National Team athlete"
  • p028 - Sigma Nu fraternity president Moritz Stephan

  • p030 - John Doerr School of Sustainability

  • p031 - John Hennessy

  • p032 - [3[ | Sigma Ephow many pages are published in the United Statessilon ]]

  • p033 - Sam Catania editor of Stanford Daily

  • p035 - ch. 2 - The Impostor

  • p053 - ch. 3 - Coupa Circuit

  • p073 - ch. 4 - Binary Bomb

  • p099 - ch. 5 - A Fucking Menace

  • p099 - "If I woke tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised than I am right now."
    • "from a Brit" ... actually Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) in "Christmas Vacation" 1989

  • p101 - Slack Channel

  • p101 - Slack channel called "slay" for Stanford daily editors
  • p102 - Stanford board of 33 trustees, no nonprofit leaders or other academics, mostly prominent business people

  • p102 - José E. Feliciano Puerto Rican businessman and investor

  • p103 - Science editor-in-chief Holden Thorp email, said Tessier-Lavigne contacted Science in 2015 (4 years before Thorp) requesting corrections, Science erred and did not issue corrections

  • p103 - Theo Baker's rhetorical question "how could they have failed to publish corrections?"
    • Science Magazine prints about a million words a year, far more offline, AAAS also prints five other journals
    • Science Magazine fails to publish 99.999% (WAG) of all that is printed in the world.

    • Theo Baker's constructive response could be a "Letter to the Editor", not petulant, impatient demands of the editor-in-chief

  • p104 - "a scientist in Tessier-Lavigne's field" mentioned concerns about some of these papers in the early 2000's

  • p105 - Special Committee of the Board Jerry Yang,Carol Lam,Jeffrey Stone,Jim Coulter,andFelix Baker

  • p105 - Nancy Olivieri well known whistleblower

  • p105 only Felix Baker was scientist, PhD immunology from Stanford, avoids the press

  • p106 - Baker invested in Denali Therapeutics, cofounded by Tessier-Lavigne in 2015, conflict of interest

  • p106 - Aidan Ryan crisis communication executive at powerful Edelman public relations firm

  • p107 - Richard Smith former editor in chief of BMJ - British Medical Association Journal

  • p108 - David Chassin at SLAC

  • p108 - review by Kirkland & Ellis, largest revenue law firm in the world

  • p108 - Mark Filip chosen by Stanford

  • p109 - Filip represented BP in Deepwater Horizon spill, and other huge corporate scandal

  • p110 - Tessier-Lavinge stanford.edu website

  • p110 - Susan McConnell and husband Richard Scheller close friends of Tessier-Lavinge and wife Mary Hynes

  • p111 -202? Science and Cell Editorial Expressions of Concern

  • p111 - Baker did not attempt heap allocator, B- for CS107 course

  • p112 - $29.2M civil fraud suit payment by Stanford professor Stan Cohen

  • p112 - invented recombinant DNA technology with Herb Boyer, who co-founded Genentech

  • p112 - Richard Scheller

  • p112 - Stanford earned hundreds of millions of dollars from 1980s Boyer-Cohen patents

  • p113 - 62% of Stanford's total patent income

  • p113 - In 2016 Cohen claimed cure for Huntington's disease

  • p113 - Novartis paid $3B in 2024 for PTC518

  • p113 - Cohen claimed older compound HD106 compound treated for Huntington disease

    • treatment for Psoriasis in 1970s?
  • p114 - FDA withdrew approval in 1976 after drug caused loss of limbs and death

  • p114 - Cohen defrauded Alafi friends, and cheated on wife, hired girlfriend CITATION NEEDED

  • p115 - Alafis won fraud lawsuit against Cohen, $29M paid 2022 December
  • p115 - Stanford communications claimed no knowledge of lawsuit, legal very involved
  • p116 - no punishment or condemnation for Cohen
  • p116 - Cohen's lawyers send threat letter to author Baker and Stanford Daily editor Sam Catania
  • p117 - Christmas gift from parents: "Theo Baker is a fucking menace!" T-shirt

  • p119 - ch. 6 - Rule

  • p119 - Derek "an adult version of Ivan" ???

  • p119 - Unicorn Founder of startup that reaches $1B valuation, only 0.5% do so

    • footnote: 17% of all unicorns founded by Stanford alumni or faculty

  • p120 - The Rosewood ≥$40K/night, "the modern clubhouse for Silicon Valley" on Sand Hill Road ... "a bunch of boring strip-mall offices near Stanford

  • p121 - "business facing" - tech services for Muammar el-Qaddafi

  • p122 - Justin: no spot for Theo in cohort for quarter
  • p122 VCs fund 1% of companies reviewed, higher ratio for Stanford students

  • p123 - SAFE Simple agreement for future equity, pre-seed funding for the right to buy

  • p123 - pre-idea funding

  • p124 - Hacker Houses

  • p124 - student Builders

  • p125 - Ann Miura-Ko Twitch cofounder

  • p126 - Amber Yang The Space Junk Apocalypse seertracking.com ... defunct?

  • p127 - Noor Siddiqui NYT interview Orchid

  • p128 - Jessie Mischa

  • p128 - Justin first startup space-focused, angered VC funder
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  • Janet 130 131 133 134 135 136

  • p131 - Phoebe Gates Phia shopping assistant

  • p131 - Janet, Arjun
  • p132 - Justin, Billy, Boris, Arjun

  • p132 - Italian company Luxottica controls eyewear industry (11 companies listed) LensCrafters brands

    • list does not include my current TurboFlex glasses frames linkedin Mont-Royal, Quebec

  • p135 - Janet cheats on CS assignment, also estranged from East Coast family

  • p136 - Stanford Steve Blank Lean Launch Pad wikipedia

  • p137 - Blank: 100% of entrepreneurs think they are visionaries, data say 99% aren't.
  • p137 - Hennessy: most successful startups by grad students, not undergraduates

  • p137 - Elizabeth Holmes sophomore dropout for Theranos

  • p138 Most VCs suck. 2% of VC firms generate 95% of industry's returns, average VC does not outperform average stock.
  • p138 stampede is AI, was crypto before that, was virtual reality before that
  • p138 Money focused on mythologized young founders

  • p139 Sam Altman dropped out of Stanford 2005, president Y Combinator, CEO OpenAI

  • p139 Some parts of Stanford committed to progress, advancement, and ethics. Others expressed best motivations but actually behaved badly.

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