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 .p208 - +[[ https://www.philiptaubman.com/ | Phil Taubman ]] NYT correspondent, wife +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicity_Barringer | Felicity Barringer ]] Stanford Daily editors in the 1970s
 .p210 - +[[ https://www.linkedin.com/in/fritzbittenbender/ | Fritz Bittenbender ]] Genentech VP public affairs
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 .p211 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Darnton | John Darnton ]] calls, 2022 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Polk_Awards | Polk Award ]] for Theo, youngest winner ever
 .p213 - +[[https://stanforddaily.com/author/cduran/ | Cameron Duran ]] professional layout man at Stanford Daily
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 .p218 - replica Hewlett Packard shed inside Huang Center
 .p219 - MTL letter did not mention that his own colleagues made the allegations in the paper

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 - C+hamath 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 Debian User Forums 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 Glasser p295 - 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 - Sigma Epsilon

  • 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,and+Felix 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 2010 spill, and other huge corporate scandal

  • p??? - +Captain Kohei Asoh ]] JAL flight that landed feet 150 short of the SFO runway into the bay

  • 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

  • p112 - invented recombinant DNA technology with [+[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Boyer | Herb Boyer, ]] who co-founded Genentech

  • p112 - Richard Scheller (p110)

  • 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 facubutton cell phone with backspacelty

  • 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: meet +Mischa
  • p128 - +Justin first startup space-focused, angered VC funder
    • Justin 129 130 131 132 133 134
    • 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.

  • p141 - ch. 7 - Duck Syndrome

  • p141 - "Turkey Drop:" relationships ending around Thanksgiving
  • p141-2 Baker's failed relationship with +Lily Zhou

  • p142 COVID still a thing in January 2023. 3400 deaths per week in the US, extrapolated from wikipedia graph

  • p143 - Situationships

  • p143 - Lily
  • p143 - Relationships among people my age at an all time low

  • p144 - Washington Post +Philip Graham (reporting is) the first rough draft of history

  • p144 - Stan Cohen Stanford professor fraud suit p112
  • p146 - +Frank, friend from high school flying in to spend 18th birthday weekend

  • p147 - death of +Blake Hounshell, depression, suicide

  • p148 - small, abused by other school children
  • p149 - Blake jumped off bridge "barely three blocks away" ... from parent's home?
  • p150 - 30% of high school students experience depression, 20% contemplate suicide, 10% attempt it
  • p151 - 10 to 24yo suicides increased 62% between 2007 and 2021, leading cause of preventable death

  • p151 - Duck Syndrome gliding across surface, paddling desperately below

  • p151 - +Katie Meyer

  • p152 - +Frank, best friend from home

  • p153 - Theo Baker surprise birthday party at the Daily House

  • p155 - ch. 8 - Harriet the Spy

  • p155 - MTL: " ... you can spot a Canadian on a crowded street ... the person who's saying please and thank you to the ATM machine."
  • p156 MTL capable of immense rage, p157 singular ambition

  • p157 - netrin guides axon growth, 1994

  • p159 - gift authorship

  • p160 - MTL provided reagents to other projects and authors, added as co-author for their paper

  • p161 - Review scientists +Shirley Tilghman +Steve Hyman +Randy Schekman +Hollis Cline +Kafui Dzirasa

  • p162 - investigation of Stanford head football coach +Troy Taylor investigated twice, ESPN investigated and was sued by Taylor

  • p162 - parents of Sam Bankman-Fried, former dean of freshman and coercive sexual relationship with student

  • p163 - +Stanford cofounder Jane Stanford poisoned 1905, husband buried truth

  • p164 - MTL collaborator +Cori Bargmann

  • p165 - MTL collaborator +Corey Goodman shared Gruber Prize

  • p165 - author says MTL took a reagent from Goodman's lab and published before them
  • p165 first "falsified panels" paper in Cell 1999, two others in Science 2001

  • p165 - Richard Scheller (p110) Stanford 1982 to 2001, then Genentech

  • p165 - twenty years later, some colleagues said MTL had been nakedly careerist CITATION NEEDED

  • p166 - SLE Structured Liberal Education

  • p167 - +arancini stuffed fried breaded riceballs

  • p167 - dinner-mates say Sam Bankman-Fried directionally correct, "how do I get around this?"
  • p168 - "spilled AI tea"??? "dishing" sharing gossip

  • p168 - freshman with half-baked idea wanted NDA before discussing it with Rob Reich

  • p169 - idea secrecy paired with admissions of wrongdoing

  • p169 - "menage a trois" sandwiches

  • p169 - used Treehacks office after hours to serve corporate sponsors that The Stanford Daily would normally investigate

  • p170 - going to Genentech interview, Baker sees MTL coming the other way
  • p170 - walked out hours in a different universe. jackpot???
    • with dates and days missing, it is difficult to track author's timeline. Jackpot when and how?

  • p173 - ch. 9 - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION

  • p173 - 2009, MTL claims Alzheimer's was not amyloid beta, but N-APP fragment of APP binding to DR6 (tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 21, TNRFS21)

  • p174 - RETRACTED ARTICLE: APP binds DR6 to trigger axon pruning and neuron death via distinct caspases

  • p175 - Big news splash, Genentech patents, fail to reproduce, fabricated data
  • p175 - MTL deliberately hid paper's manipulations
  • p176 - Genentech internal inquiry: not reproducable, "faked" using "made up" figures
  • p177 - MTL wouldn't retract, walked back claims in two lower-readership journals

  • p177 - +Anatoly Nikolaev

  • p177 - Promotions for Nikolaev, MTL to Chief Scientific Officer
  • p178 - Nikolaev left biotech, retrained at Michigan community college, Florida radiation oncologist

  • p179 - Genentech hired misconduct expert David Vaux

  • p179 - four senior Genentech people independently told the same story
  • p180 - Most sources offered deeply anguished views of MTK
  • p181 - MTL never retracted, continued to cite paper

  • p181 - MTL joined Regeneron board, highest paid in the S&P 500, earned $80M

  • p181 - MTL cofounded Denali Theraputics in 2017, largest biotech IPO of the year

  • p181 - MTL current net worth $500M

  • p182 - Baker shares writup with Washington Post science editor +Tracy Jan and +Glenn Kramon

  • p183 - Journalism advice: "Kill your darlings" - remove superfluous detail, even if brilliantly written
  • p184 - argues with Stanford Daily editor Sam Catania (p033)

  • p184 - Journalism lecturer +R. B. Brenner

  • p185 - DJing Disc jockey-ing (as a verb)

  • p185 - Daily staffer +Marie

  • p185 - Alondra Dorm mate +Sylvia

  • p185 - +Muwekma Ohlone bay area tribe

  • p186 - Sylvia and drunk friend +Darren
  • p186 - single sexiest college sentence: "I don't have a roommate"
  • p187 - Sergio again (p91) brilliant older friend and SLE resident tutor

  • p188 - Sam (Catania) editing Daily article

  • p189 - Daily board chair +Andrew Bridges attorney at Fenwick & West

  • p189 - +Ambika Kumar and +Eric Stahl at Davis Wright Tremaine

  • p190 - HFO / hold-for-order articles, prewrites

  • p190 - +Niko photographer

  • p191 - MTL's Volkswagen electric ID.4

  • p192 - Stanford Building 10 president's office

  • p194 - +Persis Drell provost

  • p196 - letter from attorney representing MTL

  • p197 - ch. 10 - The Good Paper

  • p197 - +Charles Keating Jr. swimmer / financier / felon / S&L crisis / $4.3B civil judgement

  • p198 - Lawyer +Steve Neal reversed Keating convictions

  • p199 - Cooley law firm represented Theranos +Elizabeth Holmes, now MTL

  • p199 - Threatening letter to Theo Baker
  • p201 - 2009 N-APP paper described as incorrect in 2014 by MTL

  • p203 - +Matthew Schrag Vanderbilt professor uncovered rampant fraud about a different Alzheimer's study

  • p204 - Schrag discovered that his mentor +Othman Ghrigbi had manipulated data

  • p204 - Schrag offers to mentor Theo Baker
  • p204 - the panel had been 100% confident that [the issues] weren't innocent

  • p205 - Theo Baker missing classes, Stanford resident director +Kenneth Graham concerned

  • p207 - MTL "Let me underscore this: the data were reproducible", referencing papers that did not replicate MTL's 2009 N-APP-DR6 binding claim

  • p207 - +Ryan Watts MTL's "Denali" cofounder

  • p207 - reference to a Biogen paper published by "Nature Medicine' - cannot find citation
  • p208 - in second interview, Nikolaev claims 2009 paper doesn't mention Alzheimer's, actually 31 times including abstract
  • p208 - four Genentech senior members whose recollections matched

  • p208 - +Phil Taubman NYT correspondent, wife +Felicity Barringer Stanford Daily editors in the 1970s

  • p210 - +Fritz Bittenbender Genentech VP public affairs

    • asked for documents to help with due diligence

  • p211 - +John Darnton calls, 2022 Polk Award for Theo, youngest winner ever

  • p213 - +Cameron Duran professional layout man at Stanford Daily

  • p214 - Sam to printers: "let's spring for the good paper"

  • p216 - Bill Grueskin Columbia professor and former senior editor at the Wall Street Journal

  • p216 - "Every paragraph is a grenade, except for the ones that are 1000 pound bombs"
  • p218 - replica Hewlett Packard shed inside Huang Center
  • p219 - MTL letter did not mention that his own colleagues made the allegations in the paper

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