No index, difficult to track 177 names through the text, so here's a web-searchable list of pages with +[name] for each first occurrence, not including acknowledgements . http://wiki.keithl.com/StanfordRuleWorld ------- === How to Rule The World === ==== An Education in Power at Stanford University ==== . [[ https://theobaker.info/ | Theo Baker ]] . 2026 . ( May 19 on Amazon ) .HUNDREDS of CITATIONS NEEDED No index, difficult to track 177 names through the text, so here's a web-searchable list of pages with +[name] for each first occurence, not including acknowledgements . parents +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Glasser | Susan Glasser ]] of the New Yorker and +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Baker_%28journalist%29 | Peter Baker ]] of the New York Times, not mentioned by name in the book .p001 - [[ https://tresidder.stanford.edu/tresidder-memorial-union | Tresidder Memorial Union - food court ]] .p002 - +Justin - secret class for promising people .p003 - comparison of summed public company values to GDPs (a 12 month sum) of countries .p004 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Martin | Bob Martin - software pioneer ]] .p004 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel | Peter Thiel ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies| Palantir founder ]] .p004 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp | Alex Karp - Palantir current CEO ]] .p004 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Sutskever | Ilya Sutskever - Safe Superintelligence founder ]] .p005 - ... - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation | Thinking Machines ]] startup .p006 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Tessier-Lavigne | Marc Tessier-Lavigne - MTL ]] - Stanford President, former biotech executive, renowned neuroscientist . searching for cause of Alzheimer's .p007 - the Farm - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Stanford | Leland Stanford's ]] horse farm .p007 - +[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy | John Hennessy - Stanford President 2000 to 2016 ]] .p008 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley | William Shockley ]] - Stanford Research Park .p008 - 150 companies in Park: Tesla, Google, Lyft .p008 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Hill_Road | 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 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia | Nvidia ]] founder +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Huang | Jensen Huang:]] "dawn till dusk, 7 d/wk, 52 wk/y .p009 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamath_Palihapitiya | Chamath Palihapitiya ]], 150 men rule the world, politicians all puppets .p010 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Lyman_Wilbur | Ray Lyman Wilbur,]] 1922? Stanford president, First Million club .p012 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Turow | 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 [[ https://moriartyfh.com/obituaries/stephen-glasser | Stephen Glasser ]] p295 - Coda .p023 - voracious reader .p025 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brenner | 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 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doerr | John Doerr ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Doerr_School_of_Sustainability | Doerr School of Sustainability ]] .p031 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy | John Hennessy ]] .p032 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_Phi_Epsilon | Sigma Phi Epsilon ]] SigEp .p033 - +[[ https://stanforddaily.com/author/samcat/ | Sam Catania ]] editor of Stanford Daily ------ .'''p035 - ch. 2 - The Impostor''' ----- .p035 - + Logan - wealth-obsessed junior, also from DC like Theo Baker, $750K Ferrari, "FALIURE" license plate .p035 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_Pact | Stanford Marriage Pact ]] algorithmicly match students using survey responses (p50) .p037 - congressional Republicans "120%? more semantically similar" to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon | QAnon ]] .p037 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI| OpenAI's ]] seminal [[ https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03374 | 72 page Codex paper in 2021 ]] (age 16 ) .p038 - 10X engineer .p038 - +[[ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/people/lily-zhou | Lily Zhou ]] 1 year younger .p039 - +16yo Software genius Nick, important published paper when high school sophomore .p039 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Internet_Observatory | Stanford Internet Observatory ]] .p040 - [[ https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs109/ | CS109 ]] Weeder class .p040 - [[ https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/Stanford-admission-requirements | Stanford admission rate 3.6% ]] .p041 - Stanford > $95K / year .p043 - +[[ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bae | bae ]] sweetheart, baby .p043 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Curry | William Curry ]] living in Harvard Dorm, imposter from Alabama .p044 - +Alisha freshman .p044 - +Graham resident suspicious of Curry, same high school .p045 - +Cassidy another news writer .p045 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs | Steve Jobs ]] also "pre-habited" dorms at Reed before matriculation .p050 - majority of Marriage Pact Stanford CS students would rather cheat than fail .p051 - [[ https://fizz.social/ | Fizz ]] discussion and news feed platform ------ .'''p053 - ch. 3 - Coupa Circuit''' ----- .p053 - [[ https://treehacks.com/ | TreeHacks ]] .p055 - +Sara ? started and ran half a dozen hackathons. projected hyper-competence .p055 - +Vedant? p67 p68 p81 p170 p274 .p058 - +Ivan? yo "coupa circuit fixer" .p059 - Sequoia, Lightspeed, Pear, CRV, Founders Fund, Accel, Social Capital, Spark Capital .p060 - [[ https://www.ncsasports.org/recruiting/how-to-get-recruited/college-divisions | D1 Sports ]] .p063 - +Julian .p063 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Lagunita | Lake Laguinita Yacht Club ]] (no longer filled with scarce water) .p065 - [[ https://bases.stanford.edu/ | BASES ]] Business Association of Stanford Entreprenuerial Students .p066 - Plucked ... Stanford students found early and groomed for wealth creation .p066 - Friends and Family ... a Builders Society hosting hackathons and dispensing $10K mocro-grants .p066 - [[ https://pear.vc/programs/dorm/garage/ | Pear Garage ]] .p066 - [[ https://www.floodgate.com/reactor-v1 | Floodgate Reactor ]] .p066 - [[ https://joininteract.com/ | Interact Fellowship ]] .p066 - [[ https://exhibits.stanford.edu/syllabi/catalog/fb022qx4341 | ME410 Introductory Foresight and Technological Innovation ]] .p066 - [[ https://stvp.stanford.edu/students/fellows-programs/mayfield-fellows-program | Mayfield Fellows Program ]] .p066 - How to Rule The World - Justin's secret class .p067 - Treehacks at mansion in the hills .p068 - +Parth at Treehacks .p068 - +Jackson founder from Nebraska at Treehacks .p069 - FOTH - Friend of the House .p069 - +senior named George .p070 - +Riya sapling at Treehacks .p070 - Bruh: brother .p071 - +Jessica sapling at Treehacks .p073 - +Jacob recent Stanford graduate, fan of War on Fun article ------ .'''p073 - ch. 4 - Binary Bomb''' ----- .p073 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubPeer | PubPeer ]] .p075 - +Karsten, encountered years earlier, warned about MTL .p076 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 | Therac-25 ]] .p076 - +[[ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrycainjr/ | Jerry Cain ]] .p077 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried | SBF Sam-Bankman-Fried ]] .p077 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alameda_Research | Alameda Research ]] .p078 - +[[ https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/rob-reich | Rob Reich ]] .p078 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism | Effective Altruism ]] .p080 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes | Elizabeth Holmes ]] .p080 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Draper | Tim Draper ]] .p080 - [[ https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/193794/stanford-the-game | Stanford - The Game ]] .p080 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Kwon | Do Kwon ]] created cryptocurrencies [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_(blockchain) | Luna and TerraUSD ]] .p080 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Bowen | Bowen ]] and +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Monsees | Monsees ]] .p081 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juul| Juul ]] .p083 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Bik | Elizabeth Bik ]] Biology's Image Detective .p084 type 1: identical duplications . type 2: shifted or rotated . type 3 duplication of sections, most likely intentional alteration .p085 - "level of alteration that suggests an intent to mislead" .p086 - [[ https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1058445 | retracted 2001 MTL article in Science ]] .p087 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Tessier-Lavigne | MTL ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrin | netrins ]] .p087 - MTL UCSF, 2 years at Stanford, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genentech | Genentech ]], 2011 President [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_University | Rockefeller University ]] 2016 President Stanford .p087 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubPeer | PubPeer ]], post publication peer review .p088 - Bik: nearly 4% of published studies include problematic figures .p088 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubPeer | PubPeer ]] and [[ https://retractionwatch.com/ | Retraction Watch blog ]] .pFelix Baker089 - CS107 [[ https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs107/cs107.1194/assign6/ | Binary Bomb ]] .p090-91 Lily .p091 - friend +Sergio, +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Schekman | Randy Schekman ]], +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollis_Cline | Hollis Cline ]] .p094 - +[[ https://www.dwt.com/ | Davis Wright Tremaine ]] top First Amendment law firm on the West Coast .p094 - +[[ https://journalism.stanford.edu/people/rb-brenner | R.B. Brenner ]] .p094 - +[[ https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/tracy-jan/ | Tracy Jan ]] at Washington Post .p095 - +[[ https://stanforddaily.com/author/mifu67/ | Michele ]] graphics editor of Stanford Daily .p095 - +[[ https://www.linkedin.com/in/deemostofi/ | Dee Mostofi ]] Stanford spokesperson .p097 - +[[ https://www.dwt.com/people/s/stahl-eric-m | Eric Stahl ]], a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine ------ .'''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 - [[ https://slack.com/features/channels | 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 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E._Feliciano | José E. Feliciano ]] Puerto Rican businessman and investor .p103 - +Science editor-in-chief [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Thorp | 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 Meyer Tessier-Lavigne's field" mentioned concerns about some of these papers in the early 2000's .p105 - Special Committee of the Board [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Yang | +Jerry Yang, ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Lam | +Carol Lam, ]] [[ n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Stone_(California_and_Nevada_politician) | +Jeffrey Stone, ]][[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Coulter_(financier) | +Jim Coulter, ]] and [[ https://www.forbes.com/profile/felix-baker/ | +Felix Baker ]] .p105 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Olivieri | +Nancy Olivieri ]] well known whistleblower .p105 only Felix Baker was scientist, PhD immunology from Stanford, avoids the press .p106 - Felix Baker invested in [[ https://denalitherapeutics.com/ | Denali Therapeutics, ]] cofounded by Tessier-Lavigne in 2015, conflict of interest .p106 - [[ https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidanryan/ | +Aidan Ryan ]] crisis communication executive at powerful [[ https://www.edelman.com/ | Edelman ]] public relations firm .p107 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Smith_(editor) | +Richard Smith ]] former editor in chief of [[ https://www.bmj.com/ | BMJ - British Medical Association Journal ]] .p108 - [[ https://powernet.stanford.edu/people/david-chassin | +David Chassin ]] at SLAC .p108 - review by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkland_%26_Ellis | Kirkland & Ellis, ]] largest revenue law firm in the world .p108 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Filip | +Mark Filip ]] chosen by Stanford . clerk for Supreme Court Justice [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Scalia | +Antonin Scalia ]] .p109 - Filip represented [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP | BP ]] in [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill | Deepwater Horizon ]] 2010 spill, and other huge corporate scandal .p??? - +Captain Kohei Asoh [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Flight_2 | JAL flight that landed feet 150 short of the SFO runway into the bay ]] .p110 - [[ https://tessier-lavigne.stanford.edu/ | Tessier-Lavinge stanford.edu website ]] .p110 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_McConnell | +Susan McConnell ]] and husband [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Scheller | +Richard Scheller ]] close friends of Tessier-Lavinge and wife [[ https://biology.stanford.edu/people/mary-hynes | +Mary Hynes ]] .p111 -202? [[ https://www.science.org/ | Science ]] and [[ https://www.cell.com/ | Cell ]] Editorial Expressions of Concern .p111 - Theo did not attempt heap allocator, B- for CS107 course .p112 - [[ https://stanforddaily.com/2022/12/21/stanford-professor-pays-29m-in-fraud-case/ | $29.2M civil fraud suit payment ]] by Stanford professor + [[ http://baypedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cohen_(biochemist) | Stan Cohen ]] .p112 - invented [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinant_DNA | recombinant DNA technology ]] with [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Boyer | Herb Boyer, ]] who co-founded [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genentech | Genentech ]] .p112 - Richard Scheller (p110) .p112 - Stanford earned hundreds of millions of dollars from 1980s [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Norman_Cohen#Patents | Boyer-Cohen patents ]] .p113 - 62% of Stanford's total patent income .p113 - In 2016 Cohen claimed cure for [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington%27s_disease | Huntington's disease ]] . p113 - HD106 compound "approved in the 1970s for treating a different condition .p113 - [[ https://www.novartis.com/ | Novartis ]] paid $3B in 2024 for [[ https://www.novartis.com/news/novartis-bolsters-neuroscience-pipeline-licensing-ptc518-huntingtons-disease | PTC518 ]] .p113 - Cohen claimed older compound [[ | HD106 ]] compound treated for Huntington disease . treatment for Psoriasis in 1970s? .p114 - FDA withdrew approval in 1976 after HD106 caused loss of limbs and death .p114 - Cohen defrauded [[ https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2024/h050485.html | 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 Theo 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 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(finance) | 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 - [[ https://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/sand-hill-menlo-park | The Rosewood ]] ≥$40K/night, "the modern clubhouse for Silicon Valley" on [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Hill_Road | Sand Hill Road ]] ... "a bunch of boring strip-mall offices near Stanford .p121 - "business facing" - tech services for [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi | 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 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_agreement_for_future_equity | SAFE ]] Simple agreement for future equity, pre-seed funding for the right to buy .p123 - pre-idea funding .p124 - [[ https://www.businessinsider.com/managing-san-francisco-hacker-house-changed-founders-life-pros-cons-2025-11 | Hacker Houses ]] .p124 - student [[ https://claude.com/programs/campus | Builders ]] .p125 - +[[ https://ann.vc/ | Ann Miura-Ko ]] +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_%28service%29 | Twitch ]] cofounder .p126 - [[ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amber-yang/ | Amber Yang ]] [[ https://globalyouth.wharton.upenn.edu/articles/entrepreneurs-leaders/5-questions-amber-yang-master-space-debris-apocalypse/ | The Space Junk Apocalypse ]] [[ https://web.archive.org/web/20211127025607/https://www.seertracking.com/ | seertracking.com ]] ... defunct? .p127 Amber helped found weekly [[ https://nofiltertalks.com/ | No Filter Club ]] .p127 - +[[ https://noorsiddiqui.com/ | Noor Siddiqui ]] [[ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/opinion/genetics-children-noor-siddiqui.html | NYT interview ]] [[ https://www.orchidhealth.com/ | Orchid ]] .p128 - +Jessie: meets +Mischa .p128 - +Justin first startup space-focused, angered VC funder .P128 - How To Rule The World class called "Rule", 12 participants . Justin 129 130 131 132 133 134 . Janet 130 131 133 134 135 136 .p131 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Gates | Phoebe Gates ]] [[ https://phia.com/ | Phia shopping assistant ]] .p131 - +Janet, +Arjun .p132 - Justin, +Billy, +Boris, Arjun .p132 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_%28programmer%29 | Paul Graham ]] .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 ]] .list does not include my current [[ https://turboflexeyewear.com/ | TurboFlex ]] glasses frames [[ https://www.linkedin.com/company/turboflex/ | linkedin ]] Mont-Royal, Quebec .p133 - Justin's classes focused on extracting value from others .p134 - Justin "hit on" female pupils .p135 - "Builder" Janet cheats on CS assignment, also estranged from East Coast family .p136 - +Stanford [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Blank | Steve Blank ]] [[ https://leanlaunchpad.stanford.edu/ | Lean Launch Pad ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_Launchpad | 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 - +[[ 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. ------ .'''p141 - ch. 7 - Duck Syndrome''' ----- .p141 - "Turkey Drop:" relationships ending around Thanksgiving .p141-2 Theo's failed relationship with +Lily Zhou .p142 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States | COVID ]] still a thing in January 2023. 3400 deaths per week in the US, extrapolated from [[ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Timeline_of_weekly_confirmed_COVID-19_deaths_in_the_United_States.svg | wikipedia graph ]] .p143 - [[ https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-is-a-situationship | Situationships ]] .p143 - Lily .p143 - Relationships among people my age at an all time low .p144 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Graham#%22First_roughbutton cell phone with backspace_draft_of_history%22| 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 +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Hounshell | Blake Hounshell ]], depression, suicide . mother's professional friend, helped revive [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Policy | Foreign Policy magazine ]] .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 - [[ https://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/focus-dont-be-duck-how-resist-stanford-duck-syndrome | Duck Syndrome ]] gliding across surface, paddling desperately below .p151 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Meyer | Katie Meyer ]] .p152 - +Frank, best friend from home .p153 - Theo Baker surprise birthday party at the [[ https://maps.stanford.edu/ada/building-ada.cfm?FACIL_ID=02-595 | 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 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrin | netrin ]] guides axon growth, 1994 .p159 - [[ https://publicationethics.org/news-opinion/gift-authorship | gift authorship ]] .p160 - MTL provided reagents to other projects and authors, added as co-author for their paper .p161 - Review scientists +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_M._Tilghman | Shirley Tilghman ]] +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hyman | Steve Hyman ]] +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Schekman | Randy Schekman ]] +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollis_Cline | Hollis Cline ]] +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafui_Dzirasa | Kafui Dzirasa ]] .p162 - investigation of Stanford head football coach +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Taylor_(American_football) | Troy Taylor ]] investigated twice, ESPN investigated and was sued by Taylor .p162 - parents of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried | Sam Bankman-Fried ]], former dean of freshman and coercive sexual relationship with student .p163 - +Stanford cofounder [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Stanford | Jane Stanford ]] poisoned 1905, husband buried truth .p164 - MTL collaborator +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Bargmann | Cori Bargmann ]] .p165 - MTL collaborator +[[ https://www.venbio.com/team/corey-goodman/ | Corey Goodman ]] shared [[ https://gruber.yale.edu/gruber-prizes | 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 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Scheller | Richard Scheller ]] (p110) Stanford 1982 to 2001, then [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genentech | Genentech ]] .p165 - twenty years later, some colleagues said MTL had been nakedly careerist CITATION NEEDED .p166 - [[ https://sis.stanford.edu/structured-liberal-education-sle | SLE ]] Structured Liberal Education .p167 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arancini | 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 [[ https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/rob-reich | Rob Reich ]] .p169 - idea secrecy paired with admissions of wrongdoing .p169 - [[ https://www.ikessandwich.com/menu/111-menage-a-trois/ | "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, Theo 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloid-beta_precursor_protein | APP ]] binding to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_receptor_6 | DR6 ]] (tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 21, TNRFS21) .p174 - [[ https://www.nature.com/articles/nature07767 | 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 - +[[ https://www.uab.edu/medicine/radonc/?id=193%3Aanatoly-nikolaev | 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 [[ https://www.interacademies.org/person/david-vaux | 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 [[ https://www.regeneron.com/ | Regeneron ]] board, highest paid in the S&P 500, earned $80M .p181 - MTL cofounded [[ https://www.denalitherapeutics.com/ | Denali Theraputics ]] in 2017, largest biotech IPO of the year .p181 - MTL current net worth $500M .p182 - Theo shares writup with Washington Post science editor +[[ https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/tracy-jan/ | Tracy Jan ]] and +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Kramon | 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 +[[ https://comm.stanford.edu/people/rb-brenner | R. B. Brenner ]] .p185 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_DJing | DJing ]] Disc jockey-ing (as a verb) .p185 - ''Daily'' staffer +Marie .p185 - Alondra Dorm mate +Sylvia .p185 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muwekma_Ohlone_Tribe | 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 +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bridge_%28lawyer%29 | Andrew Bridges ]] attorney at [[ https://www.fenwick.com/people/andrew-p-bridges | Fenwick & West ]] .p189 - +[[ https://www.dwt.com/people/k/kumar-ambika | Ambika Kumar ]] and +[[ https://www.dwt.com/people/s/stahl-eric-m | Eric Stahl ]] at [[ https://www.dwt.com/ | Davis Wright Tremaine ]] .p190 - HFO / hold-for-order articles, [[ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prewrite | prewrites ]] .p190 - +[[ https://theorg.com/org/the-dish-daily/org-chart/nikolas-l | Niko ]] photographer .p191 - MTL's [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_ID.4 | Volkswagen electric ID.4 ]] .p192 - Stanford [[ https://www.campus-maps.com/stanford-university/building-10/ | Building 10 ]] president's office .p194 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persis_Drell | Persis Drell ]] provost .p196 - letter from attorney representing MTL ------ .'''p197 - ch. 10 - The Good Paper''' ----- .p197 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Keating | Charles Keating Jr. ]] swimmer / financier / felon / S&L crisis / $4.3B civil judgement .p198 - Lawyer +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Neal_(lawyer) | Steve Neal ]] reversed Keating convictions .p199 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooley_LLP | Cooley law firm ]] represented [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos | Theranos ]] +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes | Elizabeth Holmes ]], now MTL .p199 - Threatening letter to Theo .p201 - 2009 N-APP paper described as incorrect in 2014 by MTL .p203 - +[[https://schraglab.com/about-lab/dr-matthew-schrag-phd/ | Matthew Schrag ]] Vanderbilt professor uncovered rampant fraud about a different Alzheimer's study .p204 - Schrag discovered that his mentor +[[ https://www.science.org/content/article/i-m-nauseated-alzheimer-s-whistleblower-finds-possible-misconduct-his-mentor-their | Othman Ghrigbi ]] had manipulated data .p204 - Schrag offers to mentor Theo .p204 - the panel had been 100% confident that [the issues] weren't innocent .p205 - Theo missing classes, Stanford resident director +[[ https://resed.stanford.edu/people/kenneth-graham | 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 - +[[ https://www.denalitherapeutics.com/team/ryan-watts/ | Ryan Watts ]] MTL's [[ https://www.denalitheraputics.com/en/index.jsp | "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 - +[[ 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 . asked for documents to help with due diligence .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 .p214 - Sam to printers: "let's spring for the good paper" ------ .'''p215 - ch. 11 - TreeHacks''' ----- .p216 - [[ https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/bill-grueskin | 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 .p221 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bobby_Fuller_Four | Bobby Fuller Four ]] 1965 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_Her_Dance | Let Her Dance ]] .p221 to p224 [[ https://treehacks.com/ | Stanford treehacks ]] .p225 - four hours of sleep in 64 hours, collapse and temporary amnesia .p227 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy | Andrej Karpathy ]] .p227 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Partovi | Ali Partovi ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code.org | code.org ]] ------ .'''p229 - ch. 12 - Solve for People''' ----- .p230 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Freese | Jeremy Freese ]] data science?? professor? WP says sociologist .p231 - professors would hang up after their group calls and call Theo with details .p232 - corroborating email to Stanford board chair +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Yang | Jerry Yang ]] .p234 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A4germeister | Jägermeister ]] German spiced digestif liqueur .p235 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte | Ed Tufte ]] .p235 - + Philip, Chicago attorney .p236 - ''Science'' Holden Thorp called regularly .p236 - +[[ https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/kenneth-schultz | Kenneth Shultz ]], chair of the Stanford faculty senate .p237 - "Secret society founded by a famous billionaire"; Peter Thiel's [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialog_(organization) | Dialog?? ]] [[ https://dialog.org/ ]] .p240 - Letters with questions to MTL only mis-answered by lawyer Neal .p241 - incorrect email from radiology professor +[[ https://profiles.stanford.edu/garry-gold | Garry Gold ]] .p242 - Email from MTL friend Richard Scheller, from anger "I do not recall" ------ .'''p243 - ch. 13 - Free to Speak''' ----- .p243 - spring, [[ https://www.amazon.com/floaties/s?k=floaties | floaties in fountains ]] .p244 - faculty senate meeting including +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice | Condoleezza Rice ]] to remove +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch | Rupert Murdoch ]] and +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekah_Mercer | Rebekah Mercer ]] from board of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Institution | Hoover Institution ]] .p245 - Academic Senate Chair +[[ https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/kenneth-schultz | Ken Schultz ]] .p245 - professor +[[ https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/joseph-lipsick | Joe Lipsick ]] "I will ask the student newspaper to publish the entire conversation" .p245 - Hoover Fellow +[[ | Henry Kissinger ]] "Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small" .p247 - During COVID, MTL voted to censure Trump advisor and Hoover Fellow +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Atlas | Scott Atlas ]] .p248 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cheriton | David Cheriton ]] computer science prof with $20B stake in many student companies .p249 - +[[ https://lucasaduplan.com/ | Lucas Duplan ]] .p249 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Sahami | Mehran Sahami ]] .p249 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Breyer | Jim Breyer ]] .p249 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson | Richard Branson ]] .p249 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Auletta | Ken Auletta ]] .p250 - MTL "look of pure hatred", told that MTL could be intimidating .p251 - Genentech pursuing a $46B acquisition deal by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche | Roche ]] .p251 - in 2009, Genentech pursuing 12 year legal monopoly for ? .p251 - Genentech 2009 emergency FDA authorization of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevacizumab | Avstatin ]] to treat metastatic breast cancer, subsequent research showed it ineffective .p251 - NYT found nearly identical statements from 42 congressmen lobbying the FDA for Genentech .p252 - ineffective for "countless breast cancer patients", delayed authorization revocation until 2011 .p253 - Richard Scheller (p110) .p253 - gRED: Genentech Research and Early Development division, director also urged 2009 paper retraction .p254 - Genentech statement: "Prior to publication of the paper, employees other than the author performed binding experiments that showed inconsistent results", contrary to subseqent statements by MTL .p255 - Nature formal expression of concern ------ .'''p257 - ch. 14 - No Room for Error''' ----- .p257 - Theo's other grandfather Eleftherios Peter Baker (Pappouzi) +[[ https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/eleftherios-baker-obituary?id=51595336 | dies ]] 2023 .p258 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Polk_Awards | Polk Awards ]] Ceremony ... 17? categories .p258 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynsey_Addario | Lynsey Addario ]] photojournalist also Polk Award recipient .p259 - +[[ https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/ben-pauker/ | Ben Pauker ]] colleague of Theo Baker's mother .p260 - Theo finds [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycodone| oxycodone ]] left by his grandfather, "popped a few pills", wave of crashing warmth, takes bottle with him to school (KL: against the law and common sense) .p261 - Theo frets, insecure, takes more oxycodone, overdose .p261 - Theo slurs, heart slows down, uses "gift" [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naloxone | Narcan ]] in dorm room, alone .p262 - mute and paralyzed .p263 - threw up for hours, shaking, finally slept .p263 - dumpstered the pills in the morning (toilet not good enough?), later told a doctor what happened ------ .'''p265 - ch. 15 - Money Is a Rush''' ----- .p265 - Stanford provost [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persis_Drell | Persis Drell ]] resigns, MTL not allowed by board to choose successor .p266 - Condi Rice former Stanford provost, as was +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Terman | Frederick Terman ]] .p269 - [[ https://www.hummingbird.vc/ | Hummingbird VC ]] .p270 - +"Lyle who served as class president for his year" Citation Needed .p271 - Stanford Highly Incompetent Team S.H.I.T. building race car, "A balloon would be above our budget" .p271 - [[ https://24hoursoflemons.com/ | 24 Hours of LeMons ]] .p271 - +Nathan, +Helen, +Mick .p272 - +Cole, crazy claims, all true. [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system | 1800 Elo chess rating]] .p273 - +Anya "A yacht party is, like, a central Stanford experience" .p274 - !TreeHacks swag .p274 - !TreeHacks teammate +John (not Darnton?) .p275 - !Chris CS homework signing "Declaration: I did not use ChatGPT", with ChatGPT open in a split window ------ .'''p279 - ch. 16 - ''Finis Origine Pendet''''' ----- .p279 - '''world famous researcher, off record:''' ... fraud by first author .p280 - Russian dissident +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny | Alexei Navalny's ]] exiled investigators tracking oligarchs evading sanctions. .p281 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Flier | Jeffrey Flier ]] lack of witness confidentiality "extremely unusual" .p283 - 95 page report on secure website, only screenshots, no download .p285 - several papers based on manipulated data, but MTL seemingly absolved by cover letter .p285 - MTL said he had not been able to provide adequate explanation for failure to correct the scientific record .p286 - panel recommended all five papers be retracted or substantially corrected, MTL retracted 3 and corrected 2 .p286 - panel concluded three papers falsified .p288 - Theo finishes writing, gets two messages from national publications about MTL resigning .p289 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Saller | Richard Saller ]] becomes interim president .p290 - actual board decision a month prior to announcement .p291 - there was no pro-MTL camp at the endGene Sykes .p291 - the panel had not bought any of MTL's excuses .p293 - MTL demanded 6 month continued use of presidential mansion; received 7-figure payout .p294 - Stanford is supposed to look perfect ------ .'''p295 - ''Coda''''' ----- .p295 sophomore year, Theo interviews interim president Saller. .p296 also replaced provost, dean of research, head of undergraduate education, and head of student affairs .p296 co-chair +[[ tanforddaily.com/2014/02/04/gene-sykes-shares-thoughts-on-joining-board-of-trustees/ | Gene Sykes ]] .p297 end of "fake-it-till-you-make-it" and War on Fun .p298 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fei-Fei_Li | Fei-Fei Li ]] and +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_D._Manning | Christopher Manning ]] left for private sector .p300 - across scientific publishing, four studies are retracted for every ten thousand published .p300 - Holden Thorp at ''Science'' announced that journals would use forensic tools to detect manipulation .p301 - New MTL company [[ https://www.xaira.com/ | Xiara ]] .p302 - Theo offered funding if he wanted to start a company. ------ .'''p303 - ''Acknowledgements''''' ----- . hundreds more names ------ .p309 - NOTES -----