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In tech? Pedigree gets your foot in the door. If you can bypass that bottleneck, it doesn’t matter after you have been a few years out of college.


That's true, but compounding returns are real in careers as well. That's my concern, at least.

I think there's a pretty significant outcomes difference in terms of social class in the top of the class at my school and the top of the class at say UWashington or UWaterloo


I don’t think they compound too much in our industry. It might take you a few years longer to get into a fang or decacorn but after that you’re on an even playing field.




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