I would love your input on research my wife is doing on "Raising Founders" 1. Where did you grow up? Suburbs or City? 2. Where did you go to school? Public, private or home school? 3. Favorite entrepreneur / change-maker?
1. City-ish (outskirts of Athens, big metro similar to LA/Chicago) 2. Public all the way K12 thru grad school 3. Tie: Jobs/Gates
Suburbs Public Musk and Bezos, but this has shifted a bit over time
1. All over US. Primarily rural. 2. Public. 3. Arthur Guinness.
1. rural, small-town, free lunch, food stamps 2. public, low-income, #1 on FEMA's highest risk areas 3. thomas edison / john rockefeller / henry ford
1 - Outside Atlanta so suburbs/rural blend 2 - public 3 - Bezos/Boyd 🫡
You might not get anyone that will say private school in your responses. Probably need an anon survey to avoid an “I don’t want to come across as a rich kid” bias Also I think homeschooling is like an acceptable public upper class dog whistle because I’ve seen VCs talk about it openly but maybe just barely?
1. Grown up in a small city of world’s second largest country by population. 2. Went to private school 🏫 which is still running 20-30 years behind time. Funny Incident: I first touched computer in school at age of 16.Didnot know how to switch on/off that Computer. 3. None Heard abt Crypto before Stocks in 201
Good idea @cameron Anon survey https://forms.gle/4nC7gfjtNaTnRWXe8
I grew up in 5 Countries but the breakdowns are clear 1. US (8 yr ) — Suburbs / Overseas (10 yr) — City 2. US (8 yr ) — Public / Overseas (10 yr) — Military or International 3. Andrew Carnegie
1. City and small town 2. Montessori until 5th grade, then public 3. Hard to pick, but the stories of Oppenheimer and Ada Lovelace were two I learned early and were very meaningful to me at the time.
Rural Mississippi Private School; Public College One underated favorite is Darmesh Shah.
1. suburbs 2. public school 3. dont have one? growing up i wanted to be a movie director
1. Tucson, AZ (suburbs I guess since Tucson is all one suburb of a small desert town). 2. Public. 3. Jason Fried.
1.) City 2.) Private, but like $250/year private in India 3.) Elon is most impressive in terms of breadth
1. Suburbs 2. Private then public; troublesome high schooler (public uni, private grad if it’s relevant) 3. Johannes Gutenberg
Suburbs. Public schools, and a gifted/talented pullout program which was amazing 1 day/wk for 1-8 which probably mattered more than anything else. Dropped out of HS. Elon Musk.
1. small town on Oregon Coast (closest proper city Portland was 3 hours away) 2. public 3. I dunno but William S. Knudsen is up there
1. Sheep farm. I know a ton of entrepreneurs who grew up on a farm so you might want to add Rural (or whatever you call it in USA) as an option 2. Public then Private final two yrs 3. Assuming this wasn’t limited to tech: Entrepreneur- Yvon Chouinard Change maker —- many many but let’s go with Nelson Mandela
1: Burbs 2: Homeschool k-9, public 10-12 3: Tobi Lütke or Stewart Butterfield
1. Moved a lot, but teenage Paris suburbs college paris intra 2. Public 3 Xavier Niel
1. Moved a lot cuz my dad was in army. Sometimes a village in the middle of nowheer, sometimes suburbs. Recently cities. 2. Private, but Indian private ~$1000/yr 3. Elon
1. Small city 2. Public and then private university 3. Leonardo Da Vinci
1. NYC, in a suburby neighborhood 2. public from elementary to HS 3. not sure yet
1. Charlotte NC suburbs 2. Private 3. Steve Jobs / Elon
1 suburb 2 private k-8, public 9th grade dropout 3 elon
1. Suburbs 2. Public from K-12, but parents chose to move to neighbourhoods with the best public schools in Canada 3. Sheryl Sandberg/Jessica Livingston
1. grew up in westwood, a suburban ish part of LA 2. went to public elementary school, then private middle/high/university 2. steve jobs
1. technically L.A. (but suburb) 2. public school (until college) 3. not sure, Yvon Chouinard would prob be up there
FWIW My observation from being at a school with a lot of wealthy students is they are less likely to do anything risky as they look to do something that preserves / achieves what their parents have. Despite all the opportunity I am yet to see a grad from my school (& keep in mind NZ is tiny) doing anything interesting.
- suburb - public then private on scholarship - I aspire to be on @pmarca level of funposting