What is Stanford?

Erik Allebest on Chess.com inverting the standard startup playbook.

“At the time when I was, you know, getting into doing this 20 years ago, the playbook was like, you know, hire a technical founder from Stanford, raise a bunch of money, get an office, go after a big market, spend a bunch of money on customer acquisition. And we literally just did like all the opposite of that. like I hired my friend from San Jose State. We worked remotely. We didn't raise any money. We didn't pay any money for customer acquisition. We picked a tiny market.”

A Stanford study found 41% of Y Combinator AI startups are automating tasks people would prefer to keep human.

“There was a fascinating study that came out of Stanford a while back that found 41% of Y Combinator AI startups are automating things that people would prefer to keep human.”

Stanford AI Economic Indicators dashboard (Canaries) tracks labor market shifts attributable to AI in real time, with trends continuing to grow and not explained by interest rates or other macro factors.

“You can go to the canaries you can go to the dashboard AI economic indicators at Stanford and what you'll see is that these trends have just been continuing to grow over time. It's not something that's just due to co or something else.”

Stanford researcher Helen Blau's lab identified an inhibitor of the molecule that suppresses cartilage regeneration, with evidence of knee cartilage regrowth in humans.

“Actually, there's a study out of Helen Blau's lab at Stanford on mice and humans where they found an inhibitor of the molecule that inhibits cartilage regeneration.”

It is now easier for a Stanford student to get into Y Combinator than to secure a job, per published reporting.

“The publication said it's easier to for a Stanford student to get into YC than it is for them to get a job now.”