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Stanford Was Once a Cradle of Innovation. What It’s Turned Into Is Something Else Entirely.

  • Laura Miller--Slate Magazine
  • published date: 2026-05-27 19:41:53 UTC

Theo Baker’s How to Rule the World offers a unique perspective on the institution’s elites.

Stanford University was once the cradle of companies like Hewlett-Packard and Google, scrappy enterprises started in garages that went on, as Silicon Valley likes to put it, to change the world. It w… [+8920 chars]