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  • Sam Altman reveals why he's jealous of 20-year-old dropouts: 'Opportunity in this space is...'

    Sam Altman, who dropped out of Stanford in 2005 after two years of studying computer science, co-founded location-sharing app Loopt before leading OpenAI.

  • Unsure about career path or what to do in life? This CEO's 'genie question' strategy might help

    Graham Weaver stressed that success is rarely immediate and that unrealistic expectations for quick results often lead to failure. 'The missing ingredient in most of the people that fail is time,' he said.

  • Man's motivational post after getting rejected from Stanford has the internet cheering for him

    Amal Sony, founder of Universal Notes, took to X to share a post that featured a rejection letter he got from Stanford University. His motivational post has gone viral online.

  • ChatGPT creator Sam Altman meets another CEO in India. This one is his friend from Stanford

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is currently in India as part of his world tour. He is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit.

  • Here are the five best universities in the US — check fees, acceptance rate and other details

    This year, a total of 1,500 colleges across various institutional categories were ranked based on 17 metrics. Princeton University earned the top spot, followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Harvard University, Stanford University and Yale University tied for the third spot.

  • 'Not Just Decade, This Is India's Century,' Says Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal In The US

    Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal while highlighting India's growth story at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in San Francisco, United States, said, "this is not just India's decade, it's India's century." The union minister said that by 2050, India will be a $30 trillion economy and spoke about how the country is making rapid progress in many areas. He added that 40% of the world's digital transactions are happening in India. Watch this video for excerpts from Piyush Goyal's speech.

  • Google CEO Sundar Pichai has a 4-word advice on leadership

    Google CEO Sundar Pichai was also quick to add that following the same advice is very hard to do in an organization.

  • Study Abroad: Top five universities in the US

    While university education cost remains quite high in the US for foreign students, the quality of education at top institutions there works as a ladder for socio-economic success, and professional growth.

  • US teen earns $4 million in scholarship, gets accepted into 27 universities

    Apart from being a homecoming king, 18-year-old Jonathan Walker is involved with the science club and is also on the varsity football team.

  • Stanford research says India is a lazy country

    A new study that amassed data from people across the globe to map out activity levels ranks India at 38 among 46 countries in terms of activity levels

  • Mukesh Ambani: Entrepreneurship is about finding problems to solve

    A vital lesson in entrepreneurship, was given to him by a professor at the University. He had told Ambani, that a leader never asks for the problems that need to be solved. Rather, he finds his own problems and figures out their solutions himself.

  • Fed should raise rates now: Inventor of key policy theory

    In an interview with CNBC-TV18‘s Latha Venkatesh, Standford professor John Taylor spoke about the prospects of the global economy going into the next year, including risks it faces from quantitative easing policies followed by the US, Europe and Japan.

  • Harvard leads way as 32 American Rhodes scholars announced

    The 2014 batch of American scholars announced on Saturday come from 21 US states and plan to complete master's degrees or doctorates in subjects ranging from anthropology to neuroscience.

  • Stanford ranked top US university on Forbes list

    Stanford, a research and teaching university in Northern California's Silicon Valley, ranked No. 1, jumping from third place last year after scoring high marks for retention rates and high graduate starting salaries. It has 19,945 students and annual costs are USD 58,846.

  • Stanford to help develop online learning system

    Stanford University announced Wednesday that it is joining an initiative co-founded by Harvard and MIT to develop a computer system that allows...

  • Americans are selfish says study

    Americans are selfish and get motivated by self-serving acts while Asian-Americans are moved by appeals to interdependence, according to a new study.

  • India has potential to grow faster than China: Stanford

    Nicholas Bloom, economics professor, Stanford University and Jacob A Frenkel, chairman, JP Morgan Chase International, talk about the sticky global situation and the Indian economic scenario.

  • Start-ups, biz talent encouraged, awarded at WYSIWYG meet

    CNBC-TV18's Young Turks takes you to the What You See Is What You Get conference where eminent speakers like Nitin Seth, country head, Fidelity International India, shared their stories and unraveled ideas.

  • How Stanford Made Instagram An Instant Success

    Facebook's $1 billion purchase of the photo app made Kevin Systrom the latest Silicon Valley cult hero. It happened only because he chose school over Zuckerberg's startup.

  • Now learn: Entrepreneurship at Harvard

    Harvard is set to launch a course to create entrepreneurs. Stanford launched one last year. But aren’t entrepreneurs born and not made?

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