Stanford No. One Entrepreneurial University
Stanford University has been ranked no. one on Forbes’s 2014 most entrepreneurial universities list for the second time. Forbes ranked the nation’s most entrepreneurial research universities based on their entrepreneurial ratios, the number of alumni and students who have identified themselves founders and business owners on LinkedIn against the school’s combined graduate and undergraduate student body.
Some of the most famous graduates from Stanford include, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), Jeffrey Bewkes (Time Warner), Reed Hastings (Netflix), William Hewlett and David Packard (Hewlett-Packard), Konstantin Guericke and Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Phil Knight (Nike), Marissa Mayer (Yahoo), Scott McNealy, Charles R. Schwab, (Charles Schwab Corp.), Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger (Instagram), Peter Thiel (PayPal) and Jerry Yang and David Filo (Yahoo).
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YouTube CEO Chosen to Speak at Anderson Graduation
UCLA Anderson School of Management announced that Susan Wojcicki (MBA ’98), chief executive officer of YouTube and former head of advertising and commerce at Google will deliver the commencement address to this year’s graduates. The ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. on June 13, 2014.
Wojcicki is considered to be one of the world’s most well known technology executives and an early champion of online video. She now supervises YouTube’s content and business operations, engineering and product development.
Wojcicki has been named one of Fortune’s “50 Most Powerful Women in Business,” one of Forbes’ “100 Most Powerful Women” and one of Vanity Fair’s “50 leading innovators [who] shake the foundations of their industries.” Continue reading…
