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Re:Why a Successful Valley Entrepreneur Started a Tech Incub... by santaclaus on Sunday July 02, 2017 @05:55PM (#14684556)
Zuckerberg and Gates either had good enough high school GPAs and SATs to get into Harvard or got in on legacy (George W. Bush Yale style).
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Re:Why a Successful Valley Entrepreneur Started a Tech Incub... by uiri on Sunday July 02, 2017 @06:52PM (#14684737)
They didn't get in on legacy. Their fathers went to local public universities instead respectively.
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Re:Why a Successful Valley Entrepreneur Started a Tech Incub... by sjg007 on Sunday July 02, 2017 @06:55PM (#14684742)
Both had rich parents though. I think that makes it slightly easier to get into Harvard. They could live in good neighborhoods, attend the best public or private schools and also try entrepreneurial activities with a safety net. Now maybe that safety is overrated in general but it is still there nonetheless.
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Re:Why a Successful Valley Entrepreneur Started a Tech Incub... by dna_polymerase on Sunday July 02, 2017 @07:03PM (#14684770)
Gates also left a mark or two at Harvard for actual academic stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_sorting
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