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Re:The YC Interview and a Visit to 10 Downing Street by untog on Thursday May 01, 2014 @02:16PM (#7681652)
told me with a smile on his face that “we Americans love the whole Cambridge thing over here.”, which is funny given that most of Britain seem to hate it.

Because it's foreign. I think UK attitudes to Cambridge and US attitudes to Ivy League universities are roughly the same.

Re:The YC Interview and a Visit to 10 Downing Street by rdl on Thursday May 01, 2014 @03:27PM (#7682162)
Also, in the case of YC specifically, there have been some exceptionally good founders (and partners) from (more Oxford than) Cambridge, I think.