Long one of America’s elite universities, Stanford has grown into the leading alma mater, by far, for entrepreneurs receiving early-stage funding from top venture capital firms. ![]() ![]() He funded companies run by three of his roommates. They had a big advantage: Fellow roommate Chris Barber, 21, was a budding venture capitalist, already learning about the business of injecting funds into promising new firms. The others had gone to work on their startups. A little over a year later, in the autumn of 2014, just two were left at Stanford. REUTERS/Beck DiefenbachĪt the end of their first year at Stanford University, a half dozen students snagged an apartment-style dormitory on the third floor of Griffin House, overlooking the campus golf course. ![]() Chris Barber, a student at Stanford University, uses a laptop computer as he conducts business from his dorm room in Stanford, California, June 11, 2014.
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