Sam Altman is quoted as saying that leaving Stanford was not a risk

Sam Altman says dropping out of Stanford wasn’t risky For OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, dropping out of college to launch his first startup, Loopt, wasn’t as big a risk as it might seem. In fact, in Altman’s telling, the decision to leave Stanford in 2005 was not particularly calculated, but rather somewhat unexpected. “This was […]
Americans support dropping degree requirements, but employers and hiring managers continue to enforce the ‘paper ceiling’

Americans can get behind dropping degree requirements—but employers and hiring managers keep propping up the ‘paper ceiling’ Academic disqualification, discrimination, and exclusion are unchecked behaviors that are holding back more than 70 million U.S. workers who are skilled through alternative routes (STARs). This “paper ceiling” is an invisible barrier that’s filtering out qualified workers through […]