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I thought I would post this just for fun as Google has been in the news lately. This list is from Bloomberg . Listed below are the colleges that the top nine managers attended:

U of Cal- Masters,Princeton, BS
Santa Clara ,MBA, Univ. of South Florida B.S.
Stanford, MS,Univ of Maryland, BS
Univ of Michigan, MS,Stanford, BS
Stanford, MBA,San Jose State U, BS
U of Chicago, MBA, Claremont McKenna,BS
Stanford, Ph.D,Oxford,Masters,Carleton U,BS
Stanford,J.D., Santa Clara Univ,BS
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One manager did not file his school.

By Dstark (Dstark) on Monday, August 23, 2004 - 12:56 pm: Edit

Google must have worked because of the guy who went to Princeton.

By Haithman (Haithman) on Monday, August 23, 2004 - 01:08 pm: Edit

Okay? All of them went to awesome schools...

By Songman (Songman) on Monday, August 23, 2004 - 02:51 pm: Edit

Ha! DSTARK= Stanford seems to be the common denominator not Princeton!

By Dstark (Dstark) on Monday, August 23, 2004 - 02:54 pm: Edit

Yeah, I am just goofing around.
I thought one guy went to Mich undergrad, not grad.
Stanford did really well with google financially too.

By Dadx (Dadx) on Monday, August 23, 2004 - 03:53 pm: Edit

The two original founders were UMCP and UM undergraduates prior to attending Stanford. It very well might have "worked" because of the Princeton guy, but more because of his age and experience than his eduational pedigree...He's 49, is the CEO, and has been at work for a few years. Probably insisted upon by a venture investor at some point in the past.

Both founders were able to sell about $40MM of stock in the offering.....something that would normally not have been permitted by the underwriters years ago. Now they can afford to have goal line or courtside seats for their football games.

Those interested in financial things might look at the prospectus.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312504143377/d424b4.htm#toc59330_1

By Thinkingoutloud (Thinkingoutloud) on Monday, August 23, 2004 - 08:44 pm: Edit

Google's CEO got a B.S. in engineering from Princeton, a Masters in Management and a PHD in computer science from Berkley. He rose to Chief Technology Officer at Sunmicrosystems and was the one who saved JAVA from being dumped and made it the popular programming language it is today. As Novell was about to go under, he took over as CEO and reinvented the company. Microsoft used its illegal monopoly to catch up and displace Novell's networking products. He left Novell to lead an interesting little company with about 150 employees. In three years, he led the company to become the dominant and a highly profitable search engine.

By Webhappy2 (Webhappy2) on Monday, August 23, 2004 - 10:28 pm: Edit

"and was the one who saved JAVA from being dumped and made it the popular programming language it is today"

This part is incorrect.

By Thinkingoutloud (Thinkingoutloud) on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 12:03 am: Edit

Ever heard of that famous programming language called "Oak"? Didn't think so. JAVA was originally called Oak and it was going nowhere until Schmidt and Bill Joy decided to move JAVA to the internet. This was all going on while Bill Gates was talking about the wonders of the CDROM. Schmidt put the deals together and converted JAVA to a true business model with profit potential.

By Alexandre (Alexandre) on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 02:15 am: Edit

Dstark, you are quite correct. Larry Page (co-founder of Google) got his BS in Computer Engineering from Michigan. Sergey Brin (the other co-founder), got his BS in Computer Science from Maryland.