| International Standard Book Number |
9780593832837
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593832833
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| Personal Name |
Baker, Theo (Journalist), author.
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| Title Statement |
How to rule the world : an education in power at Stanford University / Theo Baker.
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| Imprint |
New York : Penguin Press, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xiii, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Your Stanford pocket dictionary -- Prologue: fear the tree -- Drafted to the war on fun -- The impostor -- Coupa circuit -- Binary bomb -- A fucking menace -- Rule -- Duck syndrome -- Harriet the spy -- [[NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION]] -- The good paper -- TreeHacks -- Solve for people -- Free to speak -- No room for error -- Money is a rush -- Finis origine pendet -- Coda.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Winner of the George Polk Award for his investigation that brought down Stanford's president, Theo Baker offers a revelatory and gripping account of Silicon Valley hubris. Slush funds. Shell companies. Yacht parties. This is life for Silicon Valley's favored teenagers. Seventeen-year-old Theo Baker showed up for freshman year at Stanford University as a tech-obsessed coder. It seemed like paradise. There were Rodin sculptures next to nuclear laboratories and inventors lounging with Olympians. But Baker soon discovered a culture that embraced corner cutting, that vested infinite excess and access in the hands of kids, with few safeguards to catch bad behavior. Stanford, he realized, was less a school than a business. Its annual budget was nearly twice that of Harvard or Yale and higher than those of 116 countries. The product? Students. Especially those special few identified as the next trillion-dollar-startup founders. For them, there were secret societies, "pre-idea" funding offers, and social calls from billionaires, all with the expectation that these geniuses would soon join the ruling elite. At the helm of this business was Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a superstar neuroscientist and wealthy biotech executive. But when Baker joined the student newspaper and started poking around the Stanford president's record, he discovered never-reported allegations of research misconduct in studies published across two decades bearing Tessier-Lavigne's name. Only one month into college and thousands of miles from home, Baker began receiving anonymous letters, going on stakeouts, and tracking down confidential sources. High-powered lawyers and public relations teams were hired to attack his reporting. Stanford opened an investigation into its own leader. And by the end of the year, Tessier-Lavigne was out as president. This is the incredible journey of a reluctant teenage reporter who uncovered a story that shook the scientific world and became front-page news across the country. It is also an unprecedented inside view of the students learning to rule the world -- and what they're learning from those who already do. How to Rule the World is a shocking, hilarious, and moving debut, showcasing Silicon Valley's training ground as never before."-- Book jacket flaps.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Tessier-Lavigne, Marc
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Baker, Theo (Journalist)
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| Subject |
Stanford University Administration Corrupt practices.
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| Subject |
Stanford University Finance.
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| Subject |
Stanford University Students Attitudes.
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| Subject |
Stanford daily.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Internet industry California Palo Alto.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Student aspirations California Stanford.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Elite (Social sciences) Education (Higher) California Stanford.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Business and education California Stanford.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Research and development partnership California Stanford.
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