Ready to be shaken to your very core? A new study reveals that unicorn founders are overwhelmingly men and that Stanford University produces more of them than any other institute of higher education.
Shocked! We’re shocked!
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The study of startups with valuations over $1 billion was conducted by Sage, a U.K.-based cloud accounting service, and Verve Search, a digital marketing firm. The data was pulled from a wide range of sources, including TechCrunch, Crunchbase, CB Insights, and VB Profiles, among others.
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When it comes to universities, Stanford had the most graduates who became founders of unicorns. If you need a Plan B, try Harvard as your unicorn safety school:
- Stanford University: 51
- Harvard University: 37
- University of California: 18
- Indian Institute of Technology: 12
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 9
- University of Pennsylvania: 9
- University of Oxford: 8
- Tel Aviv University: 7
- Cornell University: 6
- University of Southern California: 6
- University of Waterloo: 6
- INSEAD: 5
- WHU: 5
- University of Michigan: 5
- Brigham Young University: 5
When it comes to gender, well….
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