Highlights from my 15-year Stanford reunion

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Hi Candidate,

One of my favorite parts of being a student at Stanford is something you might not expect:

Almost all the doors were unlocked

You could walk in any time, audit almost any class, and have essentially unlimited resources: conference rooms to host groups, meeting spaces, world-class tutors, 24/7 gyms, anything you wanted.

What a beautiful symbol of abundance.

And what a different message than most of the world sends.

At Stanford, it's hard to get in. But once you get in, they treat you like you're there to do good.

At many places, it's easy to walk in … but they have endless rules to prevent the lowest common denominator from doing something wrong.

This had a profound effect on me. Going to Stanford taught me that you can treat people like they're going to do GOOD by default. This profoundly shaped the way I think about my life, my business, and the people I want to be around.

I wrote up some of my lessons from my 15-year Stanford reunion here.