{"id":7224,"date":"2012-11-30T10:02:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T09:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=7224"},"modified":"2012-11-30T10:02:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T09:02:26","slug":"10-french-entrepreneurs-who-attended-stanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2012\/11\/10-french-entrepreneurs-who-attended-stanford\/","title":{"rendered":"10 French entrepreneurs who attended Stanford"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Stanford
\nSince arriving in France, I’ve noticed a very strange phenomenon. You see, whenever I introduce myself, it inevitably comes up that I was born in Menlo Park, just up the road from Stanford University, and that’s always been a way for me to gauge someone’s experience in the Silicon Valley – if they recognize “Menlo Park,” they’ve likely been in SV for more than 6 months, if they recognize “Palo Alto” they’ve either been to SV once or are planning to go there soon, and if I have to say i’m from “San Francisco,” then there’s no way they’ve ever been there. As this continued to come up, I also noticed something strange.
\nThere seem to be a lot of French entrepreneurs who have gone to Stanford, either for a masters, or a year abroad, or just a summer program – nonetheless, it’s always Stanford University, MS in Engineering. In addition, I have found that some of my favorite entrepreneurs (those who I suspect will have the most success) have usually done time at Stanford, to a point where, if I get good enough vibes from an entrepreneur, I can guess with a certain accuracy if they’ve studied at Stanford.
\nIn the Startup Genome Report’s recently release, they noted that 9% of French entrepreneurs had spent time in the Silicon Valley – I suspect that a fair amount of those 9% are the Stanford graduates or pseudo-graduates below:<\/p>\n