A number of students have taken advantage of Harvard’s generous leave of absence policy to build a startup . By allowing students to take an indefinite pause from their studies and return at will, Harvard has made possible an apparent paradox: go all in without catastrophic stakes. Go big, or go back to the best school in the world. While this policy isn’t new to Harvard, the nature of the “tech bro” who takes advantage of it is changing. He’s no longer necessarily hyper-technical; he’s a salesman above all. He is likely bullish on artificial intelligence. He is still probably a he — but less predictably white and wealthy. He has a visionary mindset, single-minded commitment, and armored self-confidence. He calls himself a Harvard dropout, and he wears it as a badge of honor. For these students, “dropping out” is the real fast track to the American Dream, not graduating. What comes next for the Harvard dropout — and what happens to the University they leave behind? submitted by /u/fmcrimson
Originally posted by u/fmcrimson on r/ArtificialInteligence