{"id":70,"date":"2008-06-08T23:46:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T04:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2011-01-30T14:30:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T19:30:33","slug":"mommy-where-do-billionaires-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/2008\/06\/08\/mommy-where-do-billionaires-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"mommy, where do billionaires come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forbes released an article a couple of weeks ago talking about what universities billionaires went to.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2008\/05\/19\/billionaires-harvard-education-biz-billies-cx_af_0519billieu.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Because I like the new charting functionality in Excel 2007, I went ahead and plotted those schools out on a chart.<\/p>\n

\"where<\/p>\n

It makes sense that Harvard, Stanford, and Penn are at the top because they have ridiculously strong business programs. I think that an interesting figure would be the number of billionaires divided by number of living alumni from each school. Even though the percentages would be very small, schools which have tons of alumni, like USC with 16,000 undergrads would be less versus MIT with 4,000 undergrads. They both have nine billionaires, but an MIT grad is four times more likely to be a billionaire.<\/p>\n

Another question I am also interested in knowing is the value added to an individual on their quest to become a billionaire. I guess more specifically, did earning a Harvard degree enable them to become a billionaire, or were they let into Harvard to begin with because they possessed the “right stuff” and would have become a billionaire on their own accord?<\/p>\n

I think it would be very interesting to analyze not just billionaire, but millionaire alma maters as well.<\/p>\n

Since I don’t have that data handy, I’ll just sit here and bank on my Penn degree to one day throw me billions of dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forbes released an article a couple of weeks ago talking about what universities billionaires went to. http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2008\/05\/19\/billionaires-harvard-education-biz-billies-cx_af_0519billieu.html Because I like the new charting functionality in Excel 2007, I went ahead and plotted those schools out on a chart. It makes sense that Harvard, Stanford, and Penn are at the top because they have ridiculously strong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}