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The wiki does a bad job of clarifying what the relationship is (wth does "first cousin once removed" even mean?). Here's a family tree: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jensen-huang-and-lisa-su-f... Still, I always loved how immigrants to the US always ended up in high level positions, starting or leading top US companies, something that never/rarely happens here in Europe where maintaining the status quo and the "n…
The wiki does a bad job of clarifying what the relationship is (wth does "first cousin once removed" even mean?). Here's a family tree: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jensen-huang-and-lisa-su-f... Still, I always loved how immigrants to the US always ended up in high level positions, starting or leading top US companies, something that never/rarely happens here in Europe where maintaining the status quo and the "n…
I read an interesting point recently: Austria's 100 wealthiest families have two thirds of the country's wealth, and zero have earned their money from technology; they've all inherited it.
How different would the same list be for Germany? One, perhaps two families earned their fortunes from tech?
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Sure but why stop a practice that is working so well already? It's just 10 slots out of 100s.
It's over 200 out of about 2000 at Harvard, plus another 200 for athletes... Though of course the bigger issue is that Harvard only has 2000 places for undergrad despite a $50bn endowment, in order to create some artificial scarcity.
Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud, is identical twins with George Kurian, CEO of NetApp.
Have we considered just having one guy run 10 different companies that will sometimes cross each other's path? Saves on the number of kids you need that are related.
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> In France, most immigrants kids don't even know the possible paths to get into a top school. What do you mean? As an immigrant to France when I was in 3rd grade [0], I knew in a couple of months that I had to go to a good high-school, to get into a good prep school, to get into a good grande école. Everybody knows this. And everybody knows how to get there: be good at math, and have good grades in general. [0] In F…
I know people from the suburbs who didn't even know what a prep school was until they were adults.
She is his first cousin once removed, if you want to get technical about it. She’s his cousins kid.
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Rich Iranians fleeing the revolution with their money and becoming rich Britons or Americans is not exactly a fairytale. Just because someone is an immigrant it doesn't mean they earned everything by their bootstraps.
According to the source article in Wikipedia: "“We had very limited money,” Lili Khosrowshahi recalled of the family’s early days in the U.S. “I’d never worked before. I started working full-time, and every penny we earned was put in Dara [and two other son’s] education… and it was expensive. I remember at the time coffee was $0.15 [a cup], and I wouldn’t buy a cup of coffee for myself.”" https://observer.com/2018/10…
I see it was her first ever media appearance. A lot of expensive PR went into those quotes you're repeating.
Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud, is identical twins with George Kurian, CEO of NetApp.
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Yeah that’s just not true. You can just get good scores and grades, with the caveat here that “good” means atleast 99.5th percentile. Under those conditions I’d estimate your odds of getting into at least one Ivy (or equivalently good school) at around 50%, which might seem low but remember 99.6% of college students do not attend an ivy.
I know an unusually high number of people who went to Ivy Leagues, and none of them had just good grades, in fact some of their grades weren't great at all. They had some special factor. On the other side, the people I knew with absolutely perfect grades and 2400 SAT (this was before the 1600 scale) and no other angles didn't get into a single Ivy League, but still got into very good schools.
If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
An alternative is to find a different article that's more focused on the point you think is important. For example the link that FirmwareBurner found (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jensen-huang-and-lisa-su-f..., via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36956184) would have been a better submission in this case.