Does Education Matter in the Age of AI? MIT President Sally Kornbluth
Sequoia Capital·2026-04-16 12:01

The way you maintain meritocracy and excellence is to make sure that each person you bring in, and for us this means all of our faculty, all of our staff, all of our students, we have to consistently focus on excellence. Um, there was a colleague of mine at Duke who had a sign in his office that said, "If you have a take a lick of the uh lollipop of mediocrity, you will suck forever." >> Uh, that's pretty good. >> And I I always liked that.Hey everybody, we have Sally Cornbluth on the pod today. She's presi ...

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