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The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

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How to Balance Academic and Professional Pedigree With Entrepreneurship

"I don't know why Stephen Fry's on my mind today but Stephen Fry said this thing that the good thing about going to Oxford or Cambridge is that you don't have to deal with not having to have gone there," he says. "Now you have to create your own combination depending on where you want to get in and which is very very familiar to startup founders when you create your investor portfolio basically our cap table" He adds: "A lot of the rules are really old and independent ... I'm in rooms with people who never ever have to think about feeling that they belong to the room because of [their] pedigree"

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