Inside Stanford's Secret Tech Elite (And the Freshman Who Exposed It)
In this episode, we talk with Theo Baker, a soon-to-be Stanford graduate and author of How to Rule the World, about what he found when he traded his coding ambitions for student journalism. Within his first semester, Theo broke the story that led to Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s resignation, a months-long investigation into manipulated research images that put him in the crosshairs of one of the world’s largest law firms. But that was just the beginning.
Baker walks us through what he calls the “Stanford inside Stanford”: a parallel world of yacht parties, slush funds, secret…
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