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Cornell University has a slightly more unusual founder story compared to the other Ivies. The original campus is in Ithaca, six hours upstate from New York while Cornell Tech opened in 2017 on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan, built explicitly to produce startups.

There’s a reason why Harvard continues to pop up whenever you start to dig into the backstories of big, successful companies. It’s not just Facebook, although Mark Zuckerberg is probably the first name that comes to mind when you think of Harvard founders.

31 MIN(s)•TECHNOLOGY K. M. Iftesham Islam K. M. Iftesham Islam Sabik Bin Sultan and Shafi Bin Sultan, the two brothers who co-founded the AI-based hiring startup AgenticHire. Photo: Courtesy

Stanford University has produced more successful founders than almost any other university in the world. Some companies have shaped entire industries while newer startups are still finding their feet but one thing is for sure – there’s no shortage of innovation.