MIT
private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, founded 1861
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Videos Mentioning MIT
Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media | Lex Fridman Podcast #166
Lex Fridman
Where Lex Fridman studied in the theory group in CSAIL and Cal Newport got exposed to focus as a tier-one skill.
Why You Should Leave Your FAANG Job
Y Combinator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mentioned as a prestigious university where computer science majors get employed by companies like Facebook, contrasting this path with that of an engineer seeking VC funding.
Why You Should or Should Not Work at a Startup by Justin Kan
Y Combinator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Kyle Vote was a student before joining Justin.tv.
Why Should I Start a Startup? by Michael Seibel
Y Combinator
Mentioned as an example of a prestigious institution where students might be influenced by perceived prestigious job opportunities like those at Facebook and Google.
60 Startup Founders Share How They Met Their Co-Founder
Y Combinator
Mentioned as a university attended by one of the co-founders.
Why This Is The Perfect Time To Start A Startup
Y Combinator
The university attended by Drew Houston and Arash, and where Alex of Scale dropped out from.
Desining from Day One: Artists as Founders: Multiverse (S20) - YC Gaming Tech Talks 2020
Y Combinator
The institution where two of Multiverse's founders, the speaker and Hisham, studied engineering.
The Cult of Conformity in Silicon Valley
Y Combinator
Mentioned in the context of its career fair where students were more interested in venture capital and starting startups than in practical advice.
Design for Startups by Garry Tan (Part 2)
Y Combinator
Mentioned as a school that has produced well-regarded designers, useful for startup hiring.
Work at a Startup Expo 2019
Y Combinator
Luan and Tariq, co-founders of Kalshi, studied computer science and math here, highlighting their academic background relevant to building a trading exchange.
Female Founders Conference - New York
Y Combinator
The institution whose grad student stipends served as the basis for Y Combinator's initial funding amount for founders.
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI
Y Combinator
The alma mater of Spencer Skates and his co-founders, where they studied algorithms engineering.
🔬There Is No AlphaFold for Materials — AI for Materials Discovery with Heather Kulik
Latent Space
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Heather Kulik is a professor of chemical engineering.
AI Whistleblower: We Are Being Gaslit By The AI Companies! They’re Hiding The Truth About AI!
The Diary Of A CEO
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Karen Hao studied mechanical engineering and later worked at MIT Technology Review.
AI, Data Centers, and the Infrastructure Needed to Power Them | a16z
a16z Deep Dives
Mentioned as a leading university that performed well in the Hyperloop student competitions, highlighting its strong engineering programs.
How The Internet’s Favourite AI Employee Went Rogue
ColdFusion
One of the institutions where world-class educators crafting Brilliant's content come from.
#1 Followed Neuroscientist: The Effects of AI on Your Brain
BigDeal by Codie Sanchez
The institution where a study on AI's effect on critical thinking was conducted.
Safi Bahcall: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that Transform Industries | SXSW 2019
SXSW
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Vannevar Bush served as Dean of Engineering and built it into a leading technology university before moving to Washington D.C. during a national crisis.
Loonshots How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas with Safi Bahcall
The Innovation Show with Aidan McCullen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Vannevar Bush was Dean of Engineering before moving to Washington to lead scientific innovation for the war effort.
Stanford CME296 Diffusion & Large Vision Models | Spring 2026 | Lecture 1 - Diffusion
Stanford Online
Afin's alma mater for grad school.
Everything You Know is About to Collapse - David Friedberg
Chris Williamson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mentioned in the context of federal student loan programs and the resulting tuition increases across all accredited universities.
How To Become Dramatically Better
My First Million
Mentioned as the institution where Dr. Ann Greyel conducted research on habits.
THEY’RE BRAINWASHING YOU! (& other secrets that made you click) - Etymology Nerd
Chris Williamson
Where the guest took a conlanging class, further developing his interest in constructed languages.
Scott Aaronson on Computational Complexity Theory and Quantum Computers
Y Combinator
Aaronson was a student at MIT when he worked with Adam Yedidia on a thesis project concerning Busy Beaver numbers.