Which University Is No. 1 for Midas List Members? By Lawrence Aragon If your grad school was the only determining factor in Another interesting factoid getting onto Forbes magazine’s Midas List of top from Newell’s analysis: Three venture capitalists, which school should you attend? of the top 10 people on the Midas List don’t have an MBA: A.) Harvard Business School Andreessen (No. 10), Peter B.) Stanford Business School Thiel of Founders Fund (No. 7), C.) None and Reid Hoffman (No. 3) of Greylock Partners. Thiel has a According to an analysis of the Midas List by James J.D. from Stanford Law School Newell, a senior associate at Institutional Venture James Newell and Hoffman has a master’s in Partners (IVP), the answer is B — Stanford. philosophy from Oxford. Of the 100 investors on the Midas List, 30 have Newell’s list will certainly make for a great recruiting graduate degrees from Stanford; 19 from Harvard; tool for Stanford, but is there anything important to be seven from the University of Pennsylvania; five from taken away from it? You tell me. MIT; four from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University; three from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth; two each from Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley; and seven from seven different universities, including the University of Oxford, Purdue University and Georgetown University, Newell’s research shows. It should come as a surprise to no one in Silicon Valley that the school with the second largest number of people on the Midas List is the School of Hard Knocks. Twenty‐ one people on the list don’t have graduate degrees, according to Newell’s analysis. That list includes Marc Andreessen, co‐founder of Netscape and venture firm Andreessen Horowitz; angel Ron Conway; Kevin Harvey of Benchmark Capital; Roger Lee of Battery Ventures; Danny Rimer of Index Ventures; Greg McAdoo of Sequoia Capital; Ted Schlein of Kleiner Perkins; and Brad Feld of Foundry Group. PEHub I April 11, 2011 .