Harvard is Dead! (End of the Ivy League)

Join us as we explore a bold prediction: a future where Harvard University, and education alike, may lose its allure. We delve into a future run by algorithms, predicting job trends, the rise of alternative education, and personal branding's potential power. We also discuss the financial implications of student loan debt versus the cost-effectiveness of other, emerging educational options.

Hear from thought leader Nicholas Crown on how to navigate the changing educational landscape and investments in the age of AI and automation. Don't miss out as we break down what this might mean for students and investors alike. We aim to inspire you to adapt, innovate, and never stop learning.

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - The Future of Harvard University
00:00:39 - The AI Revolution and the Future of Work
00:01:21 - The Rise of Alternative Education Models
00:02:00 - Access to Ivy League Education on YouTube
00:02:37 - The Changing Economics of Education
00:03:15 - Investing in Technological Renaissance
00:03:54 - The Power of Online Networking and Community Engagement
00:04:36 - The Rise of the Entrepreneurial Spirit
00:05:13 - The Changing Landscape of Education

[orleans]

I agree with you and I graduated from Harvard. The Ivy League is now a federation of woke, liberal cult theology schools. The people that will succeed are the ones that embrace practical learning, not the ones who worship faculty that are irrelevant.

[tenou]

I didn't graduate from Harvard but do have friends that went. The name brand is so powerful that your major doesn't matter - an Anthropology major could find a role in Data Science without problems in the same hiring cycle.
However if that name brand ever fades....

[gaelle]

Actually the Ivy league is about contacts so I think it will become more important for a certain category of people.

[queenbey]

We were just having this conversation at work. The problem with ivy league grads the last half decade is that seems to be the only impressive thing about them. The expectations are really high for these people and a surprising number of them can't perform basic business tasks and act entitled af. The sheen has definitely worn off if you've ever had to work with these types.

[dragonhowto]

The problem is employers want skills, but they will filter you out by degrees, then skills.

[scharftalicous]

Gotta agree that the value of education is purely what you've learnt and how you apply it. A lot of engineering students that I went to uni with couldn't tell you what a section modulus is, I can still derive it from first principles and I'm proving to be a handy engineer

[Lasertrac]

Started watching your YT shorts and thought they were quirky not in a good way. Then watched this and I'm humbly impressed. You seem genuinely out to help people. Good job

[matthewkornmeier]

I do agree that the value of Ivy League or other prestigious higher education has diminished, but I feel there is still something to be said about the experience of attending college as an integral part of growing up and expanding your perspective. I see the value of education at a prestigious school in all the friends I have made, people I have met, the fun I’ve had, and the interest I have taken in what I am studying. Also prestigious schools are the only way into many career paths that so many want to take. That’s just my two cents.

[jessyp]

as a Oxford alumini and graduate this is very true

[MiamiMark]

Says someone who graduated from Cornell and celebrates his success online...🤔

[amyx]

I regret sometimes not staying in the state of my college. The connections….

I wish I had a Harvard degree on my resume! That network….

[baasmans]

There’s still the fundamental STEM sciences, that’s hard to replicate off campus or automate

[andriimarchuk]

Man how you get me subscribed via shorts and now providing this level information is brilliant. I’m impressed.

[thomaja]

I work in IT, after I left the Marines and used my GI Bill on a fly by night school decades ago I studied for and took the A+ certification. Never looked back and never got a degree.

[suecampbell]

Thanks for helping us see the shift from education requirements into life experiences even more so with the use of AI. So, can you please show us the diff between OLD rich and OLD really rich vs NEW rich (kids with $6000 rents in NYC) and NEW really rich (looking like anyone else but enjoying a very expensive lifestyle). It used to be that rich people wore suits with wild shirt/pocket square colors. Now they wear solid colored tshirts and very little jewelry. THEY are super rich. Times have changed. Can you please consider doing videos about that? Thanks!

[numberoneappgames]

Thanks for the video. :)
There are so many pros and cons of all these things happening. It can be head-spinning.

[paperburn]

We pay 6 figures and most of us just have Certs in the field we work. Those that do have degrees are usually just online schools. The ability to perform is what keeps you the job. The Degrees /Certs just get you in the door for the trial period.

[mathewhumvee]

Most of the people I have interacted with from IVE schools can be summed up in one phase. Incredible smart, not very intelligent. Ask them to recite a book, or formula and you will be amazed. Give them a curve ball or a situation they haven’t read about before and they lock up.

Not saying everyone is not extremely intelligent from those schools. But more often than not it’s very very frustrating working with them. Well the books says this, or the book said that, and this is the way the book says it should be done to run a proper business….. bla bla bla.

I have personally seen companies fire 30plus year veteran of the company, replace them with IVE grades, and in 3 years time the company is in shambles.

[lukaszrower]

Like any institution, it goes through periods of growth and decline. Now it's falling like the Titanic

[zandaroos]

I disagree for one big reason: research. As technological advancement remains the primary driver of economic success and the private sector remains unwilling to invest in to “base” science and math (RIP Bell Labs Physics Division) — Harvard and other R1 research universities’ deaths will be greatly exaggerated. While alternative education platforms are good for technical skills they do poorly at disseminating theoretical information (anyone who’s tried to rawdog a Real Analysis textbook knows this well). Not to mention increasing returns on capital from advancing from tend to have downstream effects to other elites salaries and services demand.

With current trends elite schools are likely to become more competitive as the gap between elite college starting salaries and non-elite college starting salaries widen. Technology that substitutes labor tends to suppress middle and working class incomes while benefiting upper class incomes after all.