Loyal reader Mark M sent me this CNN piece, “Google Doesn’t Care Where You Went to College.”

According to Laszlo Bock, Google’s Head of People Operations:

“When the company was small, Google cared a lot about getting kids from Harvard, Stanford, and MIT, in part because it was efficient, but also in part because we were wrong. There’s absolutely great kids at Harvard and Yale and Stanford and MIT. But there’s exceptional kids at the Cal State schools, at the University of New York system, and all these other places, [kids] who have grit and determination and really fought to get there. And what we find is the best people from places like that are just as good if not better as anybody you can get from any Ivy League school.”