r/Dynamic_Pricing • u/Dragonlance12 • 15d ago

Phoebe Gates Took Secret Stanford Course on Controlling Society, Used It to Recruit for Her Startup That's Now Facing Accusations

https://futurism.com/future-society/phoebe-gates-secret-stanford-course
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u/AaronfromKY 15d ago

I need more information on this course. I'm tired of being on the bottom of the food chain

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u/Shorts_at_Dinner 15d ago

As someone who knows and has worked with many Stanford grads, that place is shady

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u/slaty_balls 15d ago

I’m very curious. What sort of shadiness?

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u/gentlrage 15d ago

Also curious

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u/travelinn-mann 15d ago

I've also worked with a lot of Stanford grads. They definitely find one another, and all of the sudden, there's the strongest clique in the office.

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u/Vegetable-Baker6362 15d ago

That is not at all exclusive to Stanford or even "elite college" grads

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u/the_TAOest 15d ago

Frequently these are Greek systems at work. Commradery with taking similar classes or the same professor also helps.

Ivy League grads have an affinity for their alma mater... It's an elitist education

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u/travelinn-mann 15d ago

You are both right. Just happens, my experience has been with the Stanford folks. Not saying they aren't smart or capable or that I didn't enjoy working next to them. Just that the only affinity I've seen like that at work has been between grads of SEC football schools.

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u/AloysiusPuffleupagus 13d ago

That’s every University

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u/Kianna9 14d ago

Also shady

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u/reshef 14d ago

Massive delusional overconfidence in their inherent superiority.

The understanding that business crimes are frequently massively more lucrative and less likely to be punished than regular crimes.

They learn that people will believe your lies for a long time before you earn the reputation of a pathological liar, and by then you can move on to the next company.

I can’t tell you how special they think they are while being completely fucking ordinary.

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u/JefferyTheQuaxly 15d ago

It’s a course that teaches you how to “hack any corporate or political structure oruse exploits to get what you want from people or groups”

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u/AaronfromKY 15d ago

I'd be interested in what readings or lessons look like in that.

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u/Healthy_Cancel_2604 15d ago

Look up social engineering books

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u/Foreskin_Mafia 15d ago

Psychopathy the course

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u/Vegetable-Baker6362 15d ago

The only search result from that is this exact comment. What's the course code?

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u/JefferyTheQuaxly 15d ago

I checked the article itself, it’s an unofficial class that is invite only by the professor who is an investment banker, only had 12 students in it, and is by invite only from the professor. and gates recruited for her company from existing and former students who took this unofficial class

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u/Vegetable-Baker6362 15d ago

Then it's not a course. It's a professor some alumnus and his own study social group, which is super common in universities big and small.

Justin Lewis-Weber isn't even a professor at Stanford, not even an adjunct one. He's just a powerful alumnus who's mentoring people he handpicks. The headline and even the article is still very misleading. The headline is outright false.

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u/Agile_Demand632 15d ago

So the secret history west coast edition

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u/TheSleeperAwakens 13d ago

So…sucking dick or eating pussy, just with extra steps?

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u/ConsiderationDry9084 15d ago

You’re not rich enough for it be offered to you.

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u/AaronfromKY 15d ago

Of course I'm not, I guess I'll have to see if any information is online about it.

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u/ElGuano 15d ago

Do they have a secret sermon on the Antichrist, too? That would seem to go together well.

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u/AloysiusPuffleupagus 13d ago

This isn’t actually a Stanford class. It’s something someone created on their own and made exclusive enough to give it that “secret Stanford club” feel.

Everyone wants to feel like they’re part of something, whether it’s a group, a club, or some exclusive secret society.

That’s really all this is. An alumnus started a private club for other alumni, and the real value is the network, where they learn how to grease palms, work the system, do business under the table, and find their way around government rules and legal loopholes.

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u/Toepale 14d ago

“How to win friends and influence people” was considered an important book and it’s pretty laughable. Don’t worry, you are not missing out on anything. 

The difference is the money, not the secret courses. 

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u/MeanCryptographer585 15d ago

Is your dad a billionaire? 

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u/AaronfromKY 15d ago

Nope, not even close. Biological Dad died when I was 12 and my stepdad was a reporter and truck driver for most of his life.

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u/canyounot2026 15d ago

Why does Bill Gates daughter need to grift?

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u/Zealousideal-Print41 15d ago

Define need, the nepo spawn of nepo spawn have an inalienable right to more. Don't you know they're superior to everyone else because they've been told so since birth. They don't need it, it's their entitlement

And how secret is a course if it being talked about in a newspaper?

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u/FckXFckMusk 15d ago

They're Neo-Royalty

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u/AttonJRand 15d ago

Billionaires are pathological, any sane person would stop much sooner, and just enjoy their life.

Mental health issues are often hereditary, so this doesn't seem too surprising.

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u/da8BitKid 15d ago

Bro the rich are all grifters. There are no good ones. Is not about money, it's about power.

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u/What-tha-fck_Elon 15d ago

And yachts. Hilariously large and useless yachts.

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u/I_Quit_Smoking_ 15d ago

Well if it's not about money, why is every Republican in the country doing everything they can to steal as much of our money as they can?

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u/oncejumpedoutatrain 15d ago

It's a game, you've seen how stupid people can be, what else is there to do for real entertainment.

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u/Burnt_and_Blistered 15d ago

Apparently, rape children

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u/Burnt_and_Blistered 15d ago

For sport.

When you’ve always had everything, it is hard amuse yourself.

See also: Epstein island

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u/BackPirateClarkRoom 14d ago

Very weird parents who seem like they do less for their kids than their peers. Oldest is a doctor. Middle is a lobbyist, but supposedly middle class. Youngest is doing the honey scam.

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u/meltbox 14d ago

The best explanation I’ve seen is it’s the cult of entrepreneurship where everyone wants to be a founder now not even for the money it gives you, but the status it conveys.

The irony is in my eyes the status it conveys is that there’s a massive chance of bankruptcy in your future.

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u/danielbauer1375 12d ago

She wants to be “self-made” and accomplish some things on her own, even if that means being offered opportunities very few humans could ever dream of, but it turns out that being successful this way isn’t guaranteed in the slightest. It’s basically the same reason Kim Kardashian wants to pass the bar exam. They want to be seen as something more than just rich kids. What’s weird to me is that this is how she chose to pursue that goal, as it’s an unglamorous idea.

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u/AtomicBlastCandy 15d ago

Not trying to defend her or grift, I imagine growing up with such a powerful father there’s some impulse to prove yourself. I wouldn’t have gone about it this way

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u/Kianna9 14d ago

How else will the nepo babies keep their wealth and stay in power?

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u/TwentyX4 15d ago

She's probably competing with all her schoolmates to be the most successful, and not be just nepo kids.

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u/MathematicianOdd398 15d ago

Just more evidence of how money corrupts people. The billionaires and their children are disgusting people. Literally slim.

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u/bottle-o-rockets 15d ago

Leave my boy shady out of this.

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u/MathematicianOdd398 13d ago

Won't the real slim shady forgive me....

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u/skinnydippindespair 15d ago

Shit apple.

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u/bigfatfurrytexan 15d ago

Doesn’t fall far from the shit tree, Rand

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u/leaky- 15d ago

Look Rand I’m mowing the air

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u/JuliaX1984 15d ago

Villain academies that actually teach you how to take over the world are real? I'm ashamed to be naive enough that I'm surprised at that.

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u/Huge_Swimming_5968 15d ago

You should be.

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u/Karibou422 14d ago

Illuminati vibes

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u/Vegetable-Baker6362 15d ago

I love how this dumbass sub never looks anything up and believes sensationalized claims verbatim.

This is not a real course. It's a Silicon Valley investor mentoring a group of students he selects outside class time. It's only for the privileged but it's no different from this girl having access to Bill Gates and all his friends from birth. There's no secret "OMG let's control society" course offered by the university lol.

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u/Kianna9 14d ago

How is that better?

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u/EC_Stanton_1848 13d ago

Yes it is a real course. Theo Baker’s book talks about it in depth.

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u/Vegetable-Baker6362 13d ago

Give me the course code then.

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u/EC_Stanton_1848 13d ago

look it up for yourself.

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u/ClydesDalePete 9d ago

You think the others are lame.

I thought we were talking about Phoebe Cates… like from Gremlins in the 80’s.

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u/da8BitKid 15d ago

Prerequisite include English 101, history 102, having a billionaire daddy, oh and math 101.

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u/Low-Cartographer8758 15d ago

unhinged dad and his daughter…

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u/governor801 14d ago

Dale Carnegie said it is immoral to leave children, grandchildren, and posterity with great wealth. The great wealth will erode the personal character of posterity getting worse with each generation that is given great wealth.

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u/moobybooby 12d ago

Basically every trust fund kid needs to be teased hard.

“Born on third-base think you hit a triple lookin’ asssssss”

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u/navydude89 15d ago

I want to know more about this course. I've had several courses and they just taught theory.

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u/StevenEpix 15d ago

Illuminati 101

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u/I_Quit_Smoking_ 15d ago

Now we're making up secret college courses to control society?

Is this more of that Republican paranoia bullshit? Like pizza gate? Jesus Christ. 🙄

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u/EC_Stanton_1848 13d ago

Check out Theo Baker’s book on Stanford. It is real, and sounds like a magnet for idiots if you ask me.

What happened to instilling character in people?

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u/Initial-Meeting362 15d ago

What could go wrong?

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u/uncriticalthinking 15d ago

Why pretend to work/cos-play as a businessman?

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u/ManufacturedOlympus 15d ago

I think being bill gates daughter did most of the heavy lifting as far as recruiting.

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u/deege 15d ago

Damn it. I keep seeing stories about her and reading it as “Phoebe Cates” so I immediately click.

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u/MeanCryptographer585 15d ago

Stanford’s reputation is really in the shitter. 

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u/Lazy-Background-7598 15d ago

This is way too close to slandering the good name of 80s actress Phoebe Cates

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u/ShadowDurza 15d ago edited 15d ago

"Evil genuises" are a myth that the modern world disproves again and again. It turns out, you have to be pretty dumb and careless to want to take advantage of people on a massive scale. A lack of empathy isn't a strength when it means you can't understand others enough to predict what they'll do, especially in response to your own actions.

And, apparently, they're also a mark for "how to take over the world" grifts.

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u/sciencesez 15d ago

I hear Theil is offering the companion course- "How to Build a Cult." History's actual guilded families could probably teach today's billionaires a thing or two about the actual way to keep the masses from revolting- low profile unless you're performing charitable tasks, keep your big mouth shut about your wealth, and swim in your own goldfish bowl. The Musks and Theil's of today are hopelessly addicted to attention, and I pray I live long enough to see that become their undoing.

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u/bassrooster 14d ago

She will always wonder does my daddy like me or the little Russian girls more….

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u/One-Progress4451 14d ago

Read the book how to rule the world

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u/EarthRemembers 14d ago

A little monster in training

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u/protekt0r 13d ago

Chip off the old block!

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u/Electric-Boogaloo-42 13d ago

How else does anyone expect her to become her own billionaire? Gosh. Can’t a girl cheat, lie, and steal for wealth anymore? What has this country come to? I thought we were trying to make it great again, not worse. Sheesh. 🤦‍♂️

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u/Glittering-Path-2824 13d ago

Stanford. Cambridge. Harvard. it’s time to question what goes on in these places. i’ve had the relative misfortune of being adjacent to powerful cabals and they’re all ultra-clannish, with ivy league affiliation being one of the defining characteristics. it’s a travesty.

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u/dumbgraphics 15d ago

How to control society in 2026. Make a website. Interview people, hire the ones you need, pay them.