Phoebe Gates' Secret Harvard Class on Manipulation

hanging out. If you go to GSB, >> if you if you wind up going GSB route, um, Professor Feifer, Prof. Feifer does a course called Power >> and there's a case study in it about this podcaster, blogger, kid from Brooklyn who accumulated far too much power than he deserves. Oh, no. >> In Silicon Valley and it's about me and I go every year to talk to the students about accumulating power through media >> and other things. So, good luck, Ethan. Uh, hopefully I'll see you on campus. >> Thanks, Ethan. Yeah, likewise. See you guys around. Peace out. >> That's like that Harvard class that Bill Gates's daughter was in that teaches you how to manipulate people and cheat. Did you hear about that? >> Oh, how how to manipulate your son. [laughter] >> Yeah. No, it is. Apparently, the rumor is there's a Harvard class that's about like how to rule the world through manipulation. It's like a secret a secret class. And they say that that Yeah. that Phoebe Gates was in it and that's where she learned. >> Oh, I think she's being railroaded. I'll be honest. Uh >> really? Wow. cuz I think there might be >> at first you were >> I think this might be like a con I think everybody's kind of trying to manipulate the attribution tag. Um and so I think >> well I'll be honest if she wasn't Bill Gates's daughter >> and she was a dude. >> I'm going to be honest like on two levels. Nepo baby plus woman. >> Yeah. Plus, let's uh she's like a I think she's kind of like an Instagram influencer type, so that has a little baggage with it. Makes people >> table. It's Khloe Kardashian. It's Sydney Sween. >> People resent it. >> Exactly. >> People resent her for being an Epo baby. Resent her for celebrity connections. Resent her for her Instagram stuff. And um if it had been a guy, same set of circumstances. I wonder and I don't have all the details of it because it's a little bit like in >> we'll see. >> None of us. >> I'm guessing somebody might say to the founder, that's a really clever growth hack. >> Trying to get the attribution tag uh so you get the commission. Wow, it's a good growth hack. >> They call it >> Well, they might be like you should probably read the terms of services because you might be in a gray area. That might be how the conversation actually went down >> in my experience in a board meeting because I've seen people go to the gray >> and have these kind of situations. And I always say to them, it feels a little gray. >> Maybe we should read the terms of services and maybe back off this, you know, a little bit. It might be, >> you know, we could get in trouble for this, >> but there might is. Is is this like a criminal legal case? >> I don't I mean, I don't think so. No. And they stopped doing it. As soon as the report came out that said they were doing it, they stopped doing it. So I no I don't think >> anyway I want to adjudicate this case. I'm going to adjudicate this next week on the show. I'll see you on Monday and I will put on my robe. >> This is this week in startups this week in startups.com at twwi startups. We'll see you next time. Bye bye. Bye-bye.