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Theo Baker

@tab-delete.bsky.social

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investigations. george polk award. words in NYT, NYMag, The Atlantic, elsewhere. likes and rts are not endorsements. HOW TO RULE THE WORLD out 5/19 with Penguin Press.

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Theo Baker @tab-delete.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The teens identified as future trillion-dollar startup founders live in a hush-hush world. VCs pay for exclusive clubs like "No Filter" and perks including "pre-idea funding." There's even a secret class: "How to Rule the World." My book (out 5/19) excerpted in @theatlantic.com. (Link below)

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Theo Baker @tab-delete.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The news is out! HOW TO RULE THE WORLD will be published by Penguin Press on 5/19—about 3 weeks before my graduation. From slush funds to yacht parties to fraud, the book captures Silicon Valley’s training ground as never seen before. Meet the kids learning to rule the world.

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Theo Baker @tab-delete.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Stanford has joined an amicus brief in support of Harvard, emphasizing the importance of university research.

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Theo Baker @tab-delete.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

In the rush to publish, something may have been overlooked...

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Theo Baker @tab-delete.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

More top law firms, including #1 Kirkland Ellis ($7.2bn in revenue last year) and #2 Latham Watkins ($5.6bn in revenue), have caved to Trump demands. Trump has now extracted nearly $1bn from law firms, blackmailing some for effectively no reason apart from the fact that he can.

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Theo Baker @tab-delete.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Stanford has hired Andrew Luck’s former coach, Frank Reich, as interim head football coach in the wake of Troy Taylor’s firing. With the team already underwater (3-9 the last two years), and several players entering the draft portal this week, Reich’s year may not be fun.

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Theo Baker @tab-delete.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Given the crash here not long ago, all I can say is that I’m grateful to the captain and desperately hope that air travel continues to be safe and well-managed in this country. The flight was UA 1449.

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Theo Baker @tab-delete.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Notable: Stanford follows MIT in adopting a hiring freeze for nonfaculty employees, further emphasizing the uncertainty major universities are facing at the moment.

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Theo Baker @tab-delete.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Under Muir, Stanford won dozens of national championships...BUT he also oversaw - a disastrous attempt to cut 11 sports - the Varsity Blues scandal (he was implicated but denies participation) - failure on NIL - AND catastrophe with Stanford cut out of conference realignment

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Theo Baker @tab-delete.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

In 2023, I wrote an @nytimes.com essay about how journals, institutions, scientists, and journalists have been slow to confront research integrity. With everything now, I want to reshare it. Honest investigation can’t fall by the wayside even as bad-faith actors attack. It has to be the opposite.

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Theo Baker @tab-delete.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Susie Wiles taking Jon Batiste’s seat on the Kennedy Center board is so funny to me. He has seven Grammy’s she has hair full of secrets allá Gretchen Weiners — it’s a perfect swap!

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Theo Baker @tab-delete.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

With all the talk about slashing NIH indirects, I’m surprised more people aren’t discussing the last time this was huge scandal—when *Democrat* John Dingell went on a campaign in the ’90s to blast Stanford for exorbitant spending on the government’s dime. 1/3

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Theo Baker @tab-delete.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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Theo Baker @tab-delete.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Tidbit: Jay Bhattacharya, likely the next NIH director, organized a conference at Stanford this year described by LAT and others as a platform for COVID misinformation purveyors. He asked the president of Stanford, Jon Levin, to speak. Here’s what Levin told me:

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