IMO it’s very smart to partner with CMU rather than attempt to start Griffin University. University prestige is one of the longest-duration network effects in the economy… CMU itself is the newest university in the top 50 in the US, from 1900! A degree is valuable in large part because everyone agrees it’s valuable. Students want Harvard because employers and grad schools value Harvard. Employers value Harvard partly because great students go there. Great students go because great faculty,…