Exposé by college senior Theo Baker will go inside Stanford as posh recruiting pool for Silicon Valley

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Theo Baker — a Stanford senior whose investigative reporting for The Stanford Daily brought down the university president two years ago — will be out next spring with an exposé of shady ways Silicon Valley uses the prestigious school as a recruiting pool, plying kids with riches and access.

Why it matters: Baker conducted 250+ interviews with students, CEOs, venture capitalists, Nobel laureates, scientific sleuths, professors, athletes, three Stanford presidents and three Stanford provosts — from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State and now director of Stanford's Hoover Institution.