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VC Invests in Hometown YouthNovember, 2002
Robert Kagle, MBA ’80, is best known in Silicon Valley as a savvy investor in startups. In Flint, Mich., the general partner in Benchmark Capital makes news for investing in startups of a different sort. Kagle, who grew up in the industrial town, has not forgotten where he came from. In May he flew nine Flint-area teenagers to Stanford to be interviewed for the Quest Scholars Program. The program teaches high-achieving youth raised in poor households and neighborhoods how to prepare for admission to the nation’s top universities. Founded by two former Stanford students, Michael and Ana McCullough, the intensive summer residential program now operates on both the Stanford and Harvard campuses. Of 42 students who were accepted nationwide into the program this past summer, nine were from Flint, thanks to Kagle, who also sponsored three Flint students the previous year. |
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