Not really my area of expertise but it seems like there is a lot of that in history. The Greeks didn't exactly rule the world but they influenced the Romans. The Portuguese were the first to sail around Africa to Asia but the English and Dutch ended up bigger winners there.
Paypal is an interesting example because it really only became huge after they sold to eBay and the Paypal mafia left - it's not the most glamorous company today but I think it's one of the 100 most valuable. It's kind of like GE which is certainly descended from the original Edison companies, but most of that success happened after Edison was gone. Of course Edison had arguably more impact than anybody on that era, aside from all of that - not just his inventions, but Henry Ford started at an Edison company and was encouraged by him, for example, and there were others I can't think of right now.
This is still kind of within business but Benjamin Graham didn't have quite as much direct impact or financial success at the time, but his principles and writing were promoted by his disciples, most notably Buffett, and he's still the father of modern investment analysis even if we don't always realize it.
Would University of Waterloo fit the bill as an institution with an amazing alumni network, but that hasn’t broken through as a Stanford-like institution in the average persons eyes (by that I mean “outside of the tech world”)?
I know Byrne and other readers here are fans of Gwern but I only just discovered Gwern's advanced-level tricks for searching databases for papers. https://www.gwern.net/Search
Not really my area of expertise but it seems like there is a lot of that in history. The Greeks didn't exactly rule the world but they influenced the Romans. The Portuguese were the first to sail around Africa to Asia but the English and Dutch ended up bigger winners there.
Paypal is an interesting example because it really only became huge after they sold to eBay and the Paypal mafia left - it's not the most glamorous company today but I think it's one of the 100 most valuable. It's kind of like GE which is certainly descended from the original Edison companies, but most of that success happened after Edison was gone. Of course Edison had arguably more impact than anybody on that era, aside from all of that - not just his inventions, but Henry Ford started at an Edison company and was encouraged by him, for example, and there were others I can't think of right now.
This is still kind of within business but Benjamin Graham didn't have quite as much direct impact or financial success at the time, but his principles and writing were promoted by his disciples, most notably Buffett, and he's still the father of modern investment analysis even if we don't always realize it.
You have ENA public school of affairs in France that has an incredible impact on both french politics and french-speaking countries.
Argov fellowship program in Israel is also an interesting case study
Would University of Waterloo fit the bill as an institution with an amazing alumni network, but that hasn’t broken through as a Stanford-like institution in the average persons eyes (by that I mean “outside of the tech world”)?
I know Byrne and other readers here are fans of Gwern but I only just discovered Gwern's advanced-level tricks for searching databases for papers. https://www.gwern.net/Search
Mega thread on Richard Rorty: https://mobile.twitter.com/ZoharAtkins/status/1430897432699629572