06-14-2024, 07:16 PM
A couple of days ago on X/Twitter, this post went viral for showing someone on LinkedIn who's earned a ton of college degrees, many from ivies.
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(link - https://twitter.com/nbt/status/1801032177318293802)
This caused a lot of commotion on the website. Opinions on this educational background were extremely mixed. On one hand, one of the most common responses from others was that they'd do the same if they had the money. On the other hand, one of the other most common responses was that he's wasting time, avoiding stepping into the real world, has a ton of debt, etc. A few people immediately identified who the profile belonged to.
The following day, the man whose LinkedIn was shown responded. As it turns out, he's the 29 year-old co-founder and CEO of Crimson Education, Jamie Beaton. The company's account posted a short-form video on his behalf.
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On the Crimson Education website, Beaton lists the following degrees (in order):
(link - https://twitter.com/nbt/status/1801032177318293802)
This caused a lot of commotion on the website. Opinions on this educational background were extremely mixed. On one hand, one of the most common responses from others was that they'd do the same if they had the money. On the other hand, one of the other most common responses was that he's wasting time, avoiding stepping into the real world, has a ton of debt, etc. A few people immediately identified who the profile belonged to.
The following day, the man whose LinkedIn was shown responded. As it turns out, he's the 29 year-old co-founder and CEO of Crimson Education, Jamie Beaton. The company's account posted a short-form video on his behalf.
On the Crimson Education website, Beaton lists the following degrees (in order):
- 2016 Harvard - BA Applied Mathematics-Economics and Applied Math
- 2019 Stanford - MBA
- 2022 Oxford - PhD Public Policy (Rhodes Scholar)
- 2022 Tsinghua - MA Global Affairs
- 2023 UPenn - MA Education Entrepreneurship
- 2023 Yale - JD
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JD Candidate - 1L (Class of 2027)
MA Environment & Natural Resources (Class of 2027)
UMPI
BA History & Political Science (2022)
Florida State University
BS Economics (2022)
BS International Affairs (2022)
Minor Mathematics (2022)
LexisNexis Certificates - Statutory Law, Real Estate, Secondary Sources, Corporate/M&A, Bankruptcy, Artificial Intelligence, Labor & Employment, Case Law, Litigation, Transactional, US Civil Law, Lex Machina
Westlaw Certificates - Transactional Certification
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