# Event Details - **Event Name**: This is Now with Angie Coiro: Theo Baker - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 29 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Fri, 29 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: From slush funds to yacht parties Theo Baker shares his account of the investigation that led to the resignation of Stanford's President.About this EventTheo Baker joins us with his revelatory and gripping account of Silicon Valley hubris. About the Book When Theo Baker showed up for freshman year at Stanford University as a tech-obsessed coder, it seemed like paradise. But Baker soon discovered a culture that embraced corner-cutting, and that vested infinite excess and access in the hands of kids with few safeguards to catch bad behavior.Stanford, he realized, was less a school than a business. Its annual budget was nearly twice that of Harvard or Yale and higher than those of 116 countries. The product? Students. Especially those special few identified as the next trillion-dollar startup founders. For them, there were secret societies, “pre-idea” funding offers, and social calls from billionaires, all with the expectation that these geniuses would soon join the ruling elite.At the helm of this business was Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a superstar neuroscientist and wealthy biotech executive. But when Baker joined the student newspaper and started poking around the Stanford president’s record, he discovered never-reported allegations of research misconduct in studies published across two decades bearing Tessier-Lavigne’s name.Only one month into college and thousands of miles from home, Baker began receiving anonymous letters, going on stakeouts, and tracking down confidential sources. High-powered lawyers and public relations teams were hired to attack his reporting. Stanford opened an investigation into its own leader. And by the end of the year, Tessier-Lavigne was out.This is the incredible journey of a reluctant teenage reporter who uncovered a story that shook the scientific world and became front-page news across the country. It is also an unprecedented inside view of the students learning to rule the world—and what they’re learning from those who already do.How to Rule the World is a shocking, hilarious, and moving debut, showcasing Silicon Valley’s training ground as never before.Theo Baker will be in conversation with journalist Angie Coiro. About the Speaker Theo Baker is an undergraduate at Stanford University. His reporting led to former Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s resignation and made Baker the youngest-ever recipient of the prestigious George Polk Award. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, New York magazine, The New York Times, and elsewhere. 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