[stupac2]

And in relative terms, our endowment is bottomless.  As a comparison, we played TCU in a bowl game last year. TCU's total endowment is $1.6 billion.  Last year, Stanford's return on its endowment was almost twice that: $2.9 billion.  Stanford's endowment earns almost $8 million a day.  A day.

This is why I don't understand regular Joe Schmoe alums donating to Stanford. It's a completely meaningless amount of money to the institution. If you're going to get your name on a building? Fine, whatever, you could help humanity far more somewhere else but everyone's got their own things. For people who are comfortable-but-not-wealthy? It seems insane.

[stupac2]

And in relative terms, our endowment is bottomless.  As a comparison, we played TCU in a bowl game last year. TCU's total endowment is $1.6 billion.  Last year, Stanford's return on its endowment was almost twice that: $2.9 billion.  Stanford's endowment earns almost $8 million a day.  A day.

This is why I don't understand regular Joe Schmoe alums donating to Stanford. It's a completely meaningless amount of money to the institution. If you're going to get your name on a building? Fine, whatever, you could help humanity far more somewhere else but everyone's got their own things. For people who are comfortable-but-not-wealthy? It seems insane.