Arduino's "arm's-length" foundation is being run by CEO who lied about his degrees from MIT and NYU

[ficuswhisperer]

I brought this up last time there was a post about this guy. Apparently that take degrees really seriously in Europe and place a large amount of importance on this (good old boys club, basically).

Arduino's new CEO has spent years pretending to have an MIT PhD and an NYU MBA

I don’t really get why it’s considered necessary to lie about your affiliations like this. Yes, having a degree from a fancy school is great for prestige and can help to open doors more easily and provides connections. That said, the open source – and tech community at large greatly values action over fluff. Just having a fancy degree from a fancy school doesn’t mean you’re actually any good outside of the world of academia. I can’t tell you how many CS graduates from big name schools I’ve inter…