I know it's not requisite in the startup world to go to a top school, but every time I read a story like this I have to mentally justify my education and qualifications. I feel I'm a decent hacker who can produce, but I feel my background pales in comparison to guys like these.
Everyone looks bad compared to the aggregate. Individual differences are more manageable.
Stripe's success has more to do with hard work than genius.
One University of Toronto Math postdoc I talked to in the airplane shuttle back to Palo Alto, and now works at stanford says that Stanford Undergrads have about the level of difficulty at the UoT students, except they do more extra curriculars. It might be related to the weather.
University degree Brands are cheap and lazy filters, and on top of that, their a branding upon people, one of the most inconsistent 'products' in the world. Degrees indirectly correspond to the persons ability and the amount of wealth their family has. Don't look at them more than that.