Comment by JoshuaDavid
2 months ago
FWIW I think the 30u30 to fraud pipeline is overstated. There are 600 people on the American Forbes 30u30 list every year (it's "30 under 30 each year in each of 20 categories"), with 20ish notable instances of fraud, so maybe a quarter percent of the people on the 30u30 list will later become famous for fraud.
I think the pipeline is not really about the 30u30 list as a whole, but about the cover of the magazine, which I feel has had a very high rate of fraud.