What in the name of the thousand green hells does this have to do with computer science?
EDIT: There is of course a perfectly legitimate interest in teaching this sort of thing; it just has nothing to do with computer science. Doesn't Stanford have a faculty of, I don't know, bubble inflation or whatever?
This is a course on starting a software startups. Culture is incredibly important to be successful at that. Max and Stephen are brilliant developers. So it's probably good to take cues from them on making a culture to facilitate great creations of computer science.
Queues, hilarious. The funny thing is, even though misspelled, it could be made to work. If levchin is interpteted as a producer and anyone listening a consumer.
I suppose this class ostensibly belongs in the business school if one's foremost concern is preserving the correctness of the university academic department ontology, but as a matter of practice CS students are the best fit for this course, and Thiel probably worked with professors in the CS department, not the business school, in creating it. Does it really bother you that much? I guarantee you that this course does not take the place of any real CS class in terms of filling the requirements for a Stanford CS degree.
EDIT: There is of course a perfectly legitimate interest in teaching this sort of thing; it just has nothing to do with computer science. Doesn't Stanford have a faculty of, I don't know, bubble inflation or whatever?