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Peter Thiel: I’m Really Not Crazy; I Just Want to Help Some Kids

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Re: Peter Thiel: I’m Really Not Crazy; I Just Want to Help Some Kids

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Post by gonehome »

browsemybooks wrote: post #2

I find it interesting that those proclaiming that students bypass education (including Tony Hsieh) are products of the top universities.

They themselves might be, but some of the notable people they've invested in have dropped out. Granted for Zuckerberg it was Harvard he dropped out of.

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Post by jtbigwoo »

browsemybooks wrote: post #2

I find it interesting that those proclaiming that students bypass education (including Tony Hsieh) are products of the top universities.

Also interesting to note that they're generally the product of upper middle class families and probably had a strong financial support system to fall back on if they failed.

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Post by _delirium »

browsemybooks wrote: post #2

I find it interesting that those proclaiming that students bypass education (including Tony Hsieh) are products of the top universities.

Thiel himself has two degrees from Stanford. He appears to have liked higher education enough to keep going back for more!

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Post by _delirium »

gonehome wrote: post #3
browsemybooks wrote: post #2

I find it interesting that those proclaiming that students bypass education (including Tony Hsieh) are products of the top universities.

They themselves might be, but some of the notable people they've invested in have dropped out. Granted for Zuckerberg it was Harvard he dropped out of.

Zuckerberg is actually the only one I can think of, though I assume there must be at least one or two others. But if you look through Thiel's portfolio companies, they're stuffed to the gills with people with degrees, often multiple degrees, from top universities. PayPal was all people with degrees, LinkedIn is people with degrees, Palantir was founded by a PhD, etc.

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Post by jakarta »

gonehome wrote: post #3
browsemybooks wrote: post #2

I find it interesting that those proclaiming that students bypass education (including Tony Hsieh) are products of the top universities.

They themselves might be, but some of the notable people they've invested in have dropped out. Granted for Zuckerberg it was Harvard he dropped out of.

Plus there is always the fact that when you drop out of Harvard, they usually give you the ability to come back later on.

Makes dropping out to pursue a startup a low risk / high uncertainty bet.

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