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Thiel Foundation announces next Thiel Fellow class: 23 entrepreneurs

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CTRL+F "climate" - Phrase not found. This is saddening. But hey, at least blockchain is present!

I see electric planes and telemedicine, which are both climate related.

And an even bigger one:

> Zeno Power is developing small-scale nuclear power systems to provide clean and resilient power in austere environments.

Re: Thiel Foundation announces next Thiel Fellow class: 23 entrepreneurs

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CTRL+F "climate" - Phrase not found. This is saddening. But hey, at least blockchain is present!

> Zeno Power is developing small-scale nuclear power systems to provide clean and resilient power in austere environments.

Also, not everyone has to frame and align every single one of their actions in accordance with the "progressive" view.

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I didn't know there was so readily a list of places I'd never want to work. Gonna bookmark this site to make sure I never do business with any of them. The most depressing part is how young they all are; which is of course, because they're easier to manipulate lacking real world experience.

“ Lada Nuzhna: 22, Kyiv, Ukraine Lada researches and develops biological tools to better visualize and manage biology at the molecular level.” Um this is pretty cool. Don’t know why you’re categorically dismissive.

I think the concern is that they are taking money from someone with highly debatable/questionable ethics.

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CTRL+F "climate" - Phrase not found. This is saddening. But hey, at least blockchain is present!

Come on...before you post complaints about how someone else is literally giving away millions of dollars to the wrong promising young people, maybe actually read the list of projects?

"Zeno Power is developing small-scale nuclear power systems to provide clean and resilient power in austere environments." He's literally funding clean energy.

And even if this year's list didn't have that in the list, let's celebrate someone doing good instead of lobbing stones from the sidelines about how they didn't do it the exact way we would have.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

“ Lada Nuzhna: 22, Kyiv, Ukraine Lada researches and develops biological tools to better visualize and manage biology at the molecular level.” Um this is pretty cool. Don’t know why you’re categorically dismissive.

I think the concern is that they are taking money from someone with highly debatable/questionable ethics.

Isn’t that true of any public company though? And likely most private ones as well.

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CTRL+F "climate" - Phrase not found. This is saddening. But hey, at least blockchain is present!

That's extremely glass half-empty of you. There's a surprising number of companies in this list that are about sustainable production. And Zeno Power is developing clean (nuclear) energy.

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CTRL+F "climate" - Phrase not found. This is saddening. But hey, at least blockchain is present!

The first person is working electric aviation (but their website mentions military uses alongside the usual medical aid ones - point for honesty?)

Another one is about small scale nuclear reactors.

So it this just about the term? It the people?

It’s not very environmental directed, but not everything has to be.

Re: Thiel Foundation announces next Thiel Fellow class: 23 entrepreneurs

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I didn't know there was so readily a list of places I'd never want to work. Gonna bookmark this site to make sure I never do business with any of them. The most depressing part is how young they all are; which is of course, because they're easier to manipulate lacking real world experience.

Do you even know what the Thiel Fellowships are? Whatever you think of his politics, he literally gives away money to promising young people to help them realize their dreams...in exchange for no equity. Are you really saying that, because you dislike Thiel, you'd never do business with anyone who accepted free money from him?

Re: Thiel Foundation announces next Thiel Fellow class: 23 entrepreneurs

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I didn't know there was so readily a list of places I'd never want to work. Gonna bookmark this site to make sure I never do business with any of them. The most depressing part is how young they all are; which is of course, because they're easier to manipulate lacking real world experience.

They're young (and some live in foreign countries) and in any case probably have no idea what Thiel is really about. I say give them a chance to repent and rehabilitate.

I'd definitely not want to work for a company that takes Thiel's money or has any of his acolytes or close associates on board, though.

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