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Meet Peter Thiel, the controversial tech billionaire and GOP kingmaker
Peter Thiel, the billionaire cofounder of PayPal, is one of tech's most public Conservatives.
Madeline Berg
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Peter Thiel doubles down on his program to pay kids not to stay in school
Billionaire Peter Thiel is "doubling down" on his program that encourages kids to skip college beca…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Inside the disastrous early days of the Thiel Fellowship and the depression, mental health issues, and drug abuse that followed
Billionaire Peter Thiel created the fellowship on a whim to fix his image and mismanaged his earlie…
Dorothy Cucci
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Many of tech's power-players are alumni of Peter Thiel's controversial fellowship, which pays entrepreneurs to drop out of college. See how they made their millions.
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Samantha Delouya
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Meet Blake Resnick, a 23-year-old college dropout who went on to win a Peter Thiel-backed fellowship, supplies drones to Ukraine, and is now worth over $100 million
Resnick built a nuclear fusion reactor in his parent's Las Vegas garage when he was just 14 years o…
Huileng Tan
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How Peter Thiel's fellowship program has birthed power players worth more than $220 billion collectively, from crypto giant Ethereum to Adobe rival Figma
The idea was to help young people see their budding ideas funded and realized with access to coachi…
Katie Canales
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Marc Andreessen throws his support behind an Elon Musk-Mark Zuckerberg cage fight in a talk with Peter Thiel
Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, who spoke on a panel at "summer camp for billionaires" in Sun Vall…
Will Gendron
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Want to start your own business? Know what helped OYO’s Ritesh Agarwal start his own company!
“The first quarter was spending at the bay area, hanging out with starters, learning from our mento…
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This Stanford dropout just landed $4.6 million from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund to help people automatically fight parking tickets
He said the company works with paralegals to identify municipal codes or other hyper-localized laws…
Megan Hernbroth
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This 24-year-old dropped out of college, won funding from Peter Thiel, then raised $480 million for his startup
The way Oyo works is by partnering up with smaller hotels, turning them into franchisees, and givin…
Shona Ghosh
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Peter Thiel is trying to save the world: the apocalyptic theory behind his actions
Perhaps privately, Thiel worried that Gawker was stirring up tensions and slowing global progress w…
Gus Lubin
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Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel agree that business school can be dangerous - and they pause when they see it on an entrepreneur's resume
Hoffman said that when he sees that someone is pursuing or received a JD or MBA, he thinks, with fe…
Richard Feloni
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Silicon Valley billionaire investor Peter Thiel may be in line for a top intelligence job in the White House
A venture capitalist, Thiel has long had connections to the intelligence community through Palantir…
Caroline Cakebread
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Here's how Peter Thiel's college dropout entrepreneurs are doing
More lastingly, Thiel seems to have sparked a drive among bright high school kids with top-notch co…
Matt Rosoff
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Almost Half Of The Respondents In Our 'Best Colleges' Survey Don't Think College Is Always Worth It
In a recent appearance at the Nantucket Project conference, Summers railed against Thiel's program,…
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A 23-year-old college dropout got $100,000 from Peter Thiel to make fish-less 'salmon' burgers inspired by soy and sake
Products made from animal cells, like the ones that startups such as Just and Memphis Meats are exp…
Erin Brodwin
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Billionaire investor Peter Thiel explains the two worst pieces of advice you should ignore
And so, in reality, Shakespeare is telling us two things. First, do not be true to yourself. How do…
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20-Year-Old College Dropout Has A Plan To Save The American Clothing Industry
When she starts her fellowship this year, Maxey will explore the ways garment manufacturing can be …
Lynne Guey
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As Silicon Valley vilifies Peter Thiel for his Trump support, there's one group of techies defending him
"Peter has always been a contrarian, vocal about his views no matter how popular or unpopular they …
Biz Carson
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Peter Thiel Is Giving These 20 Teenagers $100,000 To Drop Out Of School And Start A Company
“When we created the fellowship more than two years ago, our intention was to help a small number o…