Most recently, he caused a stir by establishing the Thiel Fellowship, which will select 20 college students under the age of 20 and pay them $100,000 each to drop out of college and embark on ...
Peter Thiel is trying harder than ever to get young people to skip college. Since 2010, Thiel, an early Facebook investor and a founder of PayPal Holdings, has offered to pay students $100,000 to ...
DOGE builds on the United States Digital Service, now rebranded as the U.S. DOGE Service. According to Trump's executive ...
His anti-university Thiel Fellowship remains an unorthodox engine for young entrepreneurs. And then there’s politics. Thiel’s unabashed libertarian conservatism—combined with his billions of ...
One can imagine that being a successful founder requires putting razor-like focus on a particular problem until it's solved, ...
In 2011 he launched The Thiel Fellowship, which gives $100,000 and two years of support to 20 applicants under the age of 20 so they can drop out of school and launch their companies. The Thiel ...