Here’s an interesting announcement. It’s the Thiel Fellowship, the creation of Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, early figure in Facebook, and a hedge fund head. He’s a libertarian, too.
The idea is this. Here’s the sarcastic version: Twenty people under 20 years of age will receive $100,000 to drop out of school—I mean, “stop out"—so that they might do some real thinking and creating and entrepreneur-ing.
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