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Re:What Happened to the Thiel Fellows by throwaway2016a on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @01:43PM (#13125002)
I think university networks are overrated a bit. When you're just one of thousands of graduates you need to bring more to the table than just having the same alma mater. All your peers are trying to leverage the same connections to fit through a skinny pipe.

For every one time I leverage my college network I have 10 where I leverage my network I built after college.

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Re:What Happened to the Thiel Fellows by lambdasquirrel on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @03:51PM (#13126099)
That's true. Then what'd happen to the Thiel Fellowship if you were to scale it the same way? I think you can likewise make the argument that it's kind of an extra-fancy MBA.
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