Re:What Happened to the Thiel Fellows
by gumby on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @02:20PM
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What a vapid puff piece. For example:
> It became one of the most elite credentials for young entrepreneurs.
Umm, really? "Elite" in the classical sense of "drawn out of the larger pool", sure, but in the sense of somehow being better than the run of the mill group, I don't see it.
> none of the successful dropouts ever went back to school.
Famously Michal Dell did to make his mum happy. Woz, under an alias.
> It became one of the most elite credentials for young entrepreneurs.
Umm, really? "Elite" in the classical sense of "drawn out of the larger pool", sure, but in the sense of somehow being better than the run of the mill group, I don't see it.
> none of the successful dropouts ever went back to school.
Famously Michal Dell did to make his mum happy. Woz, under an alias.