July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English

In September 2010, billionaire entrepreneur and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel said something that caused middle-class parents to cover their children’s ears and Ivy League deans to recoil in horror. Thiel suggested that smart kids might not benefit from attending college and questioned the entire value of formal higher education. He then backed up his statement by announcing the Thiel Fellowship—a $100,000, two-year grant to students who choose not to attend college so that they can pursue their entrepreneurial dreams.1
The annual selection process for Thiel Fellows is incredibly rigorous, with just twenty to twenty-five future fellows accepted ...
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