More here:https://www.businessinsider.com/25-year-old-sells-startup-founded-high-school-34-billion-2020-8 …
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The Thiel Fellowship gives $100k to 25 kids a year to drop out of college and start a company. This morning a Thiel Fellowshow recipient (now 25 years old) just sold a self-driving car startup he started with his $100k for $3.4 billion at age 18. Hell yeah.
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I LOVE boring non-Silicon Valley, family-owned businesses. This one's a good one: ABC Supply, a roofing material business. 1 of the largest private companies in America with $10billion in revenue. The founders are Ken, Diane Hendricks, worth $8 billion. Here's there story
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People say college is unnecessary bc “the internet”— while we can’t even read the linked article without paying. Our system is really good at identifying value and then making people pay for it. Still need public investment in education for students of all abilities and means.
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"People say college is unnecessary bc “the internet”— while we can’t even read the linked article without paying." I don't get the connection. What does college/the internet have to do with providing a service and getting paid for it?
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OTOH, I met multiple Thiel Fellows back in the day who used it to learn stuff and party in SF, with the plan to go finish school after the $$ ran out. A small % of big successes doesn't offer valuable commentary on the worth of college or make the Thiel fellowship a good idea.
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It makes Theil fellowship a VERY good idea, actually. Thiel likely made hundreds of millions off a small amount (less than $25m) investment.
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BTW - I tweet about startups, bootstrapping business to $100m in revenue, and boring companies like the one below all the time... FOLLOW ME FOR MORE GOODNESS: Anothe good Tweet:https://twitter.com/theSamParr/status/1295718343694065665 …
I LOVE boring non-Silicon Valley, family-owned businesses. This one's a good one: ABC Supply, a roofing material business. 1 of the largest private companies in America with $10billion in revenue. The founders are Ken, Diane Hendricks, worth $8 billion. Here's there story pic.twitter.com/40twk9CCKQShow this threadShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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..and the remaining 24 in his class?.....
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Many started other huge companies.
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It is.
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