Wow. Why would anybody want to provide strong incentives (100k$) to kids to drop out of college?
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Replying to @chriswolfvision @zacharylipton
If you don`t drop, you cannot focus on your startup.
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Replying to @ducha_aiki @zacharylipton
Why can't you focus on your startup after you finished your degree?
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If your startup can wait four years, it's probably not a particularly strong idea and you're almost certainly the wrong person to be working on it. These projects aren't akin to a mom-and-pop corner store.
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My remark was not on a particular person, and I do not look down on dropouts. I meant the politics of this grant and its incentives. This call could have targeted students with finished degrees and there is no reason why it should particularly encourage dropping out of college.
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Replying to @chriswolfvision @webdevMason and
Another possibility would have been to not condition it at all to the presence of a degree or stopping college. What is the point in singling out exactly this behavior?
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Replying to @chriswolfvision @webdevMason and
Lastly, Thiel himself seems to have a BSc and a J.D., so why would he ask people to do something different than what he did himself?
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If he did not have these credentials, the criticism would be that he lacks a personal understanding of the system he seems to be trying to undermine.
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I think the most obvious answer is that he doesn't believe college is generally useful for much more than the network, at least for a certain sort of person. Until the fellowship, there weren't alternatives for obtaining the network.
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If you think that networks can replace a solid education at a university, then college is not for you, yes.
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That was certainly my conclusion after 3 years at college, and yes, I'd have been better off leaving a lot earlier or — at bare minimum — focusing a lot more of my energy on networking
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