Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Wow. Why would anybody want to provide strong incentives (100k$) to kids to drop out of college?

If you don`t drop, you cannot focus on your startup.

Why can't you focus on your startup after you finished your degree?

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.

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.

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?

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?