Reinvention
Harvard Dropouts With Plan to Disrupt Nvidia Nab Peter Thiel Funding
Here’s what three winners of the billionaire’s fellowship, which controversially requires students to drop out of school, hope to get out of the experience.
Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel at a Bitcoin conference in 2022.
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Three ditched Harvard University to design specialized AI chips. Another two left New York University to develop a better crypto exchange and a photo sharing app.
These are a few of the latest recruits for Peter Thiel’s fellowship program, which grants entrepreneurs age 22 and younger $100,000, under the condition they drop out of school, if they haven’t already. This year the fellowship received its largest ever pool of applicants.