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Didn't he just use his status and prestige to buy his way into New Zealand citizenship? (This is a rhetorical question, the answer is "It would seem so.")
by dvtv75 9y ago
Didn't he just use his status and prestige to buy his way into New Zealand citizenship? (This is a rhetorical question, the answer is "It would seem so.")
- seem_2211 9y agoWhile Thiel definitely charmed his way into a NZ Citizenship (amazing piece here by the way: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/indepth/national/how-peter-thiel-got-new-zealand-citizenship/ http://www.nzherald.co.nz/indepth/national/how-peter-thiel-g...), I always read his comment more as advice to avoid the traditional Management Consulting / Finance / Law career paths that a lot of Ivy League / Stanford / elite school students end up taking, where they work 70+ hours every week, generally competing for a 5% chance to become a partner 15 years down the track. The payoff isn't great. But the prestige of working at McKinsey / Goldman / Cravath is.