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Peter Thiel “Drop Out of School Project”: Did It Fail?

• francescopnpn 9y ago
  Really? According to my research Vitalik, the founder of Ethereum, was accepted into that program. Arguably Ethereum is the only 10B+ product - worldwide! - founded in the last 4 years.
  • nicksalt 9y ago
    I'd be curious to know why the writer left that out. I'm going to invite him to come join this thread in conversation.
• iapi 9y ago
  This article seems to be done without any significant research there is OYO Rooms, Ethreum and many more founded by Thiel foundation alumni which are unicorns
  • Finnucane 9y ago
    A hotel reservation service is certainly world changing.
    • aphextron 9y ago
      So is an online bookstore.
      • Finnucane 9y ago
        So if a Thiel fellow had started an online bookstore, you’d think that was a big deal?
        • beisner 9y ago
          Parent is talking about Amazon, which started as an online bookstore.
• nicksalt 9y ago
  I think it looks like were going to be able to get the author on this thread. So we can get an understanding as to why.
• markgavalda 9y ago
  This article is from 2013... that's why it's missing Ethereum et al.
• dna_polymerase 9y ago
  Ethereum is currently worth >$83B The 50 biggest YCombinator companies are worth $100B [0], so I'd argue the project does really good. [0]: http://blog.ycombinator.com/2017-yc-annual-letter/ http://blog.ycombinator.com/2017-yc-annual-letter/