Isn't the whole point of the Thiel Fellowship to pay kids to drop out? Thiel is trying to prove some point about academia, but, as you say, it stacks the deck b

Isn't the whole point of the Thiel Fellowship to pay kids to drop out? Thiel is trying to prove some point about academia, but, as you say, it stacks the deck because the fellowship includes a lot of the connections and foot-in-the-door help that its recipients would otherwise get in university.