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Of course the flip side is Thiel has been so amazingly vocal about his views on higher education you'd think he would have made a his staff aware that this requ
by lrm242 14y ago
Of course the flip side is Thiel has been so amazingly vocal about his views on higher education you'd think he would have made a his staff aware that this requirement wasn't aligned with his views.
In the end it is mostly a depiction of how having a degree is a door opener because it is a default filter for almost all hiring managers. Even hiring managers employed by a vocal advocate of skipping college.
- defilade 14y agoThe job requirements and qualifications for an entrepreneur and a hedge fund analyst are so different that it's not necessarily inconsistent
- ridruejo 14y agoI wholeheartedly agree. In this particular case they may be the opposite ones.
- myblake 14y agoI think that's pretty correct, the entrepreneur's role is to disrupt the status quo, which is pretty much the opposite of how finance seems to operate.
- jarek 14y agoHas Thiel been careful to always specify that his anti-higher-education-in-the-U.S. stance only applies to entrepreneurial people?
- yummyfajitas 14y agoPeter Thiel's exact words on the topic: "The elitist view in the U.S. is that even if people concede that college is not for education, the caveat will be that, well, surely it’s for all the smart people. What we want to suggest is that there are some very smart and very talented people who don’t need college." http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/257531/back-future-peter-thiel-interview?pg=5 http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/257531/back-future-pe... "...are there 20 of those 60,000 who should perhaps not go to college--that does not seem like a terribly controversial statement. That the more talented you are, the more narrow the set of choices you should make? And that if you're a really smart person, the only thing in the world you can do is to go to Harvard?" http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20114584-281/talking-tech-with-peter-thiel-investor-and-philanthropist-q-a/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20114584-281/talking-tech-...