Isn’t Peter Thiel the guy who was paying kids to skip college? Coincidentally I have someone who reports to me that attended Howard - the only HBCU in the org.

Isn’t Peter Thiel the guy who was paying kids to skip college? Coincidentally I have someone who reports to me that attended Howard - the only HBCU in the org. And everyone else is MIT, Duke, Cal, Michigan, etc. The Howard guy outperformed everyone last year except one guy from Duke. The guy from MIT may be able to solve more classes of differential equations than him, but he absolutely does a better job of understanding customers and articulating the problem and goals. Note, they are all quite good though. The skillset for academia intersects greatly with “the real world”, but the way it’s measured in academia gives the wrong impression. SAT scores may measure intellectual horsepower, but few problems are handled with that. Show me the person who asks clarifying questions and works hard — and I’ll take them even if they get a B+.