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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

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The catch was, Thiel wanted to announce the program the very next day — at a previously scheduled on-stage interview he was doing at the influential TechCrunch Disrupt conference. And he wrote the white paper for it around the time of that bagel meetup for the Thiel Fellowship. Lots of people see this as a world-changing idea.

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