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Claiming that colleges "don't teach much about entrepreneurship," Thiel is offering up to 20 winners -- under the age of 20 -- $100,000 grants to fund new businesses.
PayPal Founder Offers Students $100,000 To 'Stop Out Of School' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Claiming that colleges "don't teach much about entrepreneurship," Thiel is offering up to 20 winners -- under the age of 20 -- $100,000 grants to fund new businesses.
PayPal Founder Offers Students $100,000 To 'Stop Out Of School' Lauren Sullivan 2010
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A cofounder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook (his stake was recently reported to be around 3%), Mr. Thiel is the unofficial leader of a group known as the "PayPal mafia," perhaps the most fecund informal network of entrepreneurs in the world, behind companies as diverse as Tesla (electric cars) and YouTube.
Technology = Salvation Holman W. Jenkins Jr. 2010
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Mr. Thiel is phlegmatic about his own hedge fund, which took a nasty hit last year after being blindsided by the market's partial recovery from the panic of 2008.
Technology = Salvation Holman W. Jenkins Jr. 2010
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The Thiel Foundation allows the winners to begin their fellowship any time during the year of 2011.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: 18-Year-Old Gets 100K To Improve Internet Searching Youth Radio -- Youth Media International 2011
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Thiel got about $68m and has gone on to become one of tech's most successful investors.
LinkedIn boss poised for $600m payout from sale of shares 2011
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The Thiel Foundation allows the winners to begin their fellowship any time during the year of 2011.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: 18-Year-Old Gets 100K To Improve Internet Searching Youth Radio -- Youth Media International 2011
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He quit after a disagreement with the board and went to join Peter Thiel at PayPal, the online payments company.
LinkedIn boss poised for $600m payout from sale of shares 2011
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The Thiel Foundation, set up by PayPal president Peter Thiel, recently awarded the Twenty Under Twenty Awards to young science and technology visionaries.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: 18-Year-Old Gets 100K To Improve Internet Searching Youth Radio -- Youth Media International 2011
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The Thiel Foundation, set up by PayPal president Peter Thiel, recently awarded the Twenty Under Twenty Awards to young science and technology visionaries.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: 18-Year-Old Gets 100K To Improve Internet Searching Youth Radio -- Youth Media International 2011
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