Peter Thiel is trying harder than ever to get young people to skip college. Since 2010, Thiel, an early Facebook investor and a founder of PayPal Holdings, has offered to pay students $100,000 to ...

Peter Thiel plans to give 20 more young people $100,000 not to go to college. Thiel started the fellowship in 2010, encouraging students to skip school and start companies instead. The effort has ...

In 2011, Peter Thiel launched a controversial education program to pay college students $100,000 to drop out. The program was widely criticized with many noting the hypocrisy of Thiel, who holds ...

Conversely, he thinks college is so overrated that he will pay students $100,000 to drop out. In 2011, Thiel launched the Thiel Fellowship, a program that offers $100,000 grants to young ...

Earlier this week, Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir who co-founded the company alongside Thiel, blasted anti-Israel protesters who have caused chaos on college campuses. Karp said that the ...

Dylan Field dropped out of an Ivy League school in 2012 to take a grant from the billionaire Peter Thiel and start a software ... young adults to leave college and start companies with $100,000 ...

Vilage, one of two area winners of a full-tuition scholarship to Thiel College, was overcome with emotion as his parents, extended family, school principal, and officials from Thiel presented him ...

And investors have become more willing to back startups launched by young people without college degrees. Thiel’s program was never meant to last forever, he says. In fact, he recently ...