Thiel Fellowship

The Thiel Fellowship (originally named 20 under 20) is a fellowship created by billionaire Peter Thiel through the Thiel Foundation. The fellowship is intended for students aged 22 or younger and offers them a total of $100,000 over two years, as well as guidance and other resources, to drop out of school and pursue other work, which could involve scientific research, creating a startup, or working on a social movement. Selection for the fellowship is through a competitive annual process, with about 20–25 fellows selected annually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiel_Fellowship

https://www.thielfellowship.org/

Notable recipients include the following people (year they were awarded the fellowship is indicated in parentheses):

• Lucy Guo (2014) Co-Founder of Scale AI and world's youngest billionaire as of 2022.
• Laura Deming (2011) – founder and partner at Longevity Fund
• Dale Stephens (2011) – founder of Year On, formerly UnCollege, a gap year program with training in work skills and life skills[23]
• Dylan Field (2012) – co-founder and CEO of Figma[24]
• Taylor Wilson (2012) – the second youngest person to produce nuclear fusion[25]
• Ritesh Agarwal (2013) – founder & CEO of OYO Rooms
• Austin Russell (2013) – founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies and the world's youngest self-made billionaire as of 2021[26]
• Vitalik Buterin (2014) – co-creator of Ethereum[27]
• Stacey Ferreira (2015) – co-founder of Forge, a platform for gig workers
• Simon Tian (2015) – creator of the Neptune Pine, a crowd-funded smartwatch
• Iddris Sandu (2018) – co-founder of Spatial Labs,
• Cathy Tie (2015) – founder of Ranomics and Partner at Cervin Ventures[28]
• Boyan Slat (2016) – founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup[29]

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