100,000+Dollars+to+Drop+out+of+College?

In May 2011, Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and one of the first investors in Facebook, proposed a controversial path toward more rapid innovation. His Thiel Foundation announced that it was giving 24 people under 20 $100,000 fellowships to drop out of school for two years to start a their own companies. Some of the recipients are leaving first-rate institutions like Harvard and Stanford to take the fellowship. In [|a press release], the foundation's head, James O'Neill, said that in taking the fellowship they were "challenging the authority of the present and the familiar."

Would you leave college for two years to accept $100,000 and start your own business? Answer this short list of questions to give your opinion. media type="custom" key="10268667"

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