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Stanford Law School grad, Peter Thiel, wants to pay college students to drop out.
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Thiel is in effect, also encouraging college or even high-school dropouts with the under-20 requirement.
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But Thiel goes much further: he dislikes the whole idea of using college to find an intellectual focus.
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Still last year, billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who holds a bachelor and law degree from Stanford, paid students to leave college.
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In the summer of 2004, Hoffman, who had recently founded LinkedIn, and Sean Parker, the Silicon Valley enfant terrible, introduced Thiel to Mark Zuckerberg, who was looking for a major investor in Facebook, then a site for college students.
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