Comment by dachworker

I don't have much again Thiel's program but US college is only four years. People talk as if that's an eternity. At 22 you're still basically a kid. If you are a genius of geniuses, you can even speed run college and finish sooner. That said, the article is talking about the big picture and missing all the important details. These Thiel fellows think that Thiel's connections and network, which is basically SV startup scene aristocracy, are worth more than what connections than can gain at a top-10 US college. They probably aren't wrong.