Paying students to drop out of college
Photo of Peter Thiel (Image by Flickr user TechCrunch50-2008 (cc:by))
College isn’t worth the time and investment that many people put into it, according to Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal. He’s offering a scholarship to young entrepreneurs to get them to drop out of college and start their own companies.
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