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25 Year Old College Dropout Thiel Fellow Just Sold Self Driving Car Startup for $3.4 Billion

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Unschooling September 6, 2020, 4:20pm 1

Sam Parr ⚪️ (theSamParr)

The Thiel Fellowship gives $100k to 25 kids a year to drop out of college and start a company. This morning a Thiel Fellowshow recipient (now 25 years old) just sold a self-driving car startup he started with his $100k for $3.4 billion at age 18. Hell yeah.

Sam Parr ⚪️ @theSamParr

I LOVE boring non-Silicon Valley, family-owned businesses. This one's a good one: ABC Supply, a roofing material business. 1 of the largest private companies in America with $10billion in revenue. The founders are Ken, Diane Hendricks, worth $8 billion. Here's there story pic.twitter.com/40twk9CCKQ

11:12 AM - 24 Aug 2020 13K 2.2K

Business Insider

Meet the 22-year-old college dropout who wants to power every future...

Peter Thiel paid Austin Russell $100,000 to drop out of college, and now he's built a Lidar startup, Luminar.

https://thielfellowship.org/

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