Dropouts
The Break That Never Ended
Palmer Luckey left Cal State Long Beach for a headset and a Kickstarter. Years later he is careful about who should follow.
Dropouts
Dropouts
She Reached MIT at Fourteen, Then Left to Fund the Fight Against Aging
Laura Deming took a Thiel Fellowship in the program's first class and turned it into a longevity venture fund, then a cryonics company.
Dropouts
The Teenager Who Traded Waterloo for a Blockchain
Vitalik Buterin left university in 2014 on a $100,000 Thiel grant to build Ethereum, a bet that paid out in code more than comfort.
Dropouts
The Freshman Who Took the Check and Left Brown
Dylan Field swapped a computer-science degree for a $100,000 Thiel grant and spent four years building Figma in near-silence.