Thiel Fellows
About
- Website
- Paid $4k monthly in SF with high living expenses [1]
- FAQ [2]
- Slate article - [3]
- Dropouts succeed in spite of dropping out. We're just selecting for outliers.
- College grads earn more, but some bogus trick shows that associate degree holders have higher ROI than professional schools:
Is there anything else like it?
Is there anything else like the Thiel Fellowship? No, the Thiel Fellowship is the only thing like it. The most similar is Breakout Labs (also from the Thiel Foundation but not specifically targetted at young people). Some other programs you can apply to are:
- Breakout Labs: We're reshaping the way early-stage science is funded, so that early-stage companies can advance their most radical ideas.
- Enstitute: Enstitute is a non-profit, appreticeship-based, educational experience that turns startups and small businesses into classrooms.
- Mass Challenge: We connect entrepreneurs with the resources they need to launch and succeed immediately.
- Singularity University: Our mission is to assemble, educate and inspire a new generation of leaders who strive to understand and utilize exponentially advancing technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges.
- Unreasonable Institute: Giving high-impact entrepreneurs wings.
- YCombinator: Y Combinator does seed funding for startups.
- Echoing Green: The Echoing Green Fellowship program has provided more than $2 million in seed funding to a diverse group of the world’s most promising social entrepreneurs.
- TechStars: TechStars provides seed funding from over 75 top venture capital firms and angel investors who are vested in the success of your startup, as well as intense mentorship from hundreds of the best entrepreneurs in the world.
- Venture For America: Modeled after Teach for America, Venture for America will provide a path for entrepreneurship to college grads who want to learn how to build companies and create jobs.
- UnCollege Gap Year: Gap year is a one-year program designed to help young people learn how to learn.
- Conrad Spirit of Innovation Challenge: The Conrad Spirit of Innovation Program challenges student teams to use STEM, innovation, entrepreneurship, and 21st century skills to develop world-changing solutions to create a more sustainable world for this and future generations.
Yoonseo Kang, 2011
Check out Yoonseo's 2 minute application to the Thiel Fellowship. OSE participant from 2012 who received $100k to drop out and work on mutually assured abundance.
