Most recently, he caused a stir by establishing the Thiel Fellowship, which will select 20 college students under the age of 20 and pay them $100,000 each to drop out of college and embark on ...

The program — which is being billed as Europe's own Thiel Fellowship — offers a €200,000 initial investment in exchange for 6 ...

A recurring theme in Europe's tech world is that the region needs its own Google or Microsoft. Now comes the launch of a new ...

Peter Thiel is offering a $100,000 fellowship to young entrepreneurs who drop out of college. While it's tempting, Scott Galloway reveals why it is awful advice. Following is a transcription of ...

When Adarsh S. Hiremath dropped out of Harvard in his sophomore year to work on his startup Mercor — an AI-powered hiring ...

Foody, 21, won a Thiel Fellowship last year — the Peter Thiel-backed program that provides grants to young entrepreneurs, provided they drop out of school. At Mercor, “Revenue is expanding ...

He became known as a mentor, starting the Thiel Fellowship, which gave $100,000 and two years of support to founders under 20. His most well known mentees — though not Thiel Fellows — include ...

Peter Thiel has recently announced the 2014 class of new Thiel Fellows. The fourth set of young entrepreneurs to be awarded Thiel Fellowships, the fellows will receive support to bring their ...

More than two years ago, at age 19, Ethan Thornton dropped out an aerospace engineering program at MIT to begin R&D work on a ...