The Thiel Fellowship, 1517, and The Future of Education with Danielle Strachman and Mike Gibson
Aug 4, 2019 ·
1h 4m 58s
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Erik is joined on this episode by Danielle Strachman (@DStrachman) and Mike Gibson (@William_Blake), co-founders and general partners at 1517 Fund. They also both worked extensively on the Thiel Fellowship....
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Erik is joined on this episode by Danielle Strachman (@DStrachman) and Mike Gibson (@William_Blake), co-founders and general partners at 1517 Fund. They also both worked extensively on the Thiel Fellowship.
They discuss:
- The story of the genesis of the Thiel Fellowship.
- The lessons learned from running the Fellowship.
- Their idiosyncratic paths to running a venture capital fund.
- The signals they relied on to find the right applicants.
- How to change how higher ed works in the US.
- The lessons that the US can learn from other countries when it comes to college.
- How students can have a conversation with their parents about not going to college.
- Whether something like the Thiel Fellowship can scale.
- The lessons that homeschooling has for other forms of education.
Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.
Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.
Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global and is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg. Grace Chen is our audio engineer and the show is produced by Brett Bolkowy.
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They discuss:
- The story of the genesis of the Thiel Fellowship.
- The lessons learned from running the Fellowship.
- Their idiosyncratic paths to running a venture capital fund.
- The signals they relied on to find the right applicants.
- How to change how higher ed works in the US.
- The lessons that the US can learn from other countries when it comes to college.
- How students can have a conversation with their parents about not going to college.
- Whether something like the Thiel Fellowship can scale.
- The lessons that homeschooling has for other forms of education.
Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.
Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.
Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global and is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg. Grace Chen is our audio engineer and the show is produced by Brett Bolkowy.
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