故事來源, 已經產生了累計4000億美元的公司

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ten-years-ago-we-created-thiel-fellowship-jim-o-neill/

A surge of regulations surely chilled innovation, but beyond that it was hard to blame pessimism or oil prices when the slowdown had lingered for decades. Stagnant wages were clearly an effect and not a cause. We decided that the hidden factor was talent. In the 1950s and 1960s, the smartest young people flocked to the frontiers of discovery. In the 1970s, though, they became doctors; in the 1980s they became lawyers; and in the 1990s they went to Wall Street. These were well-defined careers with brightly lit gates welcoming crowds down paths that were easy to follow.

What happened to the American archetype of quitting your job to invent something in your garage? Debt happened, we decided. I had previously lost a cofounder because of student debt payments, and we realized such debt made it hard to quit your job and start a company. Tuition had skyrocketed in the previous decades, and the burden of student debt had followed. Credential inflation had encouraged young Americans to earn more degrees than their parents just to keep the same standard of living.

At this point we realized we could make a difference. We could rescue a few people a year and give them permission to start companies before they took on the debt and career-tracking of college. We could also send a signal to their generation that college was a particular good with measurable costs and benefits and that postponing a career to make such a huge purchase should never be a default. We resolved to create a two-year fellowship, call it the 20 under 20 Thiel Fellowship, and give each fellow a grant of $100,000. Our plane landed at SFO and we announced it the next day.

 

Thiel Fellows went on to invent technologies, assemble teams, iterate, fail, and try again. You may know about Figma, Luminar, Upstart, Ethereum, Freenome, Fossa, Augur, Polkadot, or Workflow (which is now part of Siri). Overall, they founded companies worth about four hundred billion dollars, but that figure hardly captures the animations, computer languages, science journals, nonprofits, and venture funds; or the physics, biology, and software tools they devised

 

 

所有跟帖： 

• 他要真有錢可以幫人還了學貸再創業。要人沒畢業就給他幹就是在養佃農啊。 -whaled- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:09:05

• 隻能說他不是你對有錢人要求的那種有錢人，也說明資本的力量就是大啊 -兩女寶媽- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:11:22

• 這人是德國人，摳門兒 -whaled- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:12:43

• no equity taken -mjnew- ♂ (168516 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:12:09

• 讓人commit兩年最好的時間，他隻花十萬塊還獲得投資的最好機會，算盤打得不錯。這錢就是礦廠雇暑假intern的開銷 -whaled- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:14:33

• 所以這就是ScaleAI和礦工的區別。一個沒有啥risk，可以成為富人，一個risk很大，但是能成為富豪。 -Pilsung- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:18:53

• 他給人2年10萬。大學要娃付4年40萬，還commite4年時間，事情就怕比較。對牛人來說，讀大學虧大了 -mjnew- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:19:22

• 至少他沒有脅迫年輕人，那就是買賣 -兩女寶媽- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:21:44

• 當然 -whaled- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:28:23

• 你不喜歡risk，一點問題都沒有呀。：） -Pilsung- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:23:03

• 每人有自己承擔風險的方式，錢什麽時候掙都不晚。 -whaled- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:27:03

• 其實越年輕創業，風險還是越小的。總不至於等到中年創業，家裏有老有小，都等著吃飯。 -Pilsung- ♂ (254 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:37:39

• 我覺得創業可以以耐心等待畢業再做，人也成熟些，獨立些。本科沒畢業做還要靠著sugar daddy不健康。 -whaled- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:41:01

• 那就看創業人是否有闖勁啊。連創業都患得患失的，能成功嗎？ -Pilsung- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:17:01

• 為創業去賣身不值。公平的交易要求雙方都take risk，不能是單向的 -whaled- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:18:11

• 那就不用賣身，自己父母那裏可以弄10萬。但是後期投資呢？這個10萬不過是個Angel fund。 -Pilsung- ♂ (210 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:21:21

• 天下VC也不是他一家，別人也不需要放棄自己的學業去賣身。 -whaled- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:24:29

• 那就說說你都認識哪些VC，或者有哪些VC可以提供投資的。 -Pilsung- ♂ (603 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:31:00

• 錢不是一切，創業也不是一切，犯不著那麽猴急 -whaled- ♂ (65 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:34:37

• 他為啥要浪費錢？2年10萬就能搞定的事，為啥要多花錢 -mjnew- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:17:35

• 紫檀隻會盯著錢，他這個項目不是錢的事，而是提供的強大的network，那是千金難買的資源。 -windyLL- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/19/2023 postreply 11:24:32