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Thiel Foundation

The fellowship runs as an annual cohort rather than a rolling programme, open to young founders willing to pause or skip a conventional college education to build their venture full time.

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The Thiel Foundation is the philanthropic organisation founded by entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel. Its primary public programme, the Thiel Fellowship, launched in 2011 and gives a $250,000, two-year grant to young people who leave or skip college to build a company or research project instead. The Fellowship pairs that funding with access to the Foundation's network of founders, investors an

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