SHOCK: College may be holding entrepreneurs back. MAGA investor, Peter Thiel gave Dylan Field $100K to drop out of college to start a company. Less than a decade later Dylan sold it for $20B making him a billionaire without incurring any student debt. Is college overpriced?

Dylan Field dropped out of an Ivy League school in 2012 to take a grant from the billionaire Peter Thiel and start a software company called Figma. A decade later, Field’s stake in the company is now worth over $2 billion.

This week’s sale of Figma to Adobe Inc. for $20 billion makes Field, 30, by far the wealthiest person to go through the Thiel Fellowship. The controversial program was designed by the PayPal co-founder to undermine the value of traditional education by encouraging

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www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-16/college-dropout-turns-thiel-fellowship-into-a-2-billion-fortune?leadSource=uverify%20wall

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