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Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 18, 2026 · 15 mentions

  • ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Also, he turned his Teal Fellowship hundredk grant into a ten million dollar angel portfolio.
  • ▶ 2:47 Josh Browder There's this saying among the Teal Fellows that, um, they have an expiry date, and we all know these people who are very hyped, and then maybe didn't, ah, stay relevant, and they just, some of them lost their minds, and so that was always…
  • ▶ 31:16 Harry Stebbings In terms of the people that you surround yourself with and learning from their different skills, talk to me about deciding to be a TEAL Fellow and how that came about, because that was a significant turning point. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:31 Josh Browder And so I thought, okay, I'm out of my Teal Fellowship money. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:22 Josh Browder And I could tell from my own journey and interviewing people for the Teal Fellowship and seeing so many founders that Ali was someone who has never give up.

Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:58 Cliff Weitzman So he gave me like Teal Fellows and people who won the award for being the best student at Stanford and Berkeley and whatever.

Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:16:33 Harry Stebbings I've got to ask one more, but you said about Peter Thiel there, obviously he has the Thiel Fellowship and a preference for young, ambitious founders.

a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:05:54 Harry Stebbings We have Project Europe, which is like the Teal Fellowship for Europe, um, basically back eighteen-year-olds with a big dream, yeah, and technical capability.

Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 20, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:48 Adarsh Hiremath At the time, it wasn't obvious at all that we should drop out, and I really, really sympathize with my parents at the time for, you know, not approving, because here I was, we hadn't raised our seed round, we hadn't raised the Series A,…
  • ▶ 6:10 Adarsh Hiremath No seed round, a little bit of revenue, no series A, no Teal Fellowship, nothing.

Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 29, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:00 Delian Asparouhov And I'd just been sort of awarded the, you know, sort of, or was in the process of applying for the Teal Fellowship.

Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 3, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:26 Trae Stephens Um, and he started a program called the Teal Fellowship to convince kids to drop out of college based on this idea that the elite universities are distorting, uh, our, our culture and our values.

Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 12, 2024 · 3 mentions

Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 27, 2023 · 1 mention

Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 6, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:45 Nikhil Basu Trivedi I was actually one of the early interviewers for the Teal Fellowship program, which he was in, and I remember going on walks with him in Palo Alto, and a little bit like you, actually, he was mature for his age.

20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces Dec 14, 2020 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 9:22 Harry Stebbings How do you think about the future of education, especially given the Teal Fellowship experience and all that you have there? 7 times in the scene

20VC: Sequoia's Pat Grady on What Sequoia Is Focused On Today, How Sequoia Think About Investment Decision-Making Processes & Why It Is Important To Trade A Few Points of Efficiency for Culture When It Comes To Attribution Jul 1, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:12 Pat Grady He went to University of Waterloo to study mechatronics, ended up dropping out with the Teal Fellowship, went to Y Combinator, and is today, at the ripe old age of 23, the CEO of the leading autonomous truck company.

20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years Apr 19, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings Prior to changing the world of design with Figma, Dylan held roles at Flipboard, Microsoft, and LinkedIn, and was part of the renowned Teal Fellowship.
  • ▶ 4:50 Dylan Field First time doing more engineering, the second time doing more product design, and then from there, uh, ended up dropping out with the support of the Teal Fellowship to go found Figma.

20VC: Why Raising A First Time Fund Is Like Raising A Seed Round, Why We Need New and Different Fund Models & Why Longevity Is The Most Rewarding Place To Invest with Laura Deming, Founding Partner @ The Longevity Fund Nov 26, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:40 Harry Stebbings Prior to longevity, check this out, Laura was accepted to MIT at the age of just 14 years old to study physics, and then dropped out to join the Teal Fellowship and start the Longevity Fund.

20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI Aug 27, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:20 Daniel Gross So unlike traditional systems where you apply for various other grants like the MacArthur Fellowship, Pell Grant, or even the Teal Fellowship, where you fill out an application, and then you have four or five people just reading thousands…

20VC: Why Every Founder Should Bootstrap Their Startup, How To Solve Information Asymmetry Between Founders and VCs & Living In A Cupboard For Two Years To Fund StyleSeat with Melody McCloskey, Founder & CEO @ StyleSeat Mar 31, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings And as for Melody, as well as running Starseat, she's also the mentor for the Teal Fellowship, working with some of the brightest and best next-generation entrepreneurs.

20 VC 033: The Pros and Cons of Venture Capital, Atomico and Entrepreneurship with Chris Dark, President International @ C2FO May 4, 2015 · 1 mention

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