Peter Thiel designed the Thiel Fellowship to troll his liberal critics
Max Chafkin · Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin · Sep 21, 2021 · at 33:06
Max Chafkin discusses how Peter Thiel launched the Thiel Fellowship—paying young entrepreneurs $100,000 to drop out of college—and used media outrage to promote it.
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“It was totally designed to like, to you know, for lack of a better word, like troll the libs, right? Like they slate did a slate, you know, did like a hit piece on On the, I'm using the builder language here... They use it in their marketing. They loved it. You know, it's like exactly what Peter Thiel wanted was to be, you know, it was to be called out by, you know, some lefty journalist.”
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