Thiel Fellowship
also referred to as: the thiel fellowship
10 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 29, 2025 by Danielle Strachman · said 67 times in 9 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 61 mentions in 5 episodes 12 per episode
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Aug 29, 2025 neutral
Aug 29, 2025 negative
Aug 29, 2025 positive
Strachman: Almost all inaugural Thiel Fellows voluntarily relocated to SF group houses
“When we first set up the program, we didn't, and we never had any sort of mandate about moving to San Francisco or anything like that. But the first year, almost all of them came to San Francisco, which was a bit of a surprise because we assumed they would Kin…”
Aug 29, 2025
Strachman: Thiel shifted the fellowship focus from broad pursuits to startups
“At one point, even with the fellowship, like we went from, okay, it's not a startup program. And we can have researchers and nonprofit people and startup people. So like a few years later, he's like, well, maybe we should be a startup program.”
Aug 29, 2025 positive
Strachman looks for 'hyperfluency' when evaluating young technical founders
“There's a trait that we look for that we call hyperfluency, and All the old Teal fellows had it. People like Dylan and Vitalik and Laura and now our new founders that we work with, some of which who have become fellows, people like Augustus from Rainmaker, Eth…”
Aug 29, 2025
Aug 29, 2025 neutral
Strachman: Thiel Fellowship team passed on Vitalik Buterin's Ether pre-sale
“Of course, there's Vitalik with Ethereum. He launched the first sale of ether during the fellowship. My colleague, Michael is one of the first people to put a Facebook post out about Ethereum and one of our biggest financial mistakes, but I don't really view i…”
Aug 29, 2025
Strachman: Thiel Fellowship launched before assembling a dedicated program team
“There was no team. I mean, there was Jonathan Cain, who was the president of the foundation, Jim O'Neill, who is, is now at HHS. He was on the board of the foundation Michael Gibson. That was his first day of work actually. And he wasn't expecting to be there …”
Aug 29, 2025 neutral
Strachman: Thiel Fellowship's '20 Under 20' concept was brainstormed on a flight
“Jim and Peter and Luke Nozick had flown back on a plane from New York. This was right before the Sarah Lacy interview the next morning, actually. And I think they sort of brainstormed this number of 20 people, and then the idea of, like, 20 under 20”