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Strachman: Early media backlash targeted individual Thiel Fellows directly
“Reporters targeted specific fellows, people like Dale Stevens.”
Strachman: The American gap year did not exist before the Thiel Fellowship
“The American gap year did not exist when the fellowship started. It was not a thing. No one talked about taking gap years here, and now it's super common.”
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…”
Strachman: Thiel Fellowship originally set up SF startup house Mission Control
“Mission Control is a startup house that's been around now for probably about 13 years. And we originally set up that house for fellows, and then it's gotten sort of passed on to friends of friends.”
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 …”