I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.
From Peter Thiel
Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.
Ideally, I want us to be working on things where if we're not working on them, they won't happen; companies where if we don't fund them they will not receive funding.
My only claim is that not all talented people should go to college and not all talented people should do the exact same thing.
The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that.
People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.
Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.
I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.
If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.
From my perspective, I think the question of how we build a better future is an extremely important overarching question, and I think it's become obscured from us because we no longer think it's possible to have a meaningful conversation about the future.
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