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The Genius of Peter Thiel in attacking the Ivy Leagues and high school dropouts shattering the college gospel

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It’s 1am. Sigil Wen is laying on his bed screaming. Screaming with joy. He just received his O-1 visa, a visa for immigrants with exceptional abilities to work in the U.S. Sigil is exceptional indeed. In high school, he started a company which he bootstrapped to $250k in revenue. Even though he was accepted at the University of Pennsylvania, he deferred his college decision to pivot into building another company which was funded by top Silicon Valley investors. However, a few years in, the company’s prospects were not looking great, and Sigil decided to shut it down. He took some time off to contemplate his next move. Contrary to what most people might predict, Sigil’s next move was not enrolling at Penn. Instead, Sigil boldly decided to skip college and joined the engineering team at Airchat, a Silicon Valley startup founded by Naval Ravikant, the founder of Angelist and one of the most well-regarded angel investors in Silicon Valley. In deciding to skip college, Sigil might be a rebe

Education The Genius of Peter Thiel in attacking the Ivy Leagues and high school dropouts shattering the college gospel Attacking the top 1% colleges has the potential to burst the college gospel Aastha JS Feb 07, 2024 12 2 Share College as gospel It’s 1am. Sigil Wen is laying on his bed screaming. Screaming with joy. He just received his O-1 visa, a visa for immigrants with exceptional abilities to work in the U.S. Sigil is exceptional indeed. In high school, he started a company which he bootstrapped to $250k in revenue. Even though he was accepted at the University of Pennsylvania, he defer

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