Educating Young Entrepreneurs by Paying Students to Take a Break from College

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Risk taking is an important part of developing innovative ideas.  And Peter Thiel, President of the venture capital firm Clarium Capital, believes that some young people are forced to be risk averse when they take on enormous debt to attend college.  So he's encouraging some of them to drop out of school for a couple of years, and paying them to take on entrepreneurial pursuits:

Watch the full interview from Big Think here


Posted 12-03-2010 7:38 AM by Graham Griffith
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