Isn’t Peter Thiel the guy who was paying kids to skip college?

Coincidentally I have someone who reports to me that attended Howard - the only HBCU in the org. And everyone else is MIT, Duke, Cal, Michigan, etc. The Howard guy outperformed everyone last year except one guy from Duke. The guy from MIT may be able to solve more classes of differential equations than him, but he absolutely does a better job of understanding customers and articulating the problem and goals. Note, they are all quite good though.

The skillset for academia intersects greatly with “the real world”, but the way it’s measured in academia gives the wrong impression. SAT scores may measure intellectual horsepower, but few problems are handled with that. Show me the person who asks clarifying questions and works hard — and I’ll take them even if they get a B+.

I don't understand at all what he's saying. He seems to be contradicting himself within that interview, blaming people for not going to Harvard while also saying "Harvard used to mean something, and now it’s churning out robots". But more than that, he seems to be contradicting his Thiel Fellowship thing, which was intended to prove that higher education as a whole isn't that valuable.

Isn't this the same person who literally pays kids not to go to University?

Hey, it feels to be true to yourself. Let it all out Peter. Tell us what you truly believe.

You don't need to cloak it with with silly ideas like your sovereign island any longer; the PC days are over.

This is extra funny coming from the guy who spent the past decade+ denigrating education and who sponsored the current VP, who marketed as a "hillbilly," and the president who is, visibly to all of us, a stable genius.

  He added that the Democratic Party’s younger leadership lacks the meritocratic credentials of older figures like Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

  “Elite credentialing has collapsed on the left,” he said. 

Unlike the exemplars of meritocracy in the current administration?