# Thiel Fellow
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The thiel fellowship (originally named 20 under 20) is a fellowship created by billionaire Peter Thiel through the Thiel Foundation. The fellowship is intended for students under the age of 23 and offers them a total of $100,000 over two years, as well as guidance and other resources, to drop out of school and pursue other work, which could involve scientific research, creating a startup, or working on a social movement. Selection for the fellowship is through a competitive annual process, with about 20–25 fellows selected annually.
Orchid’s Noor Siddiqui: Rigging The Genetic Lottery To Create Healthier ‘Superbabies’
If you could fix the genetic lottery to ensure your baby was born healthy, would you?
For entrepreneur Noor Siddiqui, there's no question. Ever since her mother started to lose her vision as the result of a genetic condition, she’s dreamed of solving the problem through better genetic testing.
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Episode 14: Turning 911 Innovation into Real-World Impact at Scale -Michael Chime, CEO of Prepared
Episode 14: Turning 911 Innovation into Real-World Impact at Scale
What does it actually take to modernize 911, the system most Americans assume is already cutting-edge, but isn't? In this episode of Beyond the Launch, host Ivan Whitaker sits down with Michael Chime, co-founder and CEO of Prepared…
Nik Shevchenko: Selling Two Startups, Becoming a Thiel Fellow & Building the Future of AI
Nik Shevchenko joins LegendsNLeaders to share his unconventional journey from mining cryptocurrency as a teenager to becoming a serial entrepreneur, Thiel Fellow, and founder working at the forefront of AI and wearable technology.
Nik started his first company at 16 and sold it by 18. At 19, he joi…
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
Tara Seshan leads product for Codex and ChatGPT Work at OpenAI (alongside previous podcast guest Andrew Ambrosino, who’s her engineering manager). Before OpenAI, Tara spent over six years at Stripe, where she joined as one of the first five product managers. She went on to lead product for Watershe…
Why Upstart Is Building a Bank From Scratch Instead of Buying One With CEO Paul Gu
Paul Gu dropped out of Yale in 2010 to join the first class of Thiel Fellows, spent time at the quant fund D.E. Shaw, and then co-founded Upstart on a simple premise: the techniques Wall Street uses to price corporate risk should work at least as well on consumer credit. Fourteen years later, he to…
The $3B Company Trying to Beat Amazon Prime
Stord is on track to cross $1 billion in annual revenue this year after 10Xing the business over the last four years.
The goal: level the playing field with Amazon Prime for the other two-thirds of commerce on the internet.
I sat down with Stord Founder & CEO Sean Henry in Cap Ferrat to talk about …
No Co-Founder, a Year in Stealth and $20M to Replace Slack | Sara Du, Ando
Sara Du co-founded Alloy Automation at 19 and ran it for five and a half years. Her second company, Ando, she's building solo: team messaging designed from scratch for humans and AI agents working together, freshly out of stealth with a $20M seed from Accel, Index Ventures, and Emergence Capital. A…
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?
Shawn Ryan Show has donated to the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund. Donate & Get Involved - https://cftexashillcountry.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=4201 Augustus Doricko is the founder and CEO of Rainmaker Technology Corp., a company focused on cloud seeding and weather modificatio…
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather
Augustus Doricko is the founder and CEO of Rainmaker, a next generation cloud seeding company. He is a UC Berkeley dropout, Thiel Fellow, and member of the El Segundo hard tech scene. Rainmaker uses weather resistant drones to increase precipitation and novel radar hardware to measure how much ma…
Frontier AI Models Now Fit on Your MacBook | Sigil Wen
Sigil Wen, founder of Conway Research and Thiel Fellow, discusses launching Underdog—a private, local AI running directly on personal devices—and how autonomous agents will transform internet commerce by rendering traditional advertising obsolete. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev.…
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