Peter Thiel, the billionaire cofounder of PayPal and an early Facebook investor, has a complicated relationship with higher education. On one hand, he graduated from Stanford University with a ...

Peter Thiel’s fellowship is offering young entrepreneurs $200,000 to skip or leave college and build their own billion-dollar startups. The program launched in 2011 has since generated more than $100 ...

The Meritocracy Fellowship program at Palantir, a controversial tech company owned by Peter Thiel, offers an internship in place of traditional higher education. Students see both advantages and ...

Digital health is on the brain of some emerging entrepreneurs this year. Last week the Thiel Foundation announced its latest winners of its entrepreneurial technology fellowship, and among them were ...

Thiel Foundation has announced that Harry Gandhi, cofounder and CEO of digital health startup Medella Health will be a 2015 Thiel Fellow. Medella Health is developing glucose-sensing contact lenses.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Just after the Thiel Fellowship program announced its ...

Design software maker Figma will debut with shares indicated to open at more than triple their initial public offering (IPO) price, with the deal oversubscribed. Figma CEO Dylan Field co-founded the ...

The new “final frontier” for billionaires like Bill Ackman, Laurene Powell Jobs and Peter Thiel is not outer space but helping education embrace private sector solutions and artificial intelligence.

Billionaire Peter Thiel has gained a name as one of Silicon Valley's most controversial figures. The PayPal cofounder went on to have a successful career in venture capital. Known as a connector, he ...

“Don’t go to college.” Four words you probably never heard your mother or father say to you growing up. But that’s exactly what famed entrepreneur Peter Thiel is saying, and he’s upping the ante. “Don ...