They're like all a bunch of ugly nerds
That's an insult I'd expect from a sixth grade girl, not an economics PhD.
Peter Thiel on Stanford Econ
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I have three friends from my grad cohort at Top 5 departments.
- for one of them, it was obvious from day 1 that this was where he should end up.
- another was very, very smart, but wanted to do theory. He did end up in a top five place, which I believe is well deserved (his referees clearly feel the same), but his next best offer was well outside.
- the third is someone who literally no one - neither faculty nor student - would have ended up where he did. He worked harder than anyone, but you wouldn’t have guessed where he ended up from his first year grades.
Finally, the first person in this same cohort with a publication in Econometrica is a literal UKAP.
In other words: Thiel is full of s**t. Being rich by getting lucky with PayPal does not make him smart. I have no idea why he is taken seriously anywhere.
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I hat/e/ thiel. He's a sna/k/e. His Thiel fellowship thing never worked. Total nonsense. Turns out you actually do need to know stuff. His palantir business is a way to privatize the CIA. He's pro turnip because he wants to make money with palantir and push for a plan to outsource a lot of the CIA functions to private companies and Turnip is an anti-establishment candidate pushing conspiracy theor/ies and other cra.z.y stuff. Never trust Thiel. He's a sna/a/ke, a r/a/t, etc.
His little lapdog Weinstein pretends to be a bernie bro, but he isn't. He's a con/m/an who also tryiing to make people less trustworthy of CIA, FBI, media, etc. When people don't trust the institutions, there is a vacuum and guys like Thiel want to profit from it.
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I have three friends from my grad cohort at Top 5 departments.
- for one of them, it was obvious from day 1 that this was where he should end up.
- another was very, very smart, but wanted to do theory. He did end up in a top five place, which I believe is well deserved (his referees clearly feel the same), but his next best offer was well outside.
- the third is someone who literally no one - neither faculty nor student - would have ended up where he did. He worked harder than anyone, but you wouldn’t have guessed where he ended up from his first year grades.
Finally, the first person in this same cohort with a publication in Econometrica is a literal UKAP.
In other words: Thiel is full of s**t. Being rich by getting lucky with PayPal does not make him smart. I have no idea why he is taken seriously anywhere.So where did the third guy end up? W.t.f terrible writing
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I never heard of these people. I am looking at their wikipedia pages. They all fizzled out except maybe for the indian guy who's running an overvalued unprofitable startup.
Adam Munich
Boyan Slat
Benjamin Yu
Cathy Tie
Dale J. Stephens
Eden Full
James Proud
Taylor Wilson
Vitalik Buterin
Ritesh Agarwal
Lucy Guo -
You’ve never heard of Ethereum?
I never heard of these people. I am looking at their wikipedia pages. They all fizzled out except maybe for the indian guy who's running an overvalued unprofitable startup.
Adam Munich
Boyan Slat
Benjamin Yu
Cathy Tie
Dale J. Stephens
Eden Full
James Proud
Taylor Wilson
Vitalik Buterin
Ritesh Agarwal
Lucy Guo