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Colleges aren’t scalable either. Ask Harvard to hand out more degrees and you’ll see part of the value of a degree is signaling something you have that others don’t.

It’s a zero sum game: the more people have Harvard degrees, the less valuable that degree becomes.

Recall the Thiel fellowship targets people who would have gone on to a top university. So neither paths are scalable.




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