On: Thiel's Unicorn Success Is Awkward for Colleges

[gostsamo]

Flowers who are given special attention and fertilizers perform better than the garden variety. Surprising and awkward for all industrial farmers.

[prepend → gostsamo]

I think this is comparing different types of attention and fertilizers.

It’s not comparing Thiel to orphans. It’s comparing Thiel to various other elite institutions and their formulas for making great people.

[spacecadet → prepend]

"elite" lol, 99.999% of these elite people paid to win... and I have worked with plenty to realize that same amount squander it.

Its scales because humans.

[Fissionary → gostsamo]

Doesn't seem to work out that well for Softbank, so YMMV.

[polygamous_bat → Fissionary]

What do you mean? It worked great for Adam Neumann! /s

It’s always funny and surprising when people say “It’s a dog eat dog world!” and sets up a dog eat dog world and then get surprised when a dog eats another dog.

[mcphage → Fissionary]

Well, then Thiel is definitely more effective than SoftBank, but that still doesn’t say much about colleges.

[spacecadet → gostsamo]

Best comment. Made me snort.