Permission to Think For Yourself: Inside the Thiel Fellowship’s Early Years

Inside look at how Danielle Strachman built the Thiel Fellowship's selection process—using unconventional methods like thumbs-up-or-down votes and multi-dimensional evaluation to find high-agency young people, and how the program evolved from an anti-credential to an institution whose acceptance matters as a credential itself.

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