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Thiel Foundation Announces Next Thiel Fellow Class

New class includes 20 entrepreneurs in biotech, AI, energy, and more

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Thiel Foundation today named 20 individuals as the next class of Thiel Fellows. The Fellowship program, which launched in 2011, encourages talented young people with big ideas to start companies instead of attending college.

“In a world where conformity rules, these young founders are setting out to reimagine every industry they touch,” said Brian Rowen, President of The Thiel Foundation. “No goal is too ambitious; this year’s class is innovating in fields as varied as energy production, genetic testing, AI, and agriculture.”

During the two-year Fellowship program, fellows receive $100,000 and mentorship from The Thiel Foundation’s network of technology founders, investors, and scientists. The only requirement is that fellows pause their college enrollment and focus exclusively on building their technology or company.

“Young founders with radical projects know universities will only hold them back. More than a third of this year’s applicants never applied to college and instead are following their own path,” said Alex Handy, Director of the Thiel Fellowship. “Members of this year’s class are not preoccupied with chasing trends, whether in Silicon Valley or on TikTok. They are acting on concrete plans to improve the world around them.”

The new class joins 251 previous fellows. Alumni include founders of Embark, Ethereum, Figma, Luminar, OYO, and DoNotPay. Since the Fellowship’s inception, fellows have founded companies collectively worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

About the New Class

Akshaya Dinesh: San Francisco, CA

Alex Singer: Montreal, Quebec

Ethan Thornton: Boston, MA

Hugo Chrost: San Francisco, CA // Warsaw, Poland

Ian Michael Brock: Chicago, IL

Jake Adler: Miami, FL

John Guibas: Palo Alto, CA

John McElhone: Los Angeles, CA

Kai Micah Mills: Salt Lake City, UT

Kesava Kirupa Dinakaran: San Francisco, CA

Kian Sadeghi: Brooklyn, NY

Markie Wagner: Los Angeles, CA

Michael Ioffe: Portland, OR // New York, NY

Nik Shevchenko: San Francisco, CA

Quinn Favret: Austin, TX // New York, NY

Reiss Jones: Manchester, England

Samarth Athreya: Burlington, Ontario // San Francisco, CA

Sara Du: New York, NY

Sonny Mo: San Francisco, CA

Victor Cardenas: San Francisco, CA

About The Thiel Foundation

The Thiel Foundation supports science, technology, and long-term thinking about the future. For more information, see www.thielfoundation.org.

To apply for the Thiel Fellowship, please click here.

Thiel Fellows are currently hiring! To see our job board, please click here.

Contacts

fellowship@torchcommunications.com

Fonte BUSINESS WIRE

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