We have worked with Austin since he was a 17 year old applying to the Thiel Fellowship and we started 1517 to support him and other dropout founders. We didn’t know if his ideas were crazy or crazy awesome. Now the world knows. https://t.co/mlCwS90E6M
Founder of Luminar, the EV technology company merging today with Gores Metropoulos SPAC at $3bn valuation, founded by a Thiel Fellow (so he was paid by Thiel to drop out of college). Thiel also investing in the deal
https://t.co/XwZlQfbIkb
@DStrachman, Co-Founder of @1517fund, shared How to Achieve Your Vision:
Key Learning: “You have to work backwards from your goal and find the small day-to-day actions that will get you there.”
Watch her whole feature:
https://t.co/Mk3ECblT0K