4/ @rabois on whether a student should go to college or work for a startup
1) See @paulg's advice in Students Guide to Startups 2) Shares that at PayPal, they urged students to drop out 3) Some of the best entrepreneurs have dropped out
1) Peter's uncanny ability to assess the ability of people 2) Peter and Max personally interviewed all final candidates until IPO 3) Peter and Max avoided MBAs like the plague (except @roelofbotha)
11/ @yishan on the one of the best pranks he ever pulled.
This one was on YouTube cofounder Jawed Karim while they were at PayPal
PayPal wasn't *all* intense competition – they had fun too
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"'Stay close to the money.' If you're not close to the stream of cash flow, if you're not directly responsible for winning the bread, and bringing in cash, you're expendable... Cash flow is a lifeblood."
2/ Highlights from @joe_philleo’s answer to “Why did Peter Thiel and Joe Lonsdale found Palantir?”
3/ The Straussian Moment, calls for a reevaluation of the post-Enlightenment worldview on the grounds that mainstream Western philosophy fails to understand and provide a response to the increasingly powerful and dangerous individuals driven by non-economic concerns