'Skip the Debt': A $200 Billion AI Company Launches a Fellowship for High School Grads to Avoid the 'Indoctrination' of College

'Skip the Debt': A $200 Billion AI Company Launches a Fellowship for High School Grads to Avoid the 'Indoctrination' of College

Palantir Technologies launched a "Meritocracy Fellowship" this week and took aim at what the company says is "the shortcomings of university admissions."

Palantir launches controversial new workplace initiative

This company seems to be drawing inspiration from its founder.

Palantir's 'Meritocracy Fellowship' Urges High School Grads to Skip College's 'Indoctrination' and Debt

Stanford law school graduate Peter Thiel later co-founded Facebook, PayPal, and Palantir. But in 2010 Thiel also created the Thiel Fellowship, which annually gives 20 to 30 people under the age of 23 $100,000 "to encourage students to not stick around college." (College students must drop out in o...