• Young Entrepreneurs will be given the opportunity to pursue their dreams of revolutionizing the world with technology investor Peter Thiel’s $100,000 Thiel Fellowship with one condition: they must skip their plans for college.
• CNBC’s special, “20 Under 20: Transforming Tomorrow” follows young innovators competing for the fellowship as they pitch their ideas to investors such as Thiel himself and the founding president of Facebook.
• Along with the accumulation of student debt, Thiel believes that colleges are not employing students at a satisfactory rate post-graduation, asserting that it’s best for students to pursue their dreams immediately, not after four years at a university.

From the article:

Some students may strongly consider dropping out of college if someone provided financial resources to pursue their dreams of innovating the world. That's what technology investor Peter Thiel is banking on in a new CNBC special called "20 Under 20: Transforming Tomorrow," a two-part series that follows 20 young innovators under the age of 20 as they compete for a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship position. …