The Silicon Valley billionaire and higher-education critic who offered young entrepreneurs money to leave college is returning to Stanford University, his alma mater, to teach a course of his own.
Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder whose “20 Under 20” fellowship last year awarded a group of budding entrepreneurs $100,000 each to drop out and develop innovative companies, will teach a class called “Computer Science 183: Startup” at the elite university this spring, according to Reuters. Mr. Thiel submitted his course proposal last year, after approaching Stanford professor-turned-commercial-educator Sebastian Thrun about teaching at the university. The 250-student course is already oversubscribed, according to Reuters.
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