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The Thiel Fellowship has generated over $550 billion in value creation from its alumni.
Vitalik Buterin launched the first pre-sale of Ether for Ethereum while he was a participant in the Thiel Fellowship.
Former Thiel Fellow Chris Olah was part of the co-founding team of Anthropic.
Peter Thiel was the anchor investor in 1517 Fund's first fund.
A significant portion of the value created by Thiel Fellowship alumni is attributed to Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum.
The Thiel Fellowship has a 5.9% hit rate among its participants.
Ritesh Agrawal, founder of Oyo Rooms, built the second-largest hotel chain in the world.
Thiel Fellow Ritesh Agrawal initially started building an Airbnb clone for the Indian market before pivoting to create Oyo Rooms.
As a Thiel Fellow, Laura Deming identified research funding as the primary bottleneck in the longevity field and pivoted to start a venture capital fund.
Laura Deming has successfully raised two venture capital funds focused on investing in the longevity space and is now working on a cryopreservation company.
After his Thiel Fellowship, machine learning researcher Chris Olah went on to work at Google Brain and OpenAI.
The 1517 Fund seeks a founder trait they call "alchemy," which is the ability to be exceptionally resourceful and achieve significant results with limited capital.