Jenny Kleeman
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443 appearances
8 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 15 Jul
Jenny Kleeman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's always a bit of spin.
She got in trouble once for missing a biology class because she was preparing for one of these fairs where she'd win lots of money.
And her teacher was angry with her for missing the class.
And she asked her teacher, well, what scientific papers have you published?
I've had a paper published.
She went to university when she was very young and she dropped out.
at age 18 because she won a fellowship offered by the very famous billionaire Peter Thiel.
It's a Thiel Fellowship.
At the time, it was a $100,000 fellowship.
Now it's a quarter of a million dollars.
He gives these fellowships to people aged under 22 who agree to drop out of university and build something.
And it comes from this
I guess it's an idea that smart people are wasting their time at university.
They could do better if they went into the real world.
And she says, from speaking to her, that was clearly the formative experience for her.
And it's given her this very, she says, useful irreverence, this sense of not wanting to go along with the orthodoxy, challenging things.
She was on...
forbes's list of 30 most interesting under individuals under 30 when she was 22 she set up lots of companies and uh and so yes she is as she calls herself a serial entrepreneur and proud of it okay so she is clearly a very bright spark she's very ambitious but nothing demonstrates the level of her ambition i think than the last 18 months does it
Well, I have to say that since the beginning of 2025, it's been quite a ride for Kathy Tye.
And then she moved to Beijing, or at least she tried to move to Beijing because she fell in love with He Zhengkui, who is probably one of the most notorious scientists in the world.
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