Joe Lonsdale
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Bam.
That's cool, man.
University of Austin.
We're crushing it.
The third class is joining right now.
Oh, shit.
Peter Thiel has already hired away a few of our people from the first two classes and a bunch of them online.
You can go look.
They're doing all sorts of cool companies, all sorts of cool internships with Boring Company and Palantir and all sorts of different groups we partner with.
Listen, these are amazing young people.
To have a really top score, Sean, and then to turn down an Ivy League or another top school and go to a new university, you have to be an entrepreneur.
You have to have an opinion.
You have to want...
to be part of, like, the... You know, frankly, it's the country elite.
It's the new elite.
It's the people who don't want to be part of the old kind of broken Harvard-Yale kind of loser mess, like CFR, you know, guys who predict everything wrong about what's going to happen in the Middle East and are just, like, part of the old kind of corrupt old guard.
Like, they want to be part of the builders.
They want to be part of the actual competent people who think for themselves and don't just echo what you're supposed to say.
I think it's going really well.
That's awesome, man.