Joshua Browder

Yeah, so it was my dream to go to Stanford from the UK and three and a half years in, I took the Thiel Fellowship where he gives you 100,000 to drop out or take a two-year break from college.

And for me, it really changed everything because even at a place like Stanford, a lot of my classmates wanted to go work at Google and Facebook.

Right.

And just having 19 other young people who wanted to build huge companies and also previous classes because they'd have retreats.

Yeah.

Actually, last week we had our first ever Teal Fellow go public, Dylan Field with Figma.

Actually, there have been previous companies that went public, but that was a huge one.

I think a $60 billion IPO.

Damn.

And I'll give you a quick statistic on the Teal Fellowship.

So there are 350 Teal Fellows and 35 of them have built a company valued at more than $1 billion.

Wow.

So if you're a Teal fellow, you have a one in 10 chance of building a billion dollar company, which is more than MIT, more than Y Combinator, which is a big accelerator.

And it beats every other program.

And it's such a special place.

And it's a nonprofit.

So they actually give you a grant so that he doesn't take any equity.

It's very generous.

So I applied in 2016 when I was a sophomore in Stanford and I got rejected.

And then I applied again in 2018, 2019, and they finally let me in.