{"id":18912,"date":"2010-11-16T08:28:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T12:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=18912"},"modified":"2010-11-16T08:28:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T12:28:33","slug":"peter-thiel-facebook%e2%80%99s-first-big-backer-thinks-the-future-of-global-innovation-may-hinge-on-more-entrepreneurial-college-drop-outs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2010\/peter-thiel-facebook%e2%80%99s-first-big-backer-thinks-the-future-of-global-innovation-may-hinge-on-more-entrepreneurial-college-drop-outs.html","title":{"rendered":"Peter Thiel, Facebook\u2019s first big backer, thinks the future of global innovation may hinge on more entrepreneurial college drop-outs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston.com &#8211; I had a chance to spend some time on the phone yesterday with Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder, venture capitalist, hedge fund manager \u2014 and early Facebook investor.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s speaking at MIT this coming Tuesday night, at an event organized by the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/technology\/innoeco\/2010\/11\/peter_thiel_facebooks_first_bi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston.com &#8211; I had a chance to spend some time on the phone yesterday with Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder, venture capitalist, hedge fund manager \u2014 and early Facebook investor. He\u2019s speaking at MIT this coming Tuesday night, at an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18914,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18912\/revisions\/18914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}