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Where “imagine if” gets to work. We've helped 500+ companies (like @NotionHQ, @Roblox, @Uber, @Square) take a straighter path from idea to product-market fit.

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First Round @firstround Sep 16

The mechanics of sales may be automated away, but that was never the hard part.

We want to find and train the next generation of sellers who excel at the uniquely human craft of sales (and aggressively use AI for all the rest), so we’re launching Sales Combine.

Spend two days in SF for FREE training with extremely experienced sales leaders, and then we’ll introduce you directly to companies like @NotionHQ, @fal, @togethercompute, @p0, @reductoai, @Gumloop, @clay, & many others that are hiring new sellers.

Apply by 10/3: firstround.com/sales-combine

First Round @firstround Oct 16

An unfiltered look inside the Thiel Fellowship with @DStrachman: review.firstround.com/inside-thiel-f…

Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 Verified account @DStrachman Oct 14

Sixteen years ago, when @William_Blake and I were on the founding team of the Thiel Fellowship, we called it an older young person’s homeschool program.

In a very Thiel-ian way, we built something that fostered independent thinking by giving young people permission to explore what interested them in an environment that trusted them to make decisions and execute on their work.

@firstround’s editorial team wrote a really thoughtful piece about those first years of the fellowship. It also covers my journey — going from school founder to handing out $100K grants to teenagers.

So wonderful to chronicle that very special time that has become the genesis of 1517 💗 (Link in comments)
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First Round @firstround Oct 15

How’d staff in the early years of the Thiel Fellowship identify the people who’d go on to found Ethereum, Figma, Anthropic and more?

Danielle Strachman — founding member and former program director of the Thiel Fellowship — told us what they were looking for:

Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 Verified account @DStrachman Oct 14

Sixteen years ago, when @William_Blake and I were on the founding team of the Thiel Fellowship, we called it an older young person’s homeschool program.

In a very Thiel-ian way, we built something that fostered independent thinking by giving young people permission to explore what interested them in an environment that trusted them to make decisions and execute on their work.

@firstround’s editorial team wrote a really thoughtful piece about those first years of the fellowship. It also covers my journey — going from school founder to handing out $100K grants to teenagers.

So wonderful to chronicle that very special time that has become the genesis of 1517 💗 (Link in comments)
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First Round @firstround Oct 14

“We were very much building the airplane on the way. Up or down. Whichever way we were going.”

Our editorial team took an in-depth look at the Thiel Fellowship's early years:

Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 Verified account @DStrachman Oct 14

Sixteen years ago, when @William_Blake and I were on the founding team of the Thiel Fellowship, we called it an older young person’s homeschool program.

In a very Thiel-ian way, we built something that fostered independent thinking by giving young people permission to explore what interested them in an environment that trusted them to make decisions and execute on their work.

@firstround’s editorial team wrote a really thoughtful piece about those first years of the fellowship. It also covers my journey — going from school founder to handing out $100K grants to teenagers.

So wonderful to chronicle that very special time that has become the genesis of 1517 💗 (Link in comments)
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First Round @firstround Oct 13

"Our WiFi password used to be 'vacuum2020.' We were gonna ship robots in 2020, and it didn't happen."

Inside the nine years of hard work and failed prototypes that went into making @maticrobots:

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