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- Peter Thiel plans to give 20 more young people $100,000 not to go to college.
- Thiel started the fellowship in 2010, encouraging students to skip school and start companies instead.
- The effort has attracted criticism from education leaders.
Don't stay in school, kids.
That's the message billionaire Peter Thiel is sending as he extends a fellowship program that offers $100,000 to students willing to skip college and develop a company instead.
Some in the latest cohort of applicants plan to launch projects related to the buzzy industries of AI and cryptocurrency.