Marmer, who's launching a business consulting startup with two friends, decided to apply for the fellowship as soon as he heard about it on Facebook. (...) Marmer has informed his parents that, whether he wins a Thiel Fellowship or not, he is dropping out of Stanford.
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A month after meeting Thiel at the Palace of Fine Arts, Marmer has quit school and moved out of his parents' home in San Francisco. He's living in the pool house behind a friend's place in Atherton, near Palo Alto, where he and his partners are working on a startup devoted to developing a "management science" for boosting the success rate of other startups. "Have you seen The Social Network? The house looks a little like that," Marmer says over the phone in early January. "A few people who have come by have actually said, 'Oh, it's just like Facebook.' "
Doesn't it strike anyone as weird that Marmer is an undergraduate, and is dropping out of school to do a 'business consulting startup' as well as developing a 'management science' to 'help other startups succeed'?
That coupled with the fact that he's moved into a 'pool house', and is enamored with the similarity of his situation with the early Facebook, worries me.
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Marmer, who's launching a business consulting startup with two friends, decided to apply for the fellowship as soon as he heard about it on Facebook. (...) Marmer has informed his parents that, whether he wins a Thiel Fellowship or not, he is dropping out of Stanford.
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A month after meeting Thiel at the Palace of Fine Arts, Marmer has quit school and moved out of his parents' home in San Francisco. He's living in the pool house behind a friend's place in Atherton, near Palo Alto, where he and his partners are working on a startup devoted to developing a "management science" for boosting the success rate of other startups. "Have you seen The Social Network? The house looks a little like that," Marmer says over the phone in early January. "A few people who have come by have actually said, 'Oh, it's just like Facebook.' "
Doesn't it strike anyone as weird that Marmer is an undergraduate, and is dropping out of school to do a 'business consulting startup' as well as developing a 'management science' to 'help other startups succeed'?
That coupled with the fact that he's moved into a 'pool house', and is enamored with the similarity of his situation with the early Facebook, worries me.