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CM 010: Thiel Fellow Jihad Kawas on Young Entrepreneurs

November 30, 2015 Curious Minds podcast 00:28:08 1 Comment

Jihad Kawas started his company, Saily, when he was 16 years old growing up in Lebanon. Now, two years later, after a recent public launch, his app has over 140,000 U.S. users and is gaining over 1,000 new users daily. Jihad is a 2015 Thiel Fellow who never attended college. Along the way, he was…

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CM 009: Thiel Fellow Charlie Stigler on College and Career

November 30, 2015 Curious Minds podcast 00:30:03 1 Comment

At the age of 16, Charlie Stigler built SelfControl, an app designed to block out online distractions. It has been downloaded by millions. Encouraged by that success, two years later, Charlie founded a successful ed tech company, Zaption, which rethinks the use of video for learning. He did both before the ink was dry on…

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