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Come to ICC 103 TONIGHT at 5:30pm to have your questions answered by experts in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation! #careeradvice
We talked to students in the @msbgu for some advice on recruiting and the startup job-market! Here's what they said: bit.ly/1CBTIr7
If you are thinking of launching a startup, this event is for you! The Careers in Innovation Panel is Tomorrow Night - ICC 103 at 5:30pm.
"The most important decision in the history of Facebook was a 6 hour discussion convincing us not to sell Facebook for a billion dollars"
"It turned out that people didn't want to do networking as virtual cats and dogs," Thiel on the failure of SocialNet + emergence of LinkedIn
"If people want to sit back and watch the movie of the future unfold and eat popcorn, then there will be no innovation at all." #ThielAtGU
"3 takeaways: You want to do something you're good at, you're passionate about, and that other people are not doing." #ThielAtGU
"Germany is this pessimistic and comfortable sort of place," Thiel talking about his upbringing #ThielAtGU
"California and Germany have these extreme opposites: California is this optimistic and really really desperate place" #ThielAtGU
"I don't think everyone should be an entrepreneur or drop out of college, I think people should ask a lot more of why am I being educated?"
"I don't believe in an alternative to education, I think the problem is the way it has tracked people in all these sort of uniform ways."
"If you were the president of Georgetown, and you wanted to get all the students and alumni to fire you, just say let's triple enrollment"
"There is always a risk of groupthink. There is an advantage that Silicon Valley has as a network: networks have disadvantages too."