Peter Thiel “Drop Out of School Project”: Did It Fail?

This article is from 2013... that's why it's missing Ethereum et al.

This article seems to be done without any significant research there is OYO Rooms, Ethreum and many more founded by Thiel foundation alumni which are unicorns

A hotel reservation service is certainly world changing.

So is an online bookstore.

So if a Thiel fellow had started an online bookstore, you’d think that was a big deal?

Parent is talking about Amazon, which started as an online bookstore.

Ethereum is currently worth >$83B

The 50 biggest YCombinator companies are worth $100B [0], so I'd argue the project does really good.

[0]: http://blog.ycombinator.com/2017-yc-annual-letter/

I think it looks like were going to be able to get the author on this thread. So we can get an understanding as to why.

Really? According to my research Vitalik, the founder of Ethereum, was accepted into that program. Arguably Ethereum is the only 10B+ product - worldwide! - founded in the last 4 years.

I'd be curious to know why the writer left that out. I'm going to invite him to come join this thread in conversation.