This is an article about the Thiel fellows for 2019. They were announced on July 10, 2019.
Do I Need to Go to University?
— Thiel Fellowship (@thielfellowship) June 1, 2020
Instead of asking βIs university good?β, ask βDo I have something more compelling to do?β by @ch402 https://t.co/hxX3JHwdqs
Thiel fellows embark on a 2 year program. They receive $100,000 and mentoring from Thiel's network.
There were 22 winners in all.
Their profiles and companies, from 1) the press release 2) Twitter 3) online, are below.
https://www.board.live/about.html
Fuzz everything https://t.co/5l8T44wh7v
— Andrei Serban (@ndreiserban) October 25, 2019
"The next level is making Fuzzing easy for software developers. And that helps even more in another order of magnitude, since there are way more of them than there are of us."
— Fuzzbuzz (@fuzzbuzz) August 8, 2019
If @dinodaizovi said it, it must be true - https://t.co/5mnAcFepurhttps://t.co/3bWwT7cEu5
Thank you for having me! https://t.co/JQSfLjWwd5
— Andrew Ninh (@AndrewNinh) May 17, 2020
In high school I knew I didn't want to go to college. The @thielfellowship was my way out.
— Claire Coder (@ClaireCoder) July 10, 2019
I started applying when I was 16.
I applied for 6 years straight.
It is an honor to be named a 2019 Thiel Fellow and represent @GoAuntFlow. Perseverance pays.https://t.co/riWH1S88f7
From menstrual products to masks... https://t.co/lUrkXmj5Aq#PPE #COVID pic.twitter.com/OscL1Bt4WN
— Aunt Flow (@GoAuntFlow) May 13, 2020
Working from the same office is going to become a stark advantage for early stage startups and yet a huge disadvantage for traditional corporates who remain inflexible.
— Davis Foster (@davistfoster) May 21, 2020
Watching the 2nd and 3rd-order effects of WFH-at-scale play out is going to be... something.
https://www.scytherobotics.com/
Alexa, play Dropout by @lilpumpπ€
— Emily Wang (@emilyzhihanwang) July 10, 2019
Beyond honored and hyped to be joining the @thielfellowship - looking forward to tearing up the startup world with some of the coolest young entrepreneurs I know! https://t.co/2y2dC1oIRr
Canairy is a platform to monitor changes in respiratory health for patents. The technology uses machine learning to better understand audio recordings of respiratory issues and can help with disease detection: https://t.co/LqivNsg4Yg pic.twitter.com/imqTa1PFfk
— NYC Media Lab (@nycmedialab) April 5, 2019
as promised,
— iddris sandu (@iddris_sandu) May 30, 2020
we've updated the digital mural for George Floyd with a new layout, poems/quotes , and art.
all artist's work that are featured in the mural have been credited.
link to experience it below.https://t.co/fMxMa9gbzh pic.twitter.com/rbR0W0B5u8
a revolution is coming.
— spatiaLABS (@spatial_labs) May 20, 2020
spatiaLABS AR Lens Debuts Fall 2020. pic.twitter.com/kuYkyj0FCu
Thanks, @HelloAlice I also try my best to blink and have more than one turtleneck :) #CES2020 pic.twitter.com/DvQsx2Gejy
— Ilayda Buyukdogan (@ilaydabdogan) January 12, 2020
This is what we are all about! https://t.co/oH7ZGa8YMO
— compocket (@compocket1) January 17, 2020
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-hillard-6130b7112/
π pic.twitter.com/ureTvE3tml
— Snackpass (@snackpass_) February 25, 2019
https://partners.snackpass.co/
The #coronavirus RNA sequence is ~30 kilobases, equal to ~7.5 kilobytes, which is also:
— Joanne Peng (@JoanneZPeng) March 19, 2020
- a standard 1500-word essay
- 5 short emails to the person youβve been avoiding
- 0.5 seconds of your favourite song in mp3 format
Biology is beautiful and scary.
I can not stress how amazing of a partner Alex is. https://t.co/bc0M0ZFDK7
— John A. Entwistle (@JAEntwistle) April 15, 2020
We are excited to announce our Series B led by @GGVCapital, with participation from @redpointvc and @uncorkcap π https://t.co/z7KjGCM4Bk
— Coder (@CoderHQ) April 15, 2020
19-year old inventor @KaiKloepfer @MIT freshman founded Biofire to develop smart firearms w/ fingerprint authentication @UPROXX #NewFronts pic.twitter.com/dDKAJiw0qS
— IAB (@iab) May 11, 2017
.@BiofireUSA is committed to building a reliable biometrically unlocked handgun. If you are interested in helping create the most advanced handgun in the world, join our user research group: https://t.co/Ro3rK7nEkg https://t.co/03wZ6Fit0u
— Biofire Technologies (@BiofireUSA) April 16, 2019
There are 2 kinds of empires:
— Matthew DiMarcantonio (@matdimar) April 25, 2020
One, is exploitative. This is the European empires of old.
The other, creates symbiotic relationships that all benefit from. This is the United States. #thestormbeforethecalm by @George_Friedman
https://www.linkedin.com/in/meljackdu/
Heβs 18 and walked away from a promising tech startup to tackle social impact. Now he may have an energy solution that could change the world! #ClimateAction #WeAreFamily pic.twitter.com/98F4HBRzrf
— We Are (Family Found)ation (@WeAreFamilyFdtn) June 1, 2018
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hex-labs/about/
https://windbornesystems.com/team
Real footage of what the product market fit journey looks like pic.twitter.com/kFE3lTsRvR
— Phillip (@ChaoPhillip) July 18, 2019
Doppler: When Being Scrappy Backfires #blog #dopplerhq
— Doppler (@DopplerHQ) May 14, 2020
When it pays dividends to do it right the first time. https://t.co/P7HeNovJE0 pic.twitter.com/YUayjCmP1g
From Full-Time Students to Full-Time Entrepreneurs https://t.co/cS9Cq7FPiq @OptivoltLabs (Techstars Class 134) π‘
— Techstars (@techstars) August 25, 2018
Today, we are thrilled to announce @GetSTORD's Series A funding round of $12.3 million led by @ilyaf at @kleinerperkins and joined by @SusaVentures @ThisIsDynamo and more.
— Sean Henry (@seanhenryatl) April 17, 2019
Thanks to our incredible customers, team, and investors for making this possible.https://t.co/IzY6cuTe1I
Typical supply chain integrations can take 4-6 months to implement, require the involvement of several different parties, and still be inflexible and at risk of breaking. Stord's integrative layer offers a much faster and longer-term solution. Read more: https://t.co/ugjKvG9SUw pic.twitter.com/zgiQdKCsmY
— STORD (@GetSTORD) June 4, 2020
This is a more technical walkthrough of how @HNS can improve the Internet, but if any non-technical people want me to walk them through it I'd be happy to https://t.co/HZB50RnStB
— Tieshun/ (@TieshunR) September 17, 2019
<<It's not too late to save the internet>>
— Namebase (@NamebaseHQ) January 6, 2020
Read our vision for how we want to create an open and free internet for anyone around the world β with true domain ownership. https://t.co/jvYppj5oXb#handshakeDNS #domainers #ICANN #internetfreedom #namers #DNS #internetaccess pic.twitter.com/5tRjCGztEZ
it's easy to obsess over deep tech as the only thing that moves the needle of progress.
— Will Manidis (@WillManidis) May 27, 2020
some oddly personal thoughts on @zerofasting's recent raise, and why maybe we shouldn't be so fast to write off consumer health tech. https://t.co/6GLlvweDgE
πΊ We just launched our blog! πΊ
— Cascade.Bio (@CascadeDotBio) April 8, 2019
Technical, product, and science dispatches from the https://t.co/gA41jrlvZl team: https://t.co/eS5xSRBR59
Closing note:
Tweets were chosen to highlight company accomplishments.
Most personal founder tweet were more topical and personal than this.
These tweets should only be taken as a selective sample.
The most typical/traditional SaaS startups are (click to visit link):
SnackPass also appears to be a breakout star, with an Andreesen Horowitz investment.
Others may be worthy of special recognition also, but were harder to categorize.