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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is serial founder, educator, philanthropist, mentor, and venture capitalist, Danielle Strachman of the 1517 Fund. Her disruptive 20 million dollar venture fund in San Francisco offers 250 thousand dollar investments to teens and twenty something year old dropouts, makers, hackers, and scientists who embody conviction to go against the grain of societies one path for all through college. 1517 has proven this radical thesis with a portfolio of over 30 young founder startups, watching small 1k idea investments turn into Series B companies, and 17 year olds starting 5 person teams that scale to 400 employees and are making the best autonomous driving tech on the market.
In this episode she talks about her journey in entrepreneurship of starting a school, working with Peter Thiel on the Theil Fellowship, how young founders can follow their passion and express that authentically, and what she believes the future of education looks like.
https://www.evolvethe.world/episodes/danielle-strachman
This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is serial founder, educator, philanthropist, mentor, and venture capitalist, Danielle Strachman of the 1517 Fund. Her disruptive 20 million dollar venture fund in San Francisco offers 250 thousand dollar investments to teens and twenty something year old dropouts, makers, hackers, and scientists who embody conviction to go against the grain of societies one path for all through college. 1517 has proven this radical thesis with a portfolio of over 30 young founder startups, watching small 1k idea investments turn into Series B companies, and 17 year olds starting 5 person teams that scale to 400 employees and are making the best autonomous driving tech on the market.
In this episode she talks about her journey in entrepreneurship of starting a school, working with Peter Thiel on the Theil Fellowship, how young founders can follow their passion and express that authentically, and what she believes the future of education looks like.
Visit https://www.evolvethe.world/episodes/danielle-strachman
Join Brandon Stover, founder of Plato University, as he questions everything in life to challenge the way you think. Every change in the world starts with one person. Through narrated essays and intellectual interviews, this podcast will equip you with practical philosophies, new perspectives, and modern understandings of global issues so that change can start with you. It will help you to become a more critical thinker, find purpose in your life, and discover why you would want to take action in changing the world.
"They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do." - Steve Jobs