9 Great Entrepreneurs Who Turned University Professors
Bangalore: “Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art, it is a practice” is a very famous quote by Peter Drucker. Entrepreneurs learn from their experiences and gain more mental strength from their failures than successes; hence it becomes necessary to develop student entrepreneurs to face daring situations and this can be developed only by expert entrepreneurs and professors. The brilliantly compiled list by entrepreneur.com below has entrepreneurs who have turned professors to incubate and support youngsters who aspire to become entrepreneurs.
Peter Thiel
Occupation: Financial backer in Facebook
Former CEO and Co-founder of PayPal
Net Worth: Increase $1.5 billion
Classes: Computer Science 183: Startups
Professor at: Stanford University
Peter Thiel is a German born American entrepreneur, hedge fund manager and a renowned venture capitalist who is now a professor in Stanford University. Ironically, he is the same person who had encouraged students to drop out from college by giving them funds to encourage budding entrepreneurial talents. He began his teaching venture with the topic ‘Computer Science 183: Startups’ and his first class was filled to a capacity of 250 in just few minutes from its commencement. He also says that if he does his job perfectly then it must be the last class a student has to attend ever.