Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.

2% of the company. Thiel Fellowship
On September 29 2010 Thiel said he had created a new fellowship called the Thiel Fellowship which will award $100000 to 20 people under 20 years old in order to spur them to quit college and create their own ventures. Bush's National Security Advisor) Condoleezza Rice.

He was the first outside investor in Facebook the popular social-networking site with a 10. Thiel was ranked #293 on the Forbes 400 in 2011 with a net worth of $1.