
Paper Belt on Fire
How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University
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Narrated by:
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Alex Boyles
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Michael Gibson
Paper Belt on Fire is the unlikely account of how two outsiders with no experience in finance—a charter school principal and defrocked philosopher—start a venture capital fund to short the higher education bubble. Against the contempt of the education establishment, they discover, mentor, and back the leading lights in the next generation of dropout innovators and in the end make their investors millions.
Can such a madcap strategy help renew American creativity? Who would do such a thing?
This story is the behind-the-scenes romp of one team that threw educational authorities into a panic. It fuses real-life personal drama with history, science, and philosophy to show how higher education and other institutions must evolve to meet the dire challenges of tomorrow.
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Exposure to bigger ideas
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This book is a history of the Thiel Fellowship, Thiel Capital and 1517 fund, and Silicon Valley contrarianism.
It’s an inside look into a group of one of the most profitable investors.
This book is also a commentary on the modern university, startup culture, and the American Dream as well as the narratives around them. It sheds light on what talent, innovation, and progress really is.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, this book is a call to action to work on problems worth solving. It’s a call to shake off what we’ve learned. It’s a call for founders, students, and investors, for all of us, to work on important problems now.
Learning more from this book than from Harvard classes
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Brilliant and inspiring!
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Recommended for any future entrepreneur, banker, college student, and founder.
Bravo.
An inspiring entrepreneurial story wrapped in a futuristic mantra of societal change
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Paper Belt on Fire provides an inside seat to over a decade of truly contrarian efforts that have produced incredible results. The stories are inspiring and if we are fortunate, will inspire many to boldly go where we as a society need more people to venture.
Well worth the time for anyone who is curious about hedge funds, venture capital, Silicon Valley, being bold, and the biggest challenges facing us today - or who just enjoys interesting people and stories well told.
A business book that is so much more than most
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This is a most interesting book.
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Better than any self help book.
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Michael Gibson is our generation’s William Blake
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Take that diploma and shove it
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Very information dense—Michael’s writing style is wandering and thoughtful. It touched a lot of ground over a condensed span while preserving poetic flare.
Of course, the content and messaging is awesome as well… bombastic and thought provoking. How do you change the world without asking for permission? By doing simply doing it.
I’ve ordered a physical copy to re read at a slower pace.
Beautifully Written, Thought Provoking Content
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