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PayPal co-founder says workers with Asperger’s more effective than workers with MBA
Okay, okay, Peter Thiel is a libertarian dipstick. But he may have a point here.
http://www.autismdailynewscast.com/paypal-co-founder-says-workers-with-aspergers-more-effective-than-workers-with-mba/17109/snapshot/
In a conference hosted by Reaching Out MBA held Oct. 4, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, pointed out to his audience why workers with Asperger’s syndrome are more likely to reach their full potential in the business world compared to workers who have gained an MBA.
Thiel made a number of thought-provoking statements during the promotional conference of his book, “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future“. In his book, Thiel suggests that people without an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often walk out on ideas, that might at first seem strange, which becomes their weakness. Thiel perceives that successful ideas are often the unconventional, strange ones.
The PayPal co-founder also emphasized that the workers with Asperger’s are often behind the most successful companies as they are not intimidated by the off-beat ideas that they often come up with.
In “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future“, Thiel also argued that competitiveness hinders one’s chance to come up with unique and unparalleled ideas, as competition pressures every competitor to come up with an idea that’s almost entirely the same in concept as their rivals.
Thiel made a number of thought-provoking statements during the promotional conference of his book, “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future“. In his book, Thiel suggests that people without an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often walk out on ideas, that might at first seem strange, which becomes their weakness. Thiel perceives that successful ideas are often the unconventional, strange ones.
The PayPal co-founder also emphasized that the workers with Asperger’s are often behind the most successful companies as they are not intimidated by the off-beat ideas that they often come up with.
In “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future“, Thiel also argued that competitiveness hinders one’s chance to come up with unique and unparalleled ideas, as competition pressures every competitor to come up with an idea that’s almost entirely the same in concept as their rivals.
Hopefully this meme will catch on, and I can finally have a life!
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so you may well be right.
I, just like Bush*, have a Yale undergraduate degree. But far from being Pretzeldent, I'm stuck in a cube in a nonprofit pulling down south of $40K in the off-the-charts Bay Area. 
