Why CEOs Think University Degrees are Becoming Irrelevant

What Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Jobs have to say. The first 1,000 people to use my link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/newsthink12211 and you can also support the channel. This video is sponsored by Skillshare.

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Elon Musk interview at the SATELLITE Conference & Exhibition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPV8X...

Peter Thiel interview with Eric Metaxas for Socrates in the City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO_00...

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Sources:
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Source: College Board, Annual Survey of Colleges; NCES, IPEDS Fall Enrollment data.
See page 12: https://research.collegeboard.org/pdf...
2:30 source: College Board, Annual Survey of Colleges; NCES, IPEDS Fall 2020 Enrollment data and IPEDS 2020 Institutional Characteristics data
See page 10: https://research.collegeboard.org/pdf...
2:36 The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/education...
2:03 OECD survey released in 2019, based on U.S. data from 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cot_Y... Technology component is located @ 18:30 while math skills are located @ 14:57
4:03 Photo of Mark Zuckerberg: Anthony Quintano from Honolulu, HI, United States, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
Photo of Bill Gates: Lukasz Kobus/European Commission, Attribution, via Wikimedia CommonsPhoto of Daniel Ek: Magnus Höij, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
4:37 Tesla Gigafactory in Austin, Texas courtesy of Jeff Roberts https://www.youtube.com/user/peterdog15