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Meet the kids who were paid to drop out

Meet the kids who were paid to drop out 04:10

If you're considering dropping out of school, here are five kids you should meet. These drop outs aren't stoners, slackers, or malcontents. These ambitious kids dropped out of colleges like Harvard and Princeton to pursue their own interests and dreams of entrepreneurship. And venture capitalist Peter Thiel, profiled by 60 Minutes this week, is paying them to do it!

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What do you think? Are these drop-outs getting short-changed by missing their formative college years? Or do you think they have a chance at the Zuckerberg-style success?

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