Business leaders are butting heads over whether the college degree is dead, arguing over its usefulness and overall value. Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel is meanwhile luring young entrepreneurs with $200,000 grants to ditch the “corrupt institution” of higher education and “build new things.” But Lloyd Blankfein, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, is hitting back with his own two cents for budding workers.
“I strongly disagree with the technology investor Peter Thiel,” Blankfein wrote in an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Streetwise, shared with Vanity Fair. “To succeed in a career, you have to know the technical minutiae of your field, of course. But you also need to be a complete person—the kind of person other people want to engage with.”
