Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel
Peter Andreas Thielis a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and hedge fund manager. Thiel co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Elon Musk and served as its CEO. He also co-founded Palantir, of which he is chairman. He was the first outside investor in Facebook, the popular social-networking site, with a 10.2% stake acquired in 2004 for $500,000, and sits on the company's board of directors...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth11 October 1967
CountryUnited States of America
How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.
People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.
I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology.
I had a good experience in college, but I don't think interdisciplinary education is something that's stressed very much at all. It's generally considered to be something of a bad idea.
The model of the U.S. economy is that we are the country that does new things.
I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.
There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.
In Silicon Valley, I point out that many of the more successful entrepreneurs seem to be suffering from a mild form of Asperger's where it's like you're missing the imitation, socialization gene.
My only claim is that not all talented people should go to college and not all talented people should do the exact same thing.
Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.
I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.
Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.
People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.
Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.