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
People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.
I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.
Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.
I spend an awful lot of time just thinking about what is going on in the world and talking to people about that. It's probably one of my default social activities, just getting dinners with friends.
As an undergraduate at Stanford, I started 'The Stanford Review,' which ended up being very engaged in the hot debates of the time: campus speech codes, questions about diversity on campus, all sorts of debates like that.
Google makes so much money that it’s now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined.
I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.
I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we're competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it's likely that both of us will become better, but it's also quite possible we'll lose sight of what's truly valuable.
Our society, the dominant culture doesn't like science. It doesn't like technology.
I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.
I think it's a problem that we don't have more companies like Facebook. It shouldn't be the only company that's doing this well.
My only claim is that not all talented people should go to college and not all talented people should do the exact same thing.
I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.
Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.