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
I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.
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.
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.
Ideally, I want us to be working on things where if we're not working on them, they won't happen; companies where if we don't fund them they will not receive funding.
I believe that people are too complacent about technology.
From my perspective, I think the question of how we build a better future is an extremely important overarching question, and I think it's become obscured from us because we no longer think it's possible to have a meaningful conversation about the future.
'Perfect competition' is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. So-called perfectly competitive markets achieve equilibrium when producer supply meets consumer demand.
I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.
I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.
Our society, the dominant culture doesn't like science. It doesn't like technology.
I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.
I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.
I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology.
I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.