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
When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.
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.
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.
I did not want to write just another business book.
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.
I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.
Great investments may look crazy but really may not be.
How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.
College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.
I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.
I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.