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
There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.
If the whole U.S. was like Silicon Valley, we'd be in good shape. But now, the entire U.S. is not driven by technology, is not driven by innovation.
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.
Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.
We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.
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.
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 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.
Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'
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.
People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.