Peter Andreas Thiel (born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, hedge fund manager, and social critic. Thiel co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Elon Musk (see PayPal Mafia) and served...
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Creative monopolies aren’t just good for the rest of society; they’re powerful engines for making it better. Peter Thiel
Creative monopolies aren’t just good for the rest of society; they’re powerful engines for making it better.
Network effects can be powerful, but you’ll never reap them unless your product is valuable to its very first users when the network is necessarily small. Peter Thiel
Network effects can be powerful, but you’ll never reap them unless your product is valuable to its very first users when the network is necessarily small.
No company has a culture, every company is a culture. Peter Thiel
No company has a culture, every company is a culture.
There’s no reason why the future should happen only at Stanford, or in college, or in Silicon Valley. Peter Thiel
There’s no reason why the future should happen only at Stanford, or in college, or in Silicon Valley.
Today our challenge is to both imagine and create the new technologies that can make the 21st century more peaceful and prosperous than the 20th. Peter Thiel
Today our challenge is to both imagine and create the new technologies that can make the 21st century more peaceful and prosperous than the 20th.
Your company needs to sell more than its product. You must also sell your company to employees and investors. Peter Thiel
Your company needs to sell more than its product. You must also sell your company to employees and investors.
Technology is miraculous because it allows us to do more with less, ratcheting up our fundamental capabilities to a higher level… by creating new technologies, we rewrite the plan of the world. Peter Thiel
Technology is miraculous because it allows us to do more with less, ratcheting up our fundamental capabilities to a higher level… by creating new technologies, we rewrite the plan of the world.
Finance epitomizes indefinite thinking because it’s the only way to make money when you have no idea how to create wealth. Peter Thiel
Finance epitomizes indefinite thinking because it’s the only way to make money when you have no idea how to create wealth.
Monopoly is the condition of every successful business. Peter Thiel
Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.
We teach every young person the same subjects in mostly the same ways, irrespective of individual talents and preferences. Peter Thiel
We teach every young person the same subjects in mostly the same ways, irrespective of individual talents and preferences.
Simply stated, the value of a business today is the sum of all the money it will make in the future. Peter Thiel
Simply stated, the value of a business today is the sum of all the money it will make in the future.
The best projects are likely to be overlooked, not trumpeted by a crowd; the best problems to work on are often the ones nobody else even tries to solve. Peter Thiel
The best projects are likely to be overlooked, not trumpeted by a crowd; the best problems to work on are often the ones nobody else even tries to solve.