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born 1967 United States
Peter Andreas Thiel (born 11 October 1967) is a German-American billionaire entrepreneur, hedge fund manager, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and author who is known for his work on mass surveillance and automated weapons. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook.
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I don't think the intellectual battle is ever fully over because I don't think history is over.
I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible...
I think there is a 20% chance that Bitcoin will become a huge, worldwide success.
We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.
It’s good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.
Because the vast reaches of outer space represent a limitless frontier, they also represent a limitless possibility for escape from world politics
The Education of a Libertarian (2009)
Confirm [the age of Apple is over]. We know what a smartphone looks like and does. It's not the fault of Tim Cook, but it's not an area where there will be any more innovation.
I no longer believe that politics encompasses all possible futures of our world.
I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.
... the phenomenon of serial entrepreneurship would seem to call into question our tendency to explain success as the product of chance.
Zero to One (2014)
Gay marriage can’t be a partisan issue because as long as there are partisan issues or cultural issues in this country, you’ll have trench warfare like on the western front in World War I. You’ll have lots of carnage and no progress.
My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more. ... In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.
Zero to One (2014)
[The media] never takes [Trump] seriously, but it always takes him literally. I think a lot of the voters who vote for Trump take Trump seriously, but not literally.
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