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20VC: Doug Leone, Bill Ackman, Bill Gurley and Orlando Bravo on "Does Price Matter"; When to Pay Up vs When to Stay Disciplined, The Biggest Lessons on Price Discipline from 8 of the World's Best Investors Feb 9, 2024 · 2 mentions

Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 7, 2024 · 1 mention

Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 12, 2024 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 17:39 Keith Rabois Well, yeah, so people have forgotten this, and you know, one thing that Peter Thiel is really disciplined about is he totally understands this, this, these dynamics really well, and is always pointing this out internally, sometimes… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:32 Harry Stebbings I mean, Peter Thiel often says about the decision not to do, I think the B of Facebook, or the A of Facebook being his most costly mistake. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:13:41 Keith Rabois I mentioned Peter recently that I think that was probably the most important thing he's done.

Peter Lacaillade: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers | E1096 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 18, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 5:03 Peter Lacaillade Founders Fund, Peter Thiel, um, there's just a lot of controversy, and I, I know that Social Network movie, like, inspired you a little bit, but, you know, that was around the same time. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:08 Peter Lacaillade In my core relationships, uh, Founders Fund's the most extreme, because Peter Thiel's very contrarian, um, and he wants to reset the mindset of his team. 2 times in the scene

Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 27, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 52:39 Keith Rabois You know, if you read Zero and One, Peter talks about both cultural secrets.
  • ▶ 57:33 Keith Rabois And there's lots of, if you've actually been a founder, if you've been a CEO like Peter has, if you've been a CEO and founder like Abin, if you've been a co-founder like Trey, you just know why.
  • ▶ 1:03:57 Keith Rabois Peter's been around for a while.

Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 20, 2023 · 1 mention

Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:43 Christian Lanng I mean, Peter Thiel's power laws works really well in consumer, but in enterprise, there's so many modes.

Jason Lemkin & Rick Zullo: How "Mark to Market" Corrupted Venture Capital | E1052 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 23, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:07 Jason Lemkin People's jaws drop, but Peter Thiel obviously was the angel in seed in Facebook.

Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 9, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:53 Jason Lemkin A lot of the best, the Peter Thiel's and others, despite some of their toxicity, you know, the point is that every month,

Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and Much More | E1002 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 17, 2023 · 1 mention

Amjad Masad: How I Founded Replit; Zuck's Famous Saying; Will TikTok be banned? | E987 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 11, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:55 Amjad Masad Somewhat of a, you know, Peter Tia calls it a secret, but some, somewhat of an insight into how the world works, or how the world should work, or where the world is headed, and so do you work to advance that.

Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 7, 2023 · 1 mention

William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 3, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:11 Harry Stebbings The proliferation of sales analytics tools and marketing automation tools and kind of incremental innovation that we see today that Peter Thiel chastises, I, I find almost it's a rarity to see that intellectual, uh, ambition of building…

Brian Singerman: How I Became a Partner at Founders Fund, Why We Put $400M into Anduril | 20VC #943 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 31, 2022 · 4 mentions

20VC: 13 of the Great Investing Minds on When to Pay Up vs When To Remain Disciplined and Walk Because the Price is too High: The Ultimate Guide to Price Sensitivity Aug 12, 2022 · 2 mentions

20VC: The Memo: Bill Gurley, Doug Leone, Keith Rabois; Investing Lessons from Prior Busts, How Their Investor Psychology Changed, What Can Be Applied To Today's Market Jun 29, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:54 Keith Rabois Both Peter and I figured out this market was crashing last summer, and we really tried to stop people from investing at ridiculous prices, but even a founder's fund, we weren't totally successful. 2 times in the scene

Ruchi Sanghvi: My Job Interview with Mark Zuckerberg; Deep Dive on DAOs | 20VC #895 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 10, 2022 · 1 mention

Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 30, 2022 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 4:28 Keith Rabois So you have to move from somewhat in Peter Thiele in terms,
  • ▶ 8:46 Keith Rabois So I don't think about it too much when the growth team, my colleagues, Brian Stigerman, Peter, Napoleon,
  • ▶ 9:37 Keith Rabois And the reason why was Peter and Brian and some extent, a few other partners were leading
  • ▶ 12:48 Keith Rabois Well, Peter Thiel taught me also in 2000 or 22 years ago that people systematically undervalued their time.
  • ▶ 20:48 Keith Rabois Uh, obviously unsuccessfully, because both Peter and I figured out this market was crashing last summer, and we really tried to stop people from investing at ridiculous prices, but even the founders thought we weren't totally successful. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:32 Harry Stebbings Would you agree with Teal that your biggest mistake is not concentrating capital into your winner, or is it actually not doing a net new?
  • ▶ 37:26 Keith Rabois Uh, identifying and hiring potential investors as, you know, we age, Peter, Brian, me, let's say the GPs in the venture fund.

20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor Sep 30, 2021 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 5:14 Keith Rabois And so fortunately I was working with Peter Thiel, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:38 Keith Rabois I mean, in fact, the way we started this company in 2003 was I walked into Peter Thiel's office and Peter said, start a company in residential real estate. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:45 Keith Rabois When Peter had this conversation with me in a conference room in 2003, I was like, we want a value proposition that will cut through the clutter.

20VC: NEA's Scott Sandell on SPACS and Why Liquidity is One of the Challenges of our Time, Why We Are At An Inflection Point For Secondaries & Why There Is Nothing To Suggest The Boom Will Not Continue Mar 11, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:34 Harry Stebbings Peter Thiel's not doing the Series B for Facebook in his quote about kind of always just pay up on that price.

20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven Feb 4, 2021 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 3:51 Justin Fishner-Wolfson When he was, you know, at Founders Fund with Peter, and that was sort of before Founders Fund became an institutional fund. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:14 Harry Stebbings What lessons did you specifically learn from Peter Thiel? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:04 Harry Stebbings So if that's kind of the takeaways from working with Peter, you know, I know you're also a big kind of poker player.
  • ▶ 9:54 Harry Stebbings So jumping on this, I have to ask you, you mentioned kind of the centrality of person that you took from Peter and then kind of thinking about what makes the bar, so to speak, in terms of investment.
  • ▶ 13:49 Justin Fishner-Wolfson And so, like, just as a very simple example, which I think really informed my view on this, you know, look back at the Facebook investment that Peter did, right? 2 times in the scene

20VC: Hims Founder Andrew Dudum on Hims Going Public, The Reasoning and Benefits of SPACs, The Biggest Misconceptions of Successful Company Building & Wall St's Changing Perceptions Towards Growth and Profitability Jan 21, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings As for Andrew, alongside his role at Hims, he's also co-founder of Atomic, a company builder and venture fund all in one, backed by the likes of Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen.

20VC: Alexis Ohanian on Why Now Was The Right Time To Start Seven Seven Six, The 2 Very Distinct Types of Deals In Venture & The Unbundling of Social in 2021 Nov 19, 2020 · 1 mention

20VC: Sequoia's Roelof Botha on His Biggest Lessons Working Alongside Don Valentine, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone, Leading Sequoia's US Business and What Sequoia Do To Retain Their Edge at the Top & The Crucible Moments That Define Startup Success Oct 26, 2020 · 1 mention

20VC: What Is Founder Narrative Fit and How to Detect and Invest In It, How To Avoid Consensus Thinking When Investing, Price Sensititivity; When To Pay Up vs Stay Disciplined & From New York Times To General Catalyst; Why Venture and Journalism are Not S Oct 1, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:03 Katherine Boyle I was fortunate enough to get accepted and moved out to California, and I quickly became somewhat bored by the business school experience, so I just started reading as many books as I could about technology and Silicon Valley and… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:06 Katherine Boyle It's a book that I really love by Ross Douthat called The Decadent Society, and it came out during quarantine, and it's really about stagnation, being a robust, affluent society with no meaning, and how you get out of that stagnation, and…

20VC: Why Few Firms Are Doing True Early Stage Investing Today, Why Founders Should Spend Time with Analysts When Raising & The Rise of Pre-Empting Rounds and How To Know When To Engage vs Wait with Anna Khan, General Partner @ CRV Aug 14, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:40 Harry Stebbings It's just more competitive than ever, and I especially feel this as a younger partner, like, how do you think about going against the heavyweights of industry, your Marc Andreessen's, your Peter Thiel's, when they come out to play?

20VC: Steve Jurvetson on 20 Years of Friendship with Elon Musk, How To Analyse Market Timing, Why Venture Does Not Scale & Why He Has Never Sold A Share in Any Company He Holds Aug 3, 2020 · 1 mention

20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance Jul 7, 2020 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 3:40 Joe Lonsdale I was at PayPal, and then I was at Peter Thiel's family office, and at the age of 19 or 20, was driving around to meet some of the companies he'd invested in. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:58 Joe Lonsdale So I did macro with Peter before I've gotten to know a lot of macro investors like Stan Druckenmiller and others who I really admire.
  • ▶ 9:18 Joe Lonsdale So having founders around, being founders, whether we're talking about Vinod Khosla or Peter Thiel or Marc Andreessen or Reid Hoffman or the list goes on and on.

20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards Jun 15, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:22 David Sacks Mamoon, and then Founders Fund, I had access to Peter Thiel and Luke Nozick, and we really had a great harmonious board at Yammer, and I don't know that I can single anybody out, but I would say that it was a great board and very easy to…

20VC: 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy: Deconstructing Economies of Scale, How To Assess True Market Size, Assessing Risk vs Uncertainty, What "Brand As Power" Really Means with Hamilton Helmer, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Offi May 18, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings It's also one of the favorites of Daniel Eck at Spotify, Peter Thiel, and Reed Hastings at Netflix.

20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta Jan 17, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 49:02 unnamed speaker Yeah, the two pieces of literature that have had the biggest impact on how I think about company building and investing are Zero to One by Peter Thiel, which took away a lot of the conventional wisdom I'd accumulated for college in the… 3 times in the scene

20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively Oct 25, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings To date, Reddit has raised over five hundred and fifty million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the world of venture, including Sequoia Capital, Mark Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Sam Altman, Josh Kushner, Alfred…

20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check May 3, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:40 Frederic Kerrest Yeah, I read Peter Thiel's Zero to One a couple years ago, which I think is a very good book, and I recommend people will read. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs Apr 29, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:22 Sarah Smith Cuban or Keith or Boyd, Peter Thiel, these are the loudest voices sometimes in the sort of Twitter audio universe making investments.

20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals Apr 1, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:19 Garry Tan Those are the ones that seem to perform the best, and that's no surprise to people who follow Peter Thiel and, you know, his book Zero to One.

20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage Mar 25, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:32 Alex Clayton Recent book, Peter Thiel's Zero to One, summarizes what investors and founders should think about

20VC: Brex Founder Henrique Dubugras on Why Being Mission Driven Is Not The Only Way To Build A Massive Business, Why You Should Not Associate Fundraising with The Cash Needs of Your Business & Why You Don't Have To Follow Startup Theory When It Comes To Feb 15, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings ...to a 1.1 billion dollar valuation, having raised over a hundred and eighty million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the business, including Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Elad Gill, DST, Y Combinator, and IVP, just to name a…

20VC: How To Build Credibility with Investors, Employees and Customers, How To Determine When A Stretch VP is A Stretch Too Far and The Right Way For Founders To Think About Dilution with Amol Deshpande, Founder & CEO @ Farmers Business Network Sep 21, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:09 Harry Stebbings Often we hear kind of the peace teal school of thought that you start in tiny markets, your Facebook's of the world, and you need to have that iterative approach to the huge vision.

20VC: Why Founders Must Use VCs as a Barometer, How to Make Distributed Teams Work Successfully & The Biggest Mistake People Make Early In Their Career with Dylan Serota, Founder @ Terminal Aug 17, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings And to the intro, and I'm thrilled to welcome Dylan Sirota, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Terminal, the startup that helps you create world-class technical teams through remote operations as a service, and they recently raised a…

20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward May 25, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:19 Harry Stebbings You know, VCs always require insanely large markets, and then you have Peace Teal who, kind of, obsesses over that niche market.

20VC: Hims' Andrew Dudum on The Scaling Playbook of The Fastest Growing Mens Wellness Brand, How To Be Truly Innovative In Today's World of Online Marketing & Raising at a $200m Valuation within Year 1 May 11, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Andrew's also co-founder and general partner at Atomic, a venture builder backed by Peter Thiel, Mark Andreessen, and many of the world's best investors.

20VC: If You Do Not Like VCs, You Have Not Worked With a Good One, How Andreesen Have Added The Same Level of Value As A Co-Founder, Why Market Is The First Thing To Consider When Angel Investing & Why Series A Is A Hiring Decision with Roger Dickey, Foun Sep 29, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:48 Roger Dickey What I've heard more recently, maybe, maybe five years ago around that time was, I think, I think this might've been Peter Thiel or somebody who said, who said that the market is actually the first thing that they look at.

20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital Sep 13, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:45 Harry Stebbings But a few years ago, Peter Thiel said, we expected flying cars, and instead we got a 140 characters.

20VC: Khosla's Keith Rabois on How To Create Sustainability Behind Growth, How To Assess The Potential Of Individuals & Teams & The Biggest Takeaways from LinkedIn, Paypal & Square May 15, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:06 Keith Rabois General Archipeter's views, which is you really do need people to focus on about one thing.

20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures Mar 8, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:52 Lee Hower The other half was called Confinity, which was started by Max Lovechin and Peter Thiel, backed by the old Nokia, now Blu-ray Ventures.
  • ▶ 5:12 Lee Hower But if you look at our senior leaders at PayPal, you know, Peter Thiel, who became CEO after Elon, Elon himself, who was CEO for a while at the combined company, David Sachs, who was my first boss, because I started off as a product…

20VC: Why I Do Not Regret Taking 'Peter Thiel Money', What Is The Difference Between Leadership & Management & What Conversations Are For The Founding Team Only with Tim Junio, Founder & CEO @ Qadium Feb 3, 2017 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 17:28 Harry Stebbings Now, we mentioned your early investors there, and controversial ones, uh, which is a little left of field, so excuse me for this one, and it's one of them is Peter Thiel, uh, and I've spoken to a couple of, uh, Peace Thiel's investments,… 10 times in the scene

20VC: eShares' Henry Ward on Why Portfolio Theory Is Wrong? Why Investors Will Never Take Market Risk & Why You have To Have A Line of Sight To A $Bn Outcome Jan 6, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:11 Henry Ward The flip side, and the way that we think about it, is very, very much the Peter Thiel model, which is, we like having steps because we have concrete
  • ▶ 9:40 Henry Ward You know, my, my favorite analogy is Peter Thiel and Facebook.

20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage? Dec 14, 2016 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 3:48 Garry Tan Powerful and influential software companies, though none of us knew it at the time, so my college, basically Fraternity Brothers, started a company that now is quite big, but at the time, we didn't really know what it would be called… 4 times in the scene

20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves Nov 25, 2016 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings Balaji is the founder and CEO at 21 & Co, the company that believes for Bitcoin to succeed, we need to build the full stack infrastructure for Bitcoin, from silicon to hardware, and they have backing from some of the best in the world,…
  • ▶ 4:00 Balaji Srinivasan And I started a genomics company, uh, called Council, which was funded by, uh, Peter Thiel and Founders Fund and David Drummond and whatnot.
  • ▶ 29:13 Balaji Srinivasan Example, Peter Thiel investing in the young Mark Zuckerberg put 500,000 dollars into Zuckerberg. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures Nov 2, 2016 · 1 mention

20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit' Oct 10, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings As a result, Mike's been named on the Forbes Midas list since 2010, and was also named one of eight rising stars by Fortune Magazine, alongside the likes of Peter Thiel, Josh Koppelman, and Roloff Botha.

20VC: Why Valuation Is A Stupid Concept, VC Is Ripe For Disruption & Not All LPs Are Made Equal with Michael Skok, Founding Partner @ Underscore VC Sep 21, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:13 Harry Stebbings Uh, the film about obviously Facebook's rise, and I saw Peace Teal invest in Facebook with Clarion Capital, and I thought that looks like a really sweet job.

20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing Aug 15, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:22 Dave McClure Ended up working for Founders Fund with Peter Thiel and Sean Parker for about a year and a half.
  • ▶ 19:32 Dave McClure I think Peter and Max and Reid Hoffman and a bunch of others, it obviously had lots and lots of success, but the lessons that we probably learned at PayPal were probably learned in the trenches with a lot of other people on the team.

20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight Jul 20, 2016 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 4:51 Alex Bangash Now, if you look at, you know, just pick, just pick the Forbes Midas list, for instance, and you will see that four out of the top 10 VCs, Steve Anderson, Chris Saka, Josh Copeland, Peter Thiel,
  • ▶ 23:10 Alex Bangash Um, and then, uh, I, I think of all the, the, the folks, I think very few people can match the intellectual firepower and, and the, and the, and literally the, the contrarian thinking of Peter Thiel. 3 times in the scene

20VC: How Startups Should React To Today's Funding Environment & Why Big Markets Are More Forgiving with Jenny Lefcourt, Partner @ Freestyle.vc May 18, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:39 Harry Stebbings That does, that does really intrigue me because, you know, for, for many listeners of the show who might have read Pisteel's, uh, zero to one, he very much focuses on, on narrow niche markets at the beginning. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market May 4, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:29 Harry Stebbings But then you have the kind of Peter Thiel side, who's saying start very small, start at Harvard, you know, Facebook, start at Harvard.

20VC: Why Machine Intelligence Will Eat The World Of Software with Roy Bahat, Head of Bloomberg Beta Apr 13, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:38 Roy Bahat It's funny, you know, Peter Thiel has this whole thing, of course, about picking markets in which there's no competition, but Facebook, you know, his most successful single investment ever, started in the year when I think there were 26…

20 VC 089: Eric Paley @ Founder Collective on Outliers, Inspirational Founders and Pro Rata Nov 18, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:52 Eric Paley David, much like Peter Thiel was doing at that time, was writing big checks.

20 VC 082: 500 Startups Week: Growth Hacking 101: How To 10x Your Conversion with Matt Lerner, Head of Distro Dojo London Oct 26, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:45 Matt Lerner It wasn't like old school Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, but it was pretty early on.

FF 015: Y COMBINATOR WEEK: Eric Glyman, Co-Founder & CEO @ Paribus Oct 2, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:40 Eric Glyman Peter, Peter Thiel was a highlight, um, uh, to, uh, I, I would say different founders and people who'd gone, gone the long way, um, whether they were, you know, um, three years in, five years in, 10 years into the startups, a lot of great…

20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock Aug 19, 2015 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 26:53 Nick Beim Um, I think if Peter Thiel wrote a blog, I'd love it as well. 3 times in the scene

James Altucher: Ideas, Investing and Entrepreneurs Jun 4, 2015 · 1 mention

20 VC 033: The Pros and Cons of Venture Capital, Atomico and Entrepreneurship with Chris Dark, President International @ C2FO May 4, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:05 Chris Dark I think it's a good thing to get, but look, and Peter Thiel is one of our investors, and I know, obviously, very famously, he's, you know, got his fund for people that are, the college dropouts.

20 VC 027: Greg Rogers on Techstars, Mentors and The Potential for Fintech Apr 13, 2015 · 1 mention

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