Peter Thiel, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Peter Thiel comes up
20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 24:41 Clinton Foy But, but I also love some VC books like Peter Thiel's Zero to One.
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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.