Peter Thiel
22 statements across 14 episodes · 6 bullish · 5 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Marc Andreessen · said 108 times in 45 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Marc Andreessen (25), Erik Torenberg (16), Dan Primack (15), Balaji Srinivasan (9), Chris Dixon (7), Garry Tan (4), Max Levchin (3), Sonal Chokshi (2)
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2026 15 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
- Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- Jake Paul on Going From YouTube to Boxing to Investing | a16z ft. Anti Fund
- Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS
- Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- Goldman Sachs Chairman on Why Finance Adopts AI Differently | a16z
- Why Claude Feels Different (And What That Means for AI) | The a16z Show
- How Truemed Is Incentivizing Americans to Invest in Prevention
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 28 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
- Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
- Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
- The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2022 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2019 50 mentions in 18 episodes 3 per episode
- a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars
- a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- a16z Podcast | Secrets, Power Laws, and Technology – The Ideas of “Zero to One”
- a16z Podcast | Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
- a16z Podcast | The Case Against Education, From Signaling to Rainbow's End
- a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
- a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2017 5 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Peter Thiel, oldest first
Jul 15, 2017 neutral
Andreessen: Physical-world engineering advances much slower than software
“I think it's a fair critique, and I think this is the part of Peter Thiel's critique that I agree with. It's a fair critique that there are many fields that are not moving as fast as they could. And in particular fields, you know, applications of computer scie…”
Jan 2, 2019
Thiel: Easy success or early failure teaches founders the wrong lessons
“Most of the time people are either in companies that fail, and then the lesson you learn is that it's impossible to build a great company, and so the next time around you try for something that's less ambitious, and so And then you certainly will not build a g…”
Jan 2, 2019
Thiel: Workplace conflict arises when people compete to do the exact same job
“Conflict happens when different people want to do the same thing. And one of the challenges in, it's not when people want different things, it's when people want the same thing. And in a, and so the challenge you have as a boss is to try to have people do diff…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Thiel: The financial bubble is in government bonds, not tech
“My candidate for where the bubble is today is it's the government printing money, it's the government bonds it's minus two percent real interest rates, and so the things that are bubble-like are the things that are most like government bonds. So that's corpora…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Thiel: US may see nuclear power renaissance as baby boomers lose power
“I'm hopeful it's a bit of a generational issue where the anti-nuclear people Are these boomers, these baby boomers who came of age in the seventies and once they lose grip on power in the next decade or so we may be able to have a nuclear renaissance in this c…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Thiel: Tech market is not a bubble because public IPO participation is low
“I tend to think the bubbles always required the public to be involved in a very big way, and there were these psychosocial phenomena on some level, and this, the public is not really involved because the companies are not going public until extremely late in t…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen recommends 'Lean Startup', 'Hard Thing About Hard Things', 'Zero to One'
“The Lean Startup book by Eric Reese is very, very good and that book should be read front to back. Second is, ah, Ben Horowitz's book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, I can't recommend too highly. And the third is Peter Thiel just wrote a book called Zero to…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Andreessen: Technological progress in atoms lags behind progress in bits
“It's a fair critique that there are many fields that are not moving as fast as they could. And in particular fields, you know, applications of computer science or other fields of engineering that intersect more in the world of atoms as opposed to the world of …”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: First-time founders should raise seed money before Series A
“If you're a first-time founder, first-time founder, it's almost always better to start with angels or with the early seed investors. It's, again, contrary to myth and archetype, it's very hard for the first-time founder to raise, raise a straight A round. It's…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Arthur: Industries naturally trend toward domination by one or two players
“I think that in the long, long run, things do tend to get dominated by only one or two players, even in the standard businesses. And the reason that's not completely and utterly true all the time is that there are new products getting launched all the time in …”
Jul 16, 2024 negative
Aug 1, 2025
Aug 1, 2025
Balaji Srinivasan: Thiel, Graham, and Page would be jurists and professors earlier
“Peter Thiel would have been probably, they'd be more than 20 years earlier, probably would have been a Supreme Court jurist, right? Probably would have been like, you know, chief judge of the Supreme Court or something. Paul Graham would have been a professor.…”
Jun 22, 2026 negative
Aug 11, 2026 negative
Tan: Turning down early Palantir offer was a $2B to $4B mistake
“Peter said, I'm so sure this is the right thing for you. Like, here's a check for 70 grand. That was how much I made at Microsoft at the time. And I said, thank you very much, Mr. Thiel, but I might get promoted to level 60 this year. Which I did, but I think …”
Sep 3, 2026
Levchin: Seeing peers' human vulnerabilities inspired PayPal alumni to pursue massive ideas
“So if you know kind of the true base version of who we all are, as you watch one of these people go for something really big, like Elon Taking humanity to Mars, which is extraordinary. And yet, you know, he's a human being. Like, I've seen him sweaty and tired…”