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Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:08:05 David Rosenthal The Summit, the Singularity Summit, organized by Ray Kurzweil, a future Google employee, I think, chief futurist, noted futurist, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Peter Thiel.
- ▶ 1:08:31 Ben Gilbert But we probably shouldn't just walk in guns blazing and say, Peter, can we pitch you?
- ▶ 1:08:48 David Rosenthal The talk is going to be our pitch to Peter.
- ▶ 1:08:51 David Rosenthal And Founders Fund, Peter has just started Founders Fund at this point, obviously.
- ▶ 1:09:07 David Rosenthal They architected the presentation at the summit to be a pitch directly to Peter.
- ▶ 1:09:43 David Rosenthal That Venn diagram sure sounds a lot like Peter Thiel.
- ▶ 1:09:52 David Rosenthal Peter is not there.
- ▶ 1:09:53 David Rosenthal Turns out Peter wasn't actually that involved in the conference.
- ▶ 1:10:10 David Rosenthal They find out that Peter is hosting an after party that night at his house in San Francisco.
- ▶ 1:10:19 David Rosenthal Demis seeks out Peter, and he's like, Demis is very, very, very smart, as anybody who's ever listened to him talk would immediately know.
- ▶ 1:10:26 David Rosenthal He's like, rather than just pitching Peter head on,
- ▶ 1:10:33 David Rosenthal He starts talking to Peter about chess, because he knows, as everybody does, that Peter Thiel loves chess, and Demis had been the second highest ranked player in the world as a teenager in the under-fourteen category.
- ▶ 1:10:48 David Rosenthal The man knows his chess moves, so Peter's like, hmm, I like you.
- ▶ 1:11:02 David Rosenthal And Peter says, oh, okay.
- ▶ 1:11:26 David Rosenthal And through Peter and Founders Fund, they get introduced.
- ▶ 1:16:24 Ben Gilbert Peter Thiel.
- ▶ 1:16:29 David Rosenthal Peter Thiel.
- ▶ 1:16:30 Ben Gilbert Was it, do you know for sure that it was from Peter?
- ▶ 1:36:45 Ben Gilbert And that came from, famously, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, who I think most people don't realize was part of that initial tranche, and Peter Thiel.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:25:20 David Rosenthal Why don't you meet Peter Thiel?
- ▶ 1:25:25 David Rosenthal And Peter, yes, indeed, was just in the process of starting what would become Founders Fund.
- ▶ 1:25:34 David Rosenthal Was such a radical idea when Peter started it.
- ▶ 1:26:02 David Rosenthal And of course, PayPal has its own crazy history where you can understand why Peter would arrive at this conclusion, but he really was, like, maybe the only person in Silicon Valley that hit that Venn diagram that I talked about a minute…
- ▶ 1:26:48 Ben Gilbert That's a crazy counterfactual thinking about if Elon had invested in Facebook instead of Peter Thiel.
- ▶ 1:27:23 David Rosenthal So, they take the idea to Peter.
- ▶ 1:27:35 David Rosenthal Talk to Peter, evaluate this from an investing standpoint.
- ▶ 1:27:39 David Rosenthal They strike a deal that Peter's gonna lead a round of 500,000 dollars.
- ▶ 1:27:50 David Rosenthal Peter's gonna do the rest at a five million dollar pre-money valuation.
- ▶ 1:29:37 David Rosenthal And certainly at this point, the combination of Sean, Peter, Reed, Mark Pincus, all
- ▶ 1:31:03 David Rosenthal Which Peter, partially on the back of this Facebook investment, has now set up and raised officially, and like we said, Sean goes on to find and fund and really help nurture Spotify through his role at Founders Fund.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 21:05 David Senra I was just re-watching, uh, Peter Thiel's talk at, uh, Y Combin area.
- ▶ 2:05:04 David Senra Well, this idea also influenced me is Zero to One, Peter Thiel's book.
- ▶ 2:05:08 David Senra It's like, you know, he says that.
- ▶ 2:34:51 David Senra But, like, the whole thing, like, when Peter Thiel says this in his book, Paul Graham says it, it's just, like, startups don't have the advantage, right, of you're not going to outspend Microsoft or Netflix on, so you've got to find…
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 28:24 Jason Calacanis Of the PayPal mafia, you would say Elon, Reed, Hoffman, Peter Thiel.
- ▶ 29:13 Jason Calacanis I'm trying to think if, like, would, is there a founder, I wonder, I don't know this, but is there a founder who's a young founder who would say, I would never take money from Peter Thiel's venture firm?
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) · Acquired
- ▶ 9:20 Hamilton Helmer And Peter Diehl gets at it in his book with his X and Y axis.
Standard Oil Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 2:29:07 David Rosenthal I feel like if Peter Thiel were here as a guest with us, he would be vehemently arguing the opposite, uh, that, uh, uh, you know, it's, it's the zero to ones.