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Peter Thiel

20 statements across 11 episodes · 1 bullish · 8 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jun 20, 2020 by David Sacks · said 288 times in 110 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

On the record as a speaker too: Peter Thiel's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (125), Chamath Palihapitiya (50), David Sacks (47), David Friedberg (21), Mark Pincus (8), Michael Ovitz (7), Reid Hoffman (5), Keith Rabois (3)

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2026 13 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
2025 48 mentions in 18 episodes 3 per episode
2024 58 mentions in 22 episodes 3 per episode
2023 33 mentions in 12 episodes 3 per episode
2022 60 mentions in 22 episodes 3 per episode
2021 51 mentions in 19 episodes 3 per episode
2020 25 mentions in 9 episodes 3 per episode

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Everything said about Peter Thiel, oldest first

Jun 20, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Facebook board wanted to oust Peter Thiel for supporting Trump
“I do remember the time when Peter supported Trump during the election, and the rest of the board wanted to run him off the board”
David Sacks Jun 20, 2020 ▶ 50:10 E4: Politicizing the pandemic, Police reform, Twitter vs Facebook with David Sacks & David Friedberg
Oct 2, 2021
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Sachs: Capitol Hill staffers call tax legislation the 'Peter Thiel provision'
“And I've actually heard that staffers on Capitol Hill are calling this the Peter Thiel provision.”
David Sacks Oct 2, 2021 ▶ 1:06:13 E49: Coinbase CEO reflects on controversial blog, state of the markets, 1000 unicorns & more
Oct 2, 2021 negative
Opinion
Sachs: Roth IRA tax reforms are political revenge against Peter Thiel
“I think there is a sensible way to provide some restrictions on these retirement accounts, but the way they're doing it is so punitive, I think it is motivated by political revenge against Peter.”
David Sacks Oct 2, 2021 ▶ 1:06:23 E49: Coinbase CEO reflects on controversial blog, state of the markets, 1000 unicorns & more
Feb 5, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks was the only person to beat Thiel in PayPal IPO chess
“Peter did a 10 game simultaneous, which means he's playing against 10 people at the same time. And he goes board to board, makes his move. And I was the only one out of the 10 that beat him.”
David Sacks Feb 5, 2022 ▶ 0:44 E66: $FB's big drop, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup & supply chain issues with Ryan Petersen
Jul 19, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Calacanis: Thiel made record $15M Senate campaign donation for Vance
“Teal backed him with, I think, the largest Senate race donation in history, fifteen million.”
Jason Calacanis Jul 19, 2024 ▶ 44:19 Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
Jul 19, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Reid Hoffman told Peter Thiel he wished Trump was a martyr
“Just days before the shooting, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman had an exchange at Allen and company that was publicly reported. In which Peter said that Reed had turned Trump into a martyr by funding lawfare, and Reed responded, I wish I had turned him into an ac…”
David Sacks Jul 19, 2024 ▶ 16:49 Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
Jul 26, 2024
Insight
Friedberg: Tech acquisitions either mean buyers overpay or sellers sell early
“Either the buyer pays way too much or the seller sells way too early.”
David Friedberg Jul 26, 2024 ▶ 11:51 Mag 7 sell-off, Wiz rejects Google, UBI, Kamala in, China's nuclear buildout, Sacks responds to PG
Sep 13, 2024 negative
Opinion
Thiel: Pursuing applied engineering careers was a mistake since late 1980s
“In retrospect, any applied engineering field was a bad idea. It was a bad idea to become a chemical engineer, you know, a mechanical engineer. AeroAstro was terrible. Nuclear engineering.”
Peter Thiel Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 28:13 Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For
Sep 13, 2024
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Thiel predicts the 2024 presidential election will not be close
“My one contrarian view on the election is that it's not going to be close. You know, most presidential elections aren't, and you know, one side just breaks. You know, 20, twenty-sixteen, twenty-twenty, we're super close, but two-thirds of the elections aren't,…”
Peter Thiel Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 2:50 Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For
Sep 13, 2024 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Thiel claims Kamala Harris will win a close election by cheating
“If it's like going to be a razor thin close election, then I'm pretty sure Kamala will win because they will cheat. They will fortify it. They will steal the ballots.”
Peter Thiel Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 3:30 Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For
Sep 13, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Thiel confirms he will not donate money in the 2024 election
“I am still Very strongly pro-Trump, pro pro-JD. I've decided not to donate any money politically, but I'm supporting them in every other way every other way possible.”
Peter Thiel Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 1:35 Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For
Sep 13, 2024
Insight
Thiel: Extreme optimism and pessimism are both excuses for laziness
“Extreme optimism, extreme pessimism, they're both excuses for laziness.”
Peter Thiel Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 45:20 Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For
Sep 13, 2024 negative
Opinion
Thiel: Innovation no longer happens in universities or government
“It somehow, it doesn't happen in universities. It doesn't happen in government.”
Peter Thiel Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 25:00 Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For
Sep 13, 2024 negative
Opinion
Thiel: 'Low-hanging fruit' stagnation theory is a Baby Boomer excuse
“I always think that was just a sort of baby boomer excuse for covering up for the failures of that generation.”
Peter Thiel Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 28:46 Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For
Sep 13, 2024 bearish
Disclosure
Thiel calls Founders Fund's European venture investments vacation junkets
“We've probably tried to do too much investing in Europe. Over the years, it's always sort of a junket, sort of, it's a nice place to go on vacation as an investor.”
Peter Thiel Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 25:59 Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For
Sep 17, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Ovitz: Peter Thiel originally self-funded Palantir alongside a small DARPA investment
“And he put a ton of his own money into Palantir. He had no investors. He had a small investment from DARPA.”
Michael Ovitz Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 11:50 Michael Ovitz | All-In Summit 2024
Dec 25, 2024 positive
Opinion
Calacanis: Peter Thiel is one of the greatest investors across business and politics
“Best investor for me was Peter Thiel, but on two tracks. Obviously Peter's been in some of the great companies through Founders Fund, including SpaceX, but he also picked Trump, he also picked Vance, and he also picked Sachs, so I think it's undeniable that Pe…”
Jason Calacanis Dec 25, 2024 ▶ 48:57 The All-In Holiday Spectacular
Jan 18, 2025
Disclosure
Mark Pincus co-funded Friendster and invested in early Facebook and Twitter rounds
“Yeah, Reed and I put up the first money for Friendster. And then we were lucky enough to invest along with Peter in the first round of Facebook. The first on Twitter, so.”
Mark Pincus Jan 18, 2025 ▶ 4:48 Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
Jan 20, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mark Pincus: Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman had a deep falling out
“Between Peter and Reed they've been friends for life, and they had a falling, deep falling out over all this”
Mark Pincus Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 53:34 All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
Aug 27, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Weinstein: Working for Peter Thiel closed 30% of academic doors to me
“When I took a job with Peter Thiel, let's imagine that there are only about a 125 people I can speak to about my work. I would say 30% of the doors closed to me, just by virtue of the fact that I worked with Peter Thiel, and I don't think he's the devil, and h…”
Eric Weinstein Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 1:23:32 Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
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