Peter Thiel

“Peter Thiel's attempting to be the inheritor of that movement and to be the patron of that movement, to be the person who is behind the scenes for the 20 to 30% of the country that wants the guy who says the craziest shit in the room.”

“It definitely, I think that case definitely created an environment where it was harder for people, harder for journalists to really think critically or write critically or talk to sources about Peter Thiel. It hangs over every conversation you have, every conv…”

“I think a lot of the kind of some of this kind of cult of disruption stuff that we see in, in, in Silicon Valley, probably best epitomized by like Uber or something, I think kind of has its roots in right wing activist politics, the right wing activist politic…”

“As I understand it, you know, there was a lot of back and forth within Founders Fund over that investment where Luke Nosek was pushing really hard to do that investment. Teal wasn't so sure because Teal doesn't, you know, it's not his You know, like taking tha…”

“He set up this meeting this big meeting with all the tech CEOs, gets Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, in a room with Donald Trump, which I think was very important for Palantir, and has helped, one of, is one of the reasons Palantir has been so successful over the …”

“Teal attempted to get Balaji Srinivasan made FDA commissioner.”

“And as a result, his hedge fund completely failed. And you know, he had to basically, it was reformed as a, you know, family office, like the outside capital it w w went away. And he lost billions of dollars.”

“Thiel also had the opportunity to suggest all these chief, candidates for chief scientists, the top scientific advisor to the to the president and his two main choices were climate change deniers. Who, you know, one of whom William Happer... The other, his oth…”

“I think he's a libertarian and I think, which I think, you know, a hundred percent influenced by Thiel there. But I also think to some extent he has no left right politics. His politics are Whatever is going to be required to allow Facebook to grow as big as p…”

“I think that Teal has had, yeah, just an enormous impact on Mark Zuckerberg. Both in terms of like how the company is structured, like the literal way that Zuckerberg you know, got control of Facebook and maintain control of Facebook. And then, but also Yeah, …”

“Josh Hawley is another one of these figures, also a figure former Stanford review guy who has taken money from Teal, who has endorsed JD Vance.”

“Oh, this coup happened, but at the time, you know, Elon was a much more better respected, more famous entrepreneur than Peter Thiel. Elon had already sold a company at, he had Mike Moritz, who is the, you know, most respected venture capitalist in Silicon Vall…”

“The acquisition of citizenship in New Zealand, which we haven't touched on, but he secretly acquired citizenship.”

“This idea that founders, that the class of the founder is this kind of special person who has a privileged access to kind of like what the company is supposed to do and who's right. Who's just knows what's best. That came from Peter Thiel. I mean, that, that c…”

“That ethos, Thielism, if you want to call it that, is Basically the main ethos of Facebook, of, you know, of most of the bigger companies in Silicon Valley. This idea that the rules yeah, just aren't that important and maybe it's best to cast them aside from t…”

“It was Teal who sort of set in motion this stock structure that creates the conflict between Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg, which is the, you know, whatever the basis of the social network.”

“It was totally designed to like, to you know, for lack of a better word, like troll the libs, right? Like they slate did a slate, you know, did like a hit piece on On the, I'm using the builder language here... They use it in their marketing. They loved it. Yo…”

“Teal has been pursuing his whole career, this very, very, very aggressive strategy to pay. It's legal, but just exceedingly aggressive strategy to pay almost nothing in taxes on his on most of his income. It's his investment income. Because it's all in a Roth …”

“Putting ten million dollars into this guy, Blake Masters, running for Senate in Arizona, ten million dollars into JD Vance Both of them either former or current, you know, Teal employees”

“I would argue that Teal has had a bigger cultural impact on, on the tech industry than any single person.”

“First time they acknowledged it on stage. Cause there actually had been one other, there had been another instance. But that That person was booed during the, you know, during the during the speech. And Teal not only wasn't booed, but he got a standing ovation…”

“I think that Elon and Peter are basically just almost complete opposites, like, temperamentally. You know, Musk is this kind of very emotional, all, you know, he, if he's gonna bet on something, he's going all in. He, you know, wears his heart on his sleeve. H…”

“Some of the things that, that PayPal did because PayPal totally just ignored every banking regulation. They, you know, it wasn't just that they were ideologically opposed to, you know, like the normal model of regulating currencies. They were just actively jus…”

“He's, you know, been a patron to this guy, Curtis Yarvin, who is you know better known as a mold bug, but you know, this blogger who is whose big idea basically is, is a dictatorship.”