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How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn Aug 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:06:46 David Cahn But then, uh, you have all, you know, you have Peter Thiel saying that it's like the anti-Christ, right?

OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute Apr 1, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 50:13 Alex Kantrowitz Reflecting on that, Peter Thiel has mentioned, pretty sure that's what he said, that if you're a math person, you're probably in deeper trouble in terms of these models coming from what you do than if you're a words person. 2 times in the scene

Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler Jul 9, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 45:16 M.G. Siegler On the other hand, like, again, he could be looking at his old friend, Peter Thiel, and seeing what he did with, uh, the certain, certain person who is now the vice president of the United States. 2 times in the scene

Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:37 Saagar Enjeti This is all that he does, but the risk is also, you know, having read some of that is, uh, he does tend to have falling outs with almost everybody who he's involved with, except for people like Peter Thiel and a few others, but even they,…

Why The Costco Guys And Hawk Tuah Took Over The Internet Jan 9, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 47:56 Ryan Broderick Yeah, there, there was a really interesting moment on a recent episode of Pierce Morgan where he's interviewing Peter Thiel, and the United Healthcare shooter is a big fan of Peter Thiel. 4 times in the scene

Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For? Sep 13, 2024 · 1 mention

Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War Dec 4, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:02 Ryan Broderick A group I'd written about previously of crypto accelerationists that had rebranded into AI accelerationists and were part of the New York downtown scene, trying to get Peter Thiel's money.

Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin Sep 21, 2021 · 198 mentions

  • ▶ 0:14 Alex Kantrowitz Of the brand new book just hit shelves yesterday, it's called The Contrarian, Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power.
  • ▶ 0:53 Alex Kantrowitz Um, Peter Thiel is one, one guy. 14 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:21 Alex Kantrowitz And he hated, it seems like he hated people who were pro-government, pro-institution, uh, in part because he was bullied as a kid and was sort of an outcast. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:27 Max Chafkin And then there's this, like, other thread, which is the Tealist thread, which is business as disruption, business as power. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:26 Alex Kantrowitz He is the author of The Contrarian, Peter Thiel, and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power.
  • ▶ 21:37 Alex Kantrowitz He's talking to us about his Peter Thiel book, The Contrarian. 17 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:36 Alex Kantrowitz Um, but anyway, uh, so, but he also has this founders fund where he does, uh, do this startup investing and starts the fellowship. 14 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:11 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, so I want to take a moment here, pause and talk about the man that we just brought up Mark Zuckerberg, uh, because Thiel and Zuckerberg have an interesting relationship. 12 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:40 Alex Kantrowitz So I'd love for you to describe the, um, interesting kind of yo-yo relationship between Teal and Musk. 22 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:06 Alex Kantrowitz What's your release relationship like with Peter Thiel? 18 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:48 Alex Kantrowitz Do you like him? 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 51:12 Alex Kantrowitz He's the author of The Contrarian, Peter Thiel, and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power.
  • ▶ 51:32 Alex Kantrowitz It's all about Peter Thiel. 15 times in the scene
  • ▶ 57:25 Max Chafkin There is this kind of like, um, talking to, to DC people about Teal, you know, they kind of often talk about him as this kind of cipher because he doesn't behave in, in the normal ways he saw. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:02:46 Alex Kantrowitz So till we've spoken about, um, is gay. 18 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:07:48 Max Chafkin Well, I think it's important, um, with Teal to see that the business and politics are always connected, that, that he doesn't, that he has these, he, he has a sort of political project and a business pot project, and they work together in… 11 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:14:15 Alex Kantrowitz So, Teal's out of office. 15 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:17:17 Alex Kantrowitz The book is The Contrarian, Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power.
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