Chafkin: Musk and Thiel have opposite temperaments regarding risk and emotions
Max Chafkin · Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin · Sep 21, 2021 · at 41:30
Max Chafkin, author of a biography on Peter Thiel, contrasts the personalities and investing styles of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
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“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. He's very, you know, he's very prone to, like, you know, getting pissed and then forgiving and then getting pissed again. And of course he's a, you know, he's a gift to the journalistic gods because of that, right? But, and Teal, of course, is Introverted. He's cautious. He's constantly hedging his bets. He doesn't ever want to, you know, want to go all in on anything. And, you know, he's, and he keeps it all, you know, kind of close to the vest.”
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