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Peter Thiel designed the Thiel Fellowship to troll his liberal critics
“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…”
Peter Thiel acted as patron to pro-dictatorship blogger Curtis Yarvin
“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.”
Founder worship in Silicon Valley originated from Thiel's Founders Fund
“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…”
PayPal built its early business by ignoring banking regulations
“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…”
Thiel designed the stock structure that drove Zuckerberg and Saverin apart
“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.”
Thiel invested $10M each in former employees JD Vance and Blake Masters
“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”
Peter Thiel attempted to make Balaji Srinivasan FDA commissioner under Trump
“Teal attempted to get Balaji Srinivasan made FDA commissioner.”
Thiel pushed climate deniers as Trump's top presidential science advisors
“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…”
Chafkin: Thiel Sheltered Investment Income Tax-Free in Roth IRA
“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 …”
Chafkin: Peter Thiel's Clarium Capital failed and lost billions of dollars
“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.”
Chafkin: Luke Nosek pushed Founders Fund to back SpaceX over Thiel's hesitation
“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…”
Elon Musk was more respected than Peter Thiel during PayPal's coup
“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…”
Chafkin: Josh Hawley took Peter Thiel funding and backed Vance
“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.”
Chafkin: Thiel was first speaker to acknowledge being gay at RNC
“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…”