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The tech industry learned to win via regulatory arbitrage from PayPal
“And I think you know, the rest of the tech industry you know, kind of learned a valuable lesson from that experience, which is that you can you know, you can succeed by pursuing this sort of regulatory arbitrage by attacking a regulated industry and by making …”
Max Chafkin Sep 21, 2021 ▶ 12:49 Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin
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Chafkin: Silicon Valley originated as defense contracting, not counterculture
“But it's kind of a weird way of looking at an industry that literally started as an extension of the U.S. Military. And like, you know, there's nothing, there is, there are countercultural things about Silicon Valley. But to see the tech industry as just this …”
Max Chafkin Sep 21, 2021 ▶ 16:38 Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin
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