Peter Thiel

Partner and Co-Founder, Founders Fund · 0 appearances on the record.

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Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal and Palantir Technologies, and was the first outside investor in Facebook. Through his venture firm Founders Fund, he backed companies including SpaceX and Airbnb, and co-authored Zero to One.

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Everything Peter Thiel said on BigDeal that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Thiel: There Are Only Two Types of Businesses: Competitors and Monopolies
“The extreme binary View of the world I always articulate is that there are exactly two kinds of businesses in this world. There are businesses that are perfectly competitive, and there are businesses that are monopolies.”
Peter Thiel May 5, 2025 ▶ 11:49 Do This One Thing to 2x Your Business

The other half of the tape: Peter Thiel's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 28 times in 8 episodes on BigDeal. 4 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Amjad Masad 10Codie Sanchez 7Eric Jorgenson 4Joe Lonsdale 3Dara Ladjevardian 3David Senra 1

Statements about Peter Thiel, by other people (4)

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Sanchez: Peter Thiel rejected Replit, saying it would never be big
“I remember when I told Peter Thiel that he should invest in the company and Peter said, it's never going to be a big company. This vibe coding thing is sort of ridiculous. And he put it in an email”
Codie Sanchez May 13, 2026 ▶ 35:59 Billionaire Founder: No One Tells You This About Starting A Company | Ankur Jain
Assertion Partly supported
Masad: Peter Thiel left Meta board over disagreements on VR and AI
“And at the time, he actually had just left the Meta's board, and the reason he left is he disagreed with how Meta's trying to invest in all these immersion technologies, like VR and AI, and Zuck is trying to find his next act.”
Amjad Masad Jul 30, 2025 ▶ 1:14:59 AI CEO: How To Make A $10M Business With AI Employees (Amjad Masad, CEO of @replit)
Disclosure
Masad: Peter Thiel dismissed 2022 AI pitch as meaningless hype
“So I actually pitched Peter Thiel on AI back in 22, and he told me that I was engaging in buzzwords and hype, and he says saying AI is like saying software or saying a computer, it's meaningless.”
Amjad Masad Jul 30, 2025 ▶ 1:14:20 AI CEO: How To Make A $10M Business With AI Employees (Amjad Masad, CEO of @replit)
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Lonsdale: Startup CEOs earning under $75k massively outperformed higher-paid peers
“You know, actually when I was working with Peter Thiel, must have been 21 or so, we conducted a study he had me look into of CEO salaries. And so it turned out there were three different cohorts. At the time salaries were lower. This was turning 42 this week. …”
Joe Lonsdale Oct 1, 2024 ▶ 36:42 Billionaire Entrepreneur: “America Will Collapse Without A Recession” | Joe Lonsdale

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