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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Peter Thiel comes up
Geopolitical Uncertainty – James Aitken, Louis-Vincent Gave, and Marko Papic (EP.440)
- ▶ 57:27 Marko Papic I also like hard tech over soft, so that's kind of the Peter Thiel bits over bytes.
Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406)
- ▶ 1:15:56 Mike Maples, Jr. If I look back at the great startup books, I think Steve Blank's work, Eric Ries, Lean Startup, you could argue Ben Horowitz, Hard Thing About Hard Things, Peter Thiel, Zero to One.
- ▶ 1:19:34 Mike Maples, Jr. I think Peter Thiel is really smart.
Steve Drobny – Where the World is Going at Clocktower Group (Manager Meeting, 30)
- ▶ 28:05 Paula Volent Peter Thiel left Silicon Valley to come to LA.
Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14 (Capital Allocators, EP.245)
- ▶ 27:22 Sebastian Mallaby There are a couple of outliers like Peter Thiel, who has argued in the past, it's better to focus only on allocating capital. 4 times in the scene
Arjun Sethi – A Technology Company that Deploys Capital at Tribe, Venture is Eating the Investment World 10 (Capital Allocators, EP. 240)
- ▶ 1:09:16 Arjun Sethi So when you look at Peter Thiel and how he thinks about using his frameworks of mimesis and the philosophical perspectives of Rene Girard and how he kind of brings that into his investment philosophy.
Justin Fishner- Wolfson - 137 Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.25)
- ▶ 13:20 Justin Fishner-Wolfson Ended up actually being the connection to Peter Thiel and the Founders Fund Network because there was this conference in Jordan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:17 Nat Frazier How'd you go to Peter and say, hey, rocket ships are the future? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:08 Justin Fishner-Wolfson I think in a professional sense, the time I spent with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, I think has really shaped how I think about investing. 2 times in the scene
Barry Sternlicht – Masterclass in Real Estate in a Post-COVID World (Capital Allocators, EP.216)
- ▶ 49:24 Barry Sternlicht And then of course the Palantir's and that stuff where I met Peter Thiel.
BONUS – Michael Mauboussin on the Decision Education Podcast
- ▶ 39:22 Michael Mauboussin So Peter Teal's got this fellowship.
Chamath Palihapitiya – The Social Capital Flywheel (Capital Allocators, EP.167)
- ▶ 14:07 Chamath Palihapitiya When I was closing Social Capital One, I had a very important call with Peter Thiel. 3 times in the scene
Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
- ▶ 46:26 Jonathan Tepper And in the first chapter of the book talks about Buffett and Thiel. 3 times in the scene
Joe Lonsdale – Entrepreneurship and 8VC (First Meeting, EP.09)
- ▶ 4:25 Ted Seides He began working at Peter Thiel's PayPal while Joe was an undergrad at Stanford and upon graduation became an early executive at Thiel's Clarium Capital, which became a multi-billion dollar global macro hedge fund. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:21 Joe Lonsdale I mean, do stuff on the whiteboard and we debated things and I never got an offer from that, but then Peter brought me back the next summer and I started working at PayPal. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:16 Joe Lonsdale There's this long list of things, and of course, Peter was also at the time a big investor in Facebook, so I got to know the Facebook founders really well. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:39 Joe Lonsdale It was one of Peter's old offices, and we started using that and started building it out, and Peter helped us bring on one of the senior guys from PayPal, became another co-founder, Nathan, and we just started working on it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:14 Joe Lonsdale And if you look at the very big names of venture capital, obviously Mark Andreessen is very well known, or Peter Thiel, who I work with and learned a lot from, or Mark's actually also on the board of one of my companies I've started.
Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
- ▶ 1:03:26 Josh Wolfe And there are some people, and I disagree with Peter Thiel about this personally, where he says, you really study the successful people.