Peter Thiel

3 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 1, 2026 by Brian Armstrong · said 19 times in 6 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Mar 1, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Armstrong: PayPal founders initially tried to create decentralized money like Bitcoin
“You go back and look at what, you know, Peter Thiel and Elon, Max Levchin, all these guys were doing, David Sachs, they actually had many similar ideas to Bitcoin. They were trying to create a decentralized form of money that could be permissionless global on …”
Brian Armstrong Mar 1, 2026 ▶ 51:47 Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
Aug 9, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Ovitz agrees with Peter Thiel's Stanford lectures advocating for corporate monopolies
“I love Peter Thiel's Monopoly lectures at Stanford. He's spot on.”
Michael Ovitz Aug 9, 2026 ▶ 33:49 Founder of CAA Michael Ovitz: "I Just Knew I Was Going to Outwork Every One of Them"
Aug 23, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Altman: Paul Graham and Peter Thiel are sounding boards for non-obvious problems
“In, in terms of questions of just, like, you know, business and the world, for a long time in my career, Paul Graham and Peter Thiel have been two of the people that I have learned the most from about lots of different phases of my career and are still the two…”
Sam Altman Aug 23, 2026 ▶ 54:49 Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
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