Peter Thiel, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 92Max Levchin 25Reid Hoffman 5Patrick Collison 5Patrick and John Collison 5Jeremy Stoppelman 4
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Peter Thiel comes up
Figma: Dylan Field
SmartSweets: Tara Bosch
Affirm: Max Levchin (Part 2 of 2)
- ▶ 2:53 Guy Raz Last week, we heard about the origin story of PayPal and all the characters who helped build it, including Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk.
- ▶ 5:55 Guy Raz You did this with, I guess you got some backing from Peter Thiel.
- ▶ 14:42 Max Levchin Um, I think the original idea was that Peter and I funded it.
- ▶ 24:43 Max Levchin Peter walked in, and he asked me, what are you working on? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:29 Guy Raz So with Peter Thiel.
- ▶ 53:59 Guy Raz When he met Peter Thiel, he went to this lecture that he gave in front of four or five people. 2 times in the scene
PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
- ▶ 2:24 Guy Raz The PayPal story is full of public drama and private intrigue, and not surprisingly has focused on its three best known founders, Peter Thiel, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:45 Guy Raz How Max moves out to Silicon Valley, meets an up and coming small time investor named Peter Thiel, and starts a brand new business that initially goes absolutely nowhere.
- ▶ 25:46 Guy Raz And I guess in, in August of 98, a fateful and certainly fortunate encounter, um, we went to a lecture at Stanford by Peter Thiel. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:58 Max Levchin So that was my idea number one, and I pitched that to Peter, and he was sort of like, hmm, okay. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:37 Guy Raz And, and, and a, a fortuitous meeting for Peter Thiel as well, because he was, he had a ten million dollar fund at that point. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:19 Guy Raz I'm so, I guess, I, I mean, if Peter Thiel was behind you and he probably, he already had some connections, 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:05 Guy Raz So Peter is a CEO and you are presumably the head of technology and you're, you're, you're trying to develop this, you know, this crypto, um, software that will encrypt data between Palm pilots. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:13 Max Levchin My main concern at the time, I think Peter's as well, was this notion that it was just so completely irrational for these two companies to try to kill each other while the opportunity was so vast.
- ▶ 1:05:57 Guy Raz Did, I mean, you were younger, you're younger than Nealon and Peter, and did you, were you comfortable with sort of him, you know, kind of running the show?
- ▶ 1:07:01 Guy Raz I mean, Peter, Peter was out of the picture, kind of. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:32 Max Levchin That squarely goes to the brilliance of Peter Thiel in his, uh, nose. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:14 Guy Raz Peter was
- ▶ 1:22:01 Max Levchin Peter said, I think this is the last time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:21 Guy Raz I mean, obviously, Peter Thiel famously, most famously, um, did, did you try that at all?
Birchbox: Katia Beauchamp
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018)
- ▶ 21:31 Patrick Collison We had a meeting with Peter Thiel, uh, and sort of, uh, you know, just as in this conversation, we sort of told him structurally what we saw as being all the kind of major flaws in PayPal. 5 times in the scene
Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
- ▶ 10:09 Guy Raz Peter Thiel is there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:51 Jeremy Stoppelman Well, months prior to actually coming back, I had reached out to my old network, and so I reached out to Elon, I reached out to Peter Thiel, reached out to Max, uh, and Peter right off the bat offered me an opportunity to come to Clarion… 4 times in the scene
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison
- ▶ 21:38 Patrick and John Collison We had a meeting with Peter Thiel, uh, and sort of, uh, you know, just as in this conversation, we sort of told him structurally what we saw as being all the kind of major flaws in PayPal. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:09 Patrick and John Collison Um, but Peter being, uh, such a, sort of, you know, an inveterate contrarian, um, was quite sympathetic to this case, and decided on the spot, uh, to make, you know, a fairly material investment of 200,000 dollars. 2 times in the scene
LinkedIn: Reid Hoffman
- ▶ 2:26 Guy Raz And so is his college buddy, Peter Thiel, who you will hear a lot about during this interview. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:21 Guy Raz I mean, you were classmates with, like, Jerry Yang, who, yep, the founder of Yahoo, um, and, and of course, famously, Peter Thiel. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:05 Reid Hoffman I went and, uh, talked to my friend Peter Thiel, and I was like, look, you know, this hasn't worked out. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:11 Reid Hoffman Well, the primary, the first conversation that Peter had with me was, we don't really have a functional business model, but we do have a really good way of attracting customers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:35 Guy Raz By the way, you know that connection between Reed and Peter Thiel? 4 times in the scene