Peter Thiel

“Instead of, you know, reducing your opponent's argument to a straw man this sort of caricature The least you know charitable interpretation of what they think and why, you know, actually really put yourself in their shoes. Try to argue it as well as possible. …”

“The commonality that stands out to me across all those people is they tend to be pretty polymathic, so they have a wide range of interests. They tend to be driven by a mix of stuff, not just money. So of course money is important and all the rest, but I think …”

“I was introduced to him by Peter Thiel who had invested a lot of money in Palantir and there was no income. He asked me to help monetize it, which shows that you don't have to be totally technical to be in the tech world.”

“And I'm a monopolist. I believe in Peter Thiel's theory on monopoly. I don't believe that you should have competition. They have to be eliminated. That's the American way, in my opinion. Everyone says there's always room for competition. I don't think there's …”

“The first round I raised, Was impossibly hard, and I got caught in between a fight, in a fight in between Peter Thiel and Sequoia, and he had just started Founders Fund, and Sequoia didn't like that, and they were mad at each other, and Peter had said, I'm gon…”