Peter Thiel, every mention

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▶ 41:27 Mark Pincus Was impossibly hard, and, 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… 4 times in the scene

▶ 42:05 Michael Ovitz I believe in Peter Thiel's theory on monopoly.
▶ 52:28 Michael Ovitz I was introduced to him by Peter Thiel who had invested a lot of money in Palantir and there was no income. 2 times in the scene

▶ 22:59 Garry Tan I think I've seen Peter Thiel talk about this, like he doesn't really want people who want to start startups.

▶ 2:07 Shane Parrish Now, if the name René Girard sounds familiar, that could be because Girard has influenced the likes of Peter Thiel and Chamath Polyhapitiya.
▶ 35:13 Shane Parrish So, so I first came across Rene Girard's ideas when I was learning, uh, more about Peter Thiel.
▶ 1:00:36 Luke Burgess And I, um, in my conversation that I had with Peter Thiel, when I talked to him for this book, he sort of mentioned this himself and said, uh, it's really powerful when a celebrity sort of straddles the line between an external and an… 2 times in the scene

▶ 22:59 Marc Andreessen Actually, Peter, you know, my friend Peter Thiel has talked a lot about this in public. 6 times in the scene
▶ 1:10:22 Marc Andreessen or Steve Jobs or, you know, Andy Grove or Peter Thiel, you know, we're in the room, right? 3 times in the scene
▶ 1:15:12 Marc Andreessen The, the, the, the Peter Thiel on the shoulder thing is, is a forcing function is how I use it. 3 times in the scene

▶ 15:27 Ryan Holiday I wrote this book several years ago about Peter Thiel called Conspiracy, which was like my first stab at what you would call, actually first and only so far, stab at what you would call narrative nonfiction.
▶ 23:19 Ryan Holiday And I think you've talked about it, but the first person I've, I heard it from was actually Peter Thiel when I was writing conspiracy, but he talked about steel man, like the, the, instead of, you know, reducing your opponent's argument to…

▶ 20:17 Tobi Lütke Um, you know, you know, Teal, Horowitz, and so on, Andy Grove.

▶ 1:02:05 Michael Mauboussin I mean, and that's, that's a little bit of like, uh, Peter Thiel's, like, how to build a great company, right, kind of thing.
▶ 1:02:44 Shane Parrish Hey, on the, the notion of Peter Thiel, uh, to steal one of his questions, I mean, like, what is something that you believe that other people don't?

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