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7 things Bezos, MrBeast & Thiel do that you don’t
- ▶ 19:36 Shaan Puri Next one comes from Peter Thiel. 6 times in the scene
The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
- ▶ 10:50 Shaan Puri Thiel. 11 times in the scene
I Failed 12 Times Before Making My First Million (Here's Every Failure)
Make $8K/day From These Side Hustles You’ve Never Heard Of
How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
- ▶ 42:45 Matt Mazzeo I got Peter Thiel. 6 times in the scene
How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
- ▶ 16:44 Shaan Puri I want to know how Peter Thiel made five billion dollars and didn't pay any tax on it. 4 times in the scene
The Most Valuable Skill For Any Founder
From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+
- ▶ 12:12 James Currier So, you know, like more of a Peter Thiel type or whatever, where he's just like, I just want the truth.
5 Conversations that broke our frames this week
Just found out my neighbor’s business sold for $450M
- ▶ 23:40 Shaan Puri Back when I was like, I had it written on the inside of my palm, and I was like, Peter Thiel says this magic wand thing.
3 Stories of Crazy Geniuses: Fenn’s Treasure, Michael Saylor’s Infinite Money Glitch + more
$100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
- ▶ 0:10 Furqan Rydhan Like Peter Thiel talked about the zero to one companies.
- ▶ 1:27:30 Furqan Rydhan Like Peter Thiel talked about the zero to one companies.
Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
- ▶ 38:43 Ryan Petersen Well, a lot of it, it just comes from Peter being refusing, like, he's just like, that's his whole life thesis is that people are mimetic and they will chase the same outcome, the same goal, the same object, the same mimetic desire. 2 times in the scene
Q&A: Gut punches, favorite guests, plus advice for life
- ▶ 10:02 Sam Parr oh, we only read, like, Peter Thiel books.
- ▶ 34:35 Sam Parr Peter Thiel and him used to argue all the time and debate Peter Thiel's, uh, right of center, Alex Karp is left of center, and so they had opposite politics, and he said in the article that they would argue like ravenous animals, and… 3 times in the scene
10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- ▶ 31:48 Shaan Puri There's also a great story told on the pod about like how Peter Thiel was telling them like, dude, because when they started Palantir, he was like a couple of years out of college.
Life Hacks From The King of Introverts + 7 Business Ideas
Building A 100+ Year Legacy + Peter Thiel’s Fellowship + Bomb Hiring Questions
- ▶ 3:11 Shaan Puri I had heard Peter Thiel was talking about this with Joe Rogan, like, yeah, the sort of whitewashing of a reputation, and they were talking about Epstein, they were talking about Bill Gates, and Rogan brought up, he's like, that's how the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:51 Shaan Puri Peter Thiel basically had this point of view that universities are a bubble and that we, they have this halo, this umbrella 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:16 Shaan Puri They, they basically created, you know, they had Elon, they had Peter Thiel, they had Max Lampson. 2 times in the scene
How To Go Beast Mode As A Founder
- ▶ 1:10 Shaan Puri There's a wonderful story about Peter Thiel when he was running PayPal. 6 times in the scene
The 5 Most Interesting Billionaires Alive...
- ▶ 30:54 Shaan Puri He's the one who connected Mark to Peter Thiel to make, to get the investment, um, the first 500 K investment.
- ▶ 35:56 Shaan Puri He's like, before he went and met with Peter Thiel, he says, oh, I gotta go. 2 times in the scene
From PayPal Intern to Starting 4x Billion-Dollar Companies | Joe Lonsdale Interview
- ▶ 0:50 Joe Lonsdale And I wrote this piece online, like nine lessons from Peter Cheel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:23 Shaan Puri One thing I, I kind of wonder is you've been around a bunch of special people, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, all this stuff. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:08 Joe Lonsdale I do like to think that we've given them useful frameworks, just like I learned from Peter.
- ▶ 22:54 Joe Lonsdale So, so I backed them early along with Peter and I'm like, okay guys, we're back in defense.
- ▶ 28:02 Joe Lonsdale oh God, you know, cause it's like, cause Peter would make me take the meetings after people.
- ▶ 37:15 Joe Lonsdale And so one of our advantages is that, is that one of the Peter Thiel thought experiments was imagine there's five founders who each have an idea and like four of them are like secretly working on it.
- ▶ 40:58 Joe Lonsdale He was the co-founder with Peter on the tech side and arguing about some tech thing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:53 Joe Lonsdale And then Peter, uh, kept trying to like get us to hire a CEO cause Stefan and I were 21 10 times in the scene
Data Backed Businesses Guaranteed To Make +$1M From Day 1
- ▶ 17:58 Jeremy Giffon Um, you know, Blake Masters with Peter Thiel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:03 Jeremy Giffon It's, it's, uh, there's a big, it's a big club, you know, uh, leave it to a philosophy major to know every philosophy major, but, um, there's tons of names, you know, Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Peter Fenton, um, Stuart Butterfield.
I Spent 7 Days With The Richest Men In Texas
3 Anti-Comfort Businesses That Are Making Millions
- ▶ 23:41 Shaan Puri Shout out to Peter Thiel who first pointed this out.
The Cashflow King: “Here’s How I Do It”, Negotiating w/ Jeff Bezos, Elon’s Cracked Rocket
- ▶ 23:16 Shaan Puri And then Peter Thiel and others were like, hey, hey, Mark.
3 Niche Business Ideas We Thought Would Fail… But Actually Crushed It
- ▶ 39:45 Shaan Puri There are going to be huge winners there, but the trick, the, like, you know, Peter Thiel one time went to a, a, a, a meetup, and they were like, what's the key to investing?
What Stock Would Warren Buffett Buy If He Started Over In 2024?
- ▶ 54:04 Shaan Puri And in tech people, you know, from the Peter Thiel school of thought really value a monopoly.
How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546)
$250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal
- ▶ 31:30 Ankur Nagpal So if you read about Peter Thiel and how he grew his, you know, billion dollar Roth IRA, traditionally with the Roth IRA, you can only put in 7000 dollars. 8 times in the scene
Everything I Learned From 48 Hours With MrBeast (The +$1B Mindset) (#539)
- ▶ 30:19 Shaan Puri And like, we've heard these stories about how, you know, Peter Thiel is also a grandmaster chess champion.
This Hedge Fund Manager Got Away With Insider Trading… Then Made Billions (#509)
- ▶ 51:30 Shaan Puri If you use Warren Buffett's rule, you could never be Peter Thiel. 2 times in the scene
CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO' (#505)
- ▶ 42:46 Shaan Puri And I took this because like Peter Thiel said that he did this at PayPal. 3 times in the scene
Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100 Million (#445)
- ▶ 25:45 Martin Shkreli And I slowly kind of cobbled together some money, uh, met folks like Peter Thiel and others to, to try to sort of get some investors. 4 times in the scene
Sam Reveals The Company He's Worked On For The Last 8 Month
- ▶ 52:14 Shaan Puri Peter Thiel has the same thing he used to do at running PayPal famously. 4 times in the scene
How Dave Ramsey Built A $300M/Year Media Empire (#428)
Ryan Holiday Reveals How Much Best Selling Authors Make, Crazy Peter Thiel Stories & More (#370)
Our Producer Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr Beast…
Ryan Holiday On The Economics Of Book Publishing
The Story of Dark Web Kingpin Ross Ulbricht
- ▶ 2:01 Ben Wilson Uh, going forward is idea of like startup cities, autonomous cities, um, like kind of building a new way of living from the ground up and people are doing interesting stuff there with, um, there's something called Prospera that you've…
Fitness Hotels, Steel-Manning, and Why the Creator Economy is Overhyped
- ▶ 7:13 Sam Parr And what did you think of his Peter Thiel thing?
- ▶ 14:43 Shaan Puri Yeah, so that's one, and I think Peter Thiel does that, so it's not that he says, 2 times in the scene
Unbundling Disney, Why CNN is Just Like the WWE, YouTube Creator Camps, and More
MFM Goes to Jail, Startup Cities, Julian Shapiro Building a Ranch, Testing Out Purchases, and More
Dopamine Fasts, Cruise Ship Investing, and Elon vs Bezos with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-Founder of Tiny
- ▶ 43:31 Andrew Wilkinson So Peter Thiel talks about mimesis or mimetic desire. 2 times in the scene
Near Death Accidents and Hitting $1B ARR with Brian Halligan, Founder and Exec Chairman of HubSpot
- ▶ 1:01:23 unnamed speaker I'm not a huge Peter Thiel fan, but he said, he said something interesting in his book.
3 Patterns for Great Business Ideas with Jack Abraham, Founder, Managing Partner & CEO at Atomic
- ▶ 23:09 Jack Abraham And we had some great founders of venture capital firms involved, like Marc Andreessen and, um, Iden Senkit and Peter Thiel and people like that, that helped us a lot in the early days. 6 times in the scene
How to Get a Slice of Harvard's Billion Dollar Case Study Industry | My First Million #222
- ▶ 4:28 Shaan Puri So she dropped out of college, uh, to take the Teal fellowship, which was basically Peter Teal made this thing where it's like, I'll give you a hundred grand if you just drop out of college and, um, work on whatever project you want to… 2 times in the scene
What Venture Capital Will Look Like in the Future | My First Million #215
- ▶ 12:32 Shaan Puri And, uh, so they hire Palantir, the big data company that Peter Thiel started, and they say, hey, come up with a recommendation engine that will figure out what offer we should accept because we don't have time to like vet each offer as…
Frameworks to Become a Billionaire with HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah | My First Million #197
- ▶ 1:01:03 Dharmesh Shah It's gonna go from, uh, Peter, like from a zero to a one very, very quickly.
Second-hand E-commerce, Door-to-door Sales, and Live Show Recaps | My First Million #189
Making Millions Improving Mobility & How to Beat LinkedIn | My First Million #184
- ▶ 1:01:15 Shaan Puri And I was listening to this Peter Thiel thing. 4 times in the scene
Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
- ▶ 33:04 Balaji Srinivasan And that is kind of, you know, Peter Thiel's, you know, a citation of Rene Girard on mimesis, I think is important.
- ▶ 1:09:57 Balaji Srinivasan TL also has a concept of how do you achieve your ten-year goal in six months, you know?
Nicotine Gum, Dating Apps for the Elderly & Vested Shares Tax | My First Million Podcast 03-03-2020
- ▶ 29:53 Shaan Puri And I think you're, you know, you know that Peter Thiel quote where it's like, what's something you believe to be true that few would agree with you on?