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7 things Bezos, MrBeast & Thiel do that you don’t Sep 2, 2026 · 6 mentions

The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of Jan 19, 2026 · 11 mentions

I Failed 12 Times Before Making My First Million (Here's Every Failure) Nov 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

Make $8K/day From These Side Hustles You’ve Never Heard Of Sep 22, 2025 · 1 mention

How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents) Jun 6, 2025 · 6 mentions

How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes) May 14, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 5, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 16:15 Sam Parr When Sean first told me about, I think it was on this podcast, or I forget when, but you or someone told me about Peter Thiel's, uh, Thiel Fellowship. 4 times in the scene

From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+ Apr 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Mar 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:27 Sam Parr And it was proof that, you know, how, like, I think it was in the Peter Thiel.

Just found out my neighbor’s business sold for $450M Jan 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Dec 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:26 Sam Parr And so, and Peter Thiel, who's like the savantiest of savants, has said, like, there's this fifth tentpole of this equation, which is called brand, and he goes, I don't understand brand, though.

$100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025 Nov 26, 2024 · 2 mentions

Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom Nov 11, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Oct 30, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Sep 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Sep 6, 2024 · 1 mention

Building A 100+ Year Legacy + Peter Thiel’s Fellowship + Bomb Hiring Questions Aug 28, 2024 · 15 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jul 8, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 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... May 15, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Apr 26, 2024 · 29 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Apr 17, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Apr 12, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 12:27 Sam Parr His background is, I think he went to Stanford and he somehow got into Peter Thiel's orbit when Joe was just like, 21 or 20, or still in college. 4 times in the scene

3 Anti-Comfort Businesses That Are Making Millions Apr 1, 2024 · 1 mention

The Cashflow King: “Here’s How I Do It”, Negotiating w/ Jeff Bezos, Elon’s Cracked Rocket Mar 20, 2024 · 1 mention

3 Niche Business Ideas We Thought Would Fail… But Actually Crushed It Feb 16, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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? Feb 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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) Feb 2, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 24:07 Sam Parr I heard this crazy story where they're like, I think it was Yahoo that was offering to buy them, where, you know, Zuck's sitting there, and all the Yahoo gray hairs are talking to him, and they make the offer, and he was like, hey, can you… 3 times in the scene

$250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal Jan 17, 2024 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 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) Jan 10, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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) Oct 19, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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) Oct 10, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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) Apr 20, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Mar 28, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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) Mar 9, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:22 Sam Parr I think you're right when it's, uh, when people have tasted the original that they don't really want the, the or when it's like, uh, community community brand, uh, like personality driven, you know, it's, it's that one moat that Peter…

Ryan Holiday Reveals How Much Best Selling Authors Make, Crazy Peter Thiel Stories & More (#370) Oct 4, 2022 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 43:16 Sam Parr Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker and Peter Thiel. 7 times in the scene

Our Producer Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr Beast… Jul 19, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:24 Sam Parr Listen, in that book, what's Peter Thiel's book? 2 times in the scene

Ryan Holiday On The Economics Of Book Publishing Feb 8, 2022 · 1 mention

The Story of Dark Web Kingpin Ross Ulbricht Dec 29, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Dec 9, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Nov 30, 2021 · 2 mentions

MFM Goes to Jail, Startup Cities, Julian Shapiro Building a Ranch, Testing Out Purchases, and More Oct 27, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:29 Sam Parr And so it was set up in part by Peter Thiel, who's a very controversial weirdo type of guy. 2 times in the scene

Dopamine Fasts, Cruise Ship Investing, and Elon vs Bezos with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-Founder of Tiny Oct 20, 2021 · 2 mentions

Near Death Accidents and Hitting $1B ARR with Brian Halligan, Founder and Exec Chairman of HubSpot Oct 14, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Oct 8, 2021 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Sep 29, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Sep 1, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jul 7, 2021 · 1 mention

Second-hand E-commerce, Door-to-door Sales, and Live Show Recaps | My First Million #189 Jun 9, 2021 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 39:56 Sam Parr Basically, uh, I think this is what Peter Thiel did. 7 times in the scene

Making Millions Improving Mobility & How to Beat LinkedIn | My First Million #184 May 21, 2021 · 4 mentions

Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178 May 5, 2021 · 2 mentions

Nicotine Gum, Dating Apps for the Elderly & Vested Shares Tax | My First Million Podcast 03-03-2020 Mar 12, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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?
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