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Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 27, 2026 · 5 mentions

David Friedberg Explains America's Economic Crisis in 60 Minutes · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 22, 2026 · 1 mention

"Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 10, 2026 · 19 mentions

  • ▶ 0:21 Cyan Banister Peter used to ask me that at Founders Fund, and it's a very important question, because what excites you is interesting, but what worries you is also interesting. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:57 Cyan Banister I don't know if Peter would do it, but who knows?
  • ▶ 51:19 Cyan Banister Um, Peter used to ask me that at Founders Fund, and it's a very important question because it's, what excites you is interesting, but what worries you is also interesting, and I am worried about, um, us moving more and more into a…
  • ▶ 1:05:31 Cyan Banister Um, and then of course Max came, ended up starting PayPal, uh, teamed up with Luke, and then eventually Peter came on board, and then the Elon part also happened.
  • ▶ 1:19:43 Cyan Banister Well, Peter Thiel, obviously, uh, Mark Andreessen. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:24:17 Molly O'Shea Like, I think there was a tweet last week, and you're like, and people were all complaining about the Peter Thiel event, like, oh, someone, like, said that they were, like, embarrassed to go. 6 times in the scene

Brian Armstrong: Rebuilding Coinbase Around Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 26, 2026 · 2 mentions

Mark Pincus: How to Spot a Fake CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 23, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:19 Mark Pincus I reread Peter Thiel's book after 10 years, and I was amazed that the points still resonated. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:41 Mark Pincus Well, my goal in writing this book, you know, I had, we all have ambitious hopes and dreams, and mine was, I hoped it could be referenceable on the level of zero to one, and I reread Peter Thiel's book after 10 years, I think it just… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:17:29 Mark Pincus But it was this beautiful, broken down, old Colorado ranch, and I hosted this Think Weekend, and I had Peter Thiel, and Reed, and Zuckerberg, and Sean Parker. 2 times in the scene

SpaceX IPO: Inside the Firm That Owns 1% · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 14, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:49 Justin Fishner-Wolfson I think that's fine, but like I look back at, you know, sort of what, you know, what Peter did with Facebook, you know, I think a lot of the reason that he originally did that deal was because most people wanted a much higher ownership…

Brian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist" · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 11, 2026 · 24 mentions

  • ▶ 6:46 Brian Singerman I didn't know who Peter was. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:37 Molly O'Shea Cause I believe that you are an extension of the people that you're closest with and, and even through founders fund and that sort of thing, the people that you're close with, like, what did you learn from Peter Thiel? 14 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:38 Brian Singerman I mean, you kind of fight as much as you can, but Peter is not wrong that that is a threat. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:12 Molly O'Shea But, okay, so we talked about Peter Thiel a bit.
  • ▶ 28:42 Molly O'Shea So we talked about, we talked a bit about Teal. 4 times in the scene

Max Levchin: “The Net IQ of the World Is About to Go Up 50 Points” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 13, 2026 · 4 mentions

Warren Buffet & Charlie Munger's Greatest Lessons · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 31, 2025 · 1 mention

Jeffrey Katzenberg's $2.8 Billion Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:08 Jeffrey Katzenberg They Peter Thiel and those guys, they started, you know, PayPal, they started Palantir, like they've they're builders.

Trae Stephens on Anduril’s Origin, Peter Thiel, & Palantir DNA · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 18, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 0:49 Trae Stephens The most annoying lesson I've learned from Peter Thiel is that he's always right. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:21 Molly O'Shea Peter Thiel put out that letter to Mark Zuckerberg in twenty-twenty on the rise of pro-socialism, and we're seeing that in New York City with Mom Donny.
  • ▶ 27:45 Trae Stephens I mean, if you, we have no build program, there's no incubation policy or anything like that at Founders Fund, but, you know, Peter started Palantir.
  • ▶ 29:53 Molly O'Shea From your time at Founders Fund, what's the biggest lesson you've learned from Peter Thiel? 6 times in the scene

What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:01 Bradley Tusk Um, and there are half a dozen people, Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, Chamath, others who are big Trump supporters, Peter Thiel, Elon in a way.

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir: Exclusive Interview Inside PLTR Office · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 11, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:16 Alex Karp We gave venture returns as if you're like, you know, I don't know, you're like Peter Thiel, Sequoia, Coastal returns.

Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 19, 2025 · 9 mentions

Inside the $750B+ Thiel Fellowship · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Aug 29, 2025 · 33 mentions

  • ▶ 0:40 Molly O'Shea Why do you think people believe teal is evil?
  • ▶ 9:33 Molly O'Shea The classic teal question. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:36 Danielle Strachman We anticipated Peter to get
  • ▶ 27:30 Danielle Strachman I know that they had, like, uh, Jim and, and Peter and Luke Nozick had flown back on a plane from New York.
  • ▶ 33:03 Molly O'Shea Working closely with the Teal Foundation through Teal Fellows and being involved in this universe, why do you think people believe Teal is evil? 20 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:04 Danielle Strachman Peter was our anchor check actually.
  • ▶ 48:28 Danielle Strachman Peter did an interview with Sarah Lacey, and it looked like the program was all fleshed out and speaking about it in the present tense. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:31 Danielle Strachman It was interesting timing too, because the social network was coming out, uh, that week on Friday and Peter knew that maybe he wouldn't be presented in the best light through that movie. 3 times in the scene

Carta CEO Henry Ward on Raising $1B, Path to ~$500M ARR, & the Move into PE · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Aug 6, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:21 Henry Ward We're big fans of Peter Thiel's competition is for losers.
  • ▶ 10:51 Henry Ward So we're big fans of the compet- Peter Thiel's competition is for losers. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:07 Henry Ward However you define that, that's an, another Teal, uh, thing or an Andreessen thing.

How Whop Is Making $1.2+ Billion For Creators · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:01 Jack Sharky Some of our earliest investors were people like Justin Mateen, founder of Tinder, Justin Khan, founder of Twitch, um, Peter Thiel, and then we had our first series A raised, uh, led by Insight, and then

Inside Varda’s Space Factory | Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund & Varda · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 28, 2025 · 1 mention

SpaceX, Stripe, Ramp, Anduril: Navigating Liquidity in Private Markets · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 41:07 Christian Garrett And then, um, I read Peter's book as well, zero to one, um, surely have to college. 2 times in the scene

Cyan Banister & Lee Jacobs: Investing in 'The Magically Weird' | SpaceX, Uber, Anduril · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 20, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:58 Cyan Banister And I remember Peter Thiel once told me, he said, when someone says, what are you excited about? 2 times in the scene

Alex Kolicich, 8VC | AI & Defense Tech Renaissance · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:40 Molly O'Shea Prior to joining eight BC, Alex was a partner at formation eight and also worked with Peter Thiel at Mithril Capital.

The Quiet Revolution in DNA Sequencing | Nucleus Genomics · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Aug 16, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:19 Molly O'Shea They've raised more than eighteen million dollars in venture funding to date with the last round led by Alexis Ohanian of seven seven six with additional investors such as Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.

John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund, Founder of Soylent & Lucy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 24, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:07 John Coogan It's kind of the classic, you know, Tealian secret where the, the, the reality and the, and the, the science does not match the public perception.
  • ▶ 37:50 Molly O'Shea Peter Thiel saying that this.

Get Tesla Big | Chris Power, Hadrian · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 29, 2024 · 2 mentions

Varda's Landing, Peter Thiel, & the Future of El Segundo, Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 15, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:44 Delian Asparouhov But then you look at somebody like, you know, sort of our, you know, CEO and, you know, original co-founder of Founders Fund, you know, Peter Thiel, I would argue, you know, while, you know, he doesn't necessarily always submit to the… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:24 Delian Asparouhov And so kind of put the idea on the shelf, COVID hits, you know, Peter at Founders Fund basically tells us, you know, you know, go on a six month vacation.
  • ▶ 29:46 Delian Asparouhov But then you look at somebody like, you know, sort of our, you know, CEO and, you know, original co-founder of Founders Fund, you know, Peter Thiel, I would argue, you know, while, you know, he doesn't necessarily always submit to the…

David Weisburd, 10X Capital: Finding Alpha and LP Bias · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 8, 2024 · 1 mention

Alex Kolicich, 8VC: Exodus of Venture Capital, AI Predictions · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 3, 2024 · 1 mention

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