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Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · Y Combinator Jul 28, 2026 · 1 mention

Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator Jun 25, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:04 Mark Pincus Ever imagined how, I know none of us ever imagined how big this, Peter Thiel, all of us, we all sold our stock in Facebook, so we voted with our shares, you know, none of us could have ever described how big this all got.

How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator Jul 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:57 Garry Tan That I just wanted to be here, and I became much more of a heat-seeker seeking missile for, like, uh, like that type of, like, this is gonna be huge, but, um, I wish, you know, at, at 22 I lucked out, you know, like my friends went to…

Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator Jun 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:43 Garry Tan One of the things we've talked about in the past is that, ah, we both are big followers of, ah, Peter Thiel in that he talks a lot about being contrarian but right. 2 times in the scene

Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator Jun 11, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:04 Garry Tan The classic Peter Thielism is, uh, what do you believe that nobody else believes?

State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator May 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:55 Garry Tan And one of the key recognitions that Peter Thiel and Alex Karp and Stefan Cohen and Joe Lonsdale, Nathan Gettings, like the original founders of Palantir had, was that, uh, go into anywhere in the Fortune 500, go into any government agency…

Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product · Y Combinator Sep 12, 2018 · 1 mention

Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator Mar 30, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:53 Vivek Ravisankar Yeah, I think, uh, uh, Peter Thiel, uh, talked about this, uh, I, I think maybe one of the podcasts or one of the interviews, uh, which is the way PayPal got built was they went and hired people who, who the others thought weren't…

Tim Urban of Wait But Why · Y Combinator Jan 3, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:53 unnamed speaker I'll Google, what is cryonics?

Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit - Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers · Y Combinator Sep 25, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:34 Courtland Allen So I think this question originally comes from Peter Thiel, who would ask the founders of companies that he was interested in investing in, just as a way to find out if, like, what they're doing is truly unique, and whether they'd be able… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 49:13 Courtland Allen I like Peter Thiel's Zero to One.

The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator Sep 8, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 38:12 Tikhon Bernstam Like, I think that's kind of, I think, I think in Zero to One, Peter Thiel kind of talks about this. 2 times in the scene

From Startup to Scaleup | Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman · Y Combinator May 31, 2017 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 12:53 Reid Hoffman Peter and Max and I were going on walks about, like, how to first build what was first called FieldLink, then Confinity, then PayVal. 4 times in the scene

Mark Zuckerberg : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator Aug 16, 2016 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 23:14 Mark Zuckerberg I think probably, I think it became a, a, a formal Delaware company when Peter Thiel invested about six months in. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:19 unnamed speaker Speaking of Peter, and sort of a closing question, what, what's the best piece of advice he ever gave you? 2 times in the scene
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