Peter Thiel

“A Wired exposé on Peter Thiel's Dialog Society generates a lot of hand-wringing over not a lot of substance.”

“Internal records from Dialog—a secretive invite-only group co-founded by Peter Thiel—were left exposed online, revealing members and attendees from U.S. politics, finance, tech, national security, and academia.”

“Peter Thiel took 10% of Facebook and generated one of the greatest venture returns in history.”

“I look back at 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 percentage. And he was okay getting 10% of the company which obviously was clearly the right decision.”

“Was watching these videos, a lot of them like Y Combinator, you know, videos and all this stuff... Read Zero to One, incredible book.”

“Trae Stephens — Contributed questions; cited for sharing his biggest lesson from Peter Thiel”

“Peter Thiel — Co-founder of PayPal and Palantir; founder of Founders Fund”

“There's a reason why Peter Thiel is the greatest venture capitalist in history... he built up a team full of people who were having nothing in common in terms of how we saw the world, but also were truly our own individual characters who could absolutely push back on him.”

“I asked him, what is one thing about Peter Thiel, your biggest lesson? What did you learn? And he was like, that he's always right.”

“Everyone tried to kill him immediately because they were terrified of him. It is exactly confirmation of his fears of group dynamics. He was immediately witch-burned.”

“Panthalassa raised $140M at $1B valuation; backed by Peter Thiel. 'Renewable energy and ocean technology company harnessing ocean energy.'”

“Peter Thiel...Buying a mansion in Buenos Aires, meeting with President Javier Milei and other officials, and temporarily relocating his family there.”

“German defense tech company Quantum Systems, which is backed by investors including Peter Thiel, is seeking a €10 billion valuation in an IPO.”

“Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio”

“Panthalassa…builds autonomous ocean-based systems to generate wave power and run AI computing at sea, raised $140 million in a Series B round led by Peter Thiel, with John Doerr, TIME Ventures, SciFi Ventures…Founders Fund [and others] also piling on.”

“Panthalassa... Raised $140M Series B led by Peter Thiel”

“Founders Fund officially closed a $6B growth fund; notable that senior management and employees (including Peter Thiel) supplied $1.5 billion of the total.”

“Vertical or intensive progress means doing new things — going from 0 to 1. Vertical progress is harder to imagine because it requires doing something nobody else has ever done.”