His whole thing is being slippery, but I think when you look at the body of what he’s done and the things he’s been involved with, that’s the picture that emerges.Ī lot of people were very surprised that this nerdy, gay, Californian son of immigrants techpreneur decided to support Donald Trump’s presidency. There would be some rationale and in fact, at various times he’s walked back things he said. He would explain it as belief in efficiency and results, right? He would not say, ‘I don’t think everybody has the right to vote.’ Facebook, I’d say is the most influential media entity in the history of humanity, but he also has a major stake in several defense contractors, including SpaceX.
That’s pretty scary when you consider the role the companies that he’s been involved in play. He talks about how companies are better run than governments because they have a single decision maker-a dictator, basically. Thiel taught this class at Stanford and then turned it into a book called Zero to One. What do you find scary about his economic and political philosophy? It’s not something that happens accidentally. There’s this aspect of crypto-world now, where people are really excited about the idea of taking power away from institutions and governments and that’s something that Thiel and his libertarian brethren that were starting that company were really interested in. He is also the person who basically set up Mark Zuckerberg to be Mark Zuckerberg and turned him into this imperial CEO, who is now, arguably more powerful than a lot of world leaders.Ī lot of people are really excited about cryptocurrency and you can connect it back to to PayPal, which is the company that Thiel co-founded in the late 1990s with an explicitly libertarian ethos. He was the first outside money in the company. And a lot of people are super skeptical of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO. Obviously Facebook is one of the world’s largest companies a lot of people think it’s uniquely bad for the world. He’s this behind the scenes player, who is behind so many of the really important things that have happened over the last two decades. I think that Peter Thiel is secretly the most important person in Silicon Valley. Why should we care about Peter Thiel, apart from the fact that he is another rich tech billionaire and they’re all weirdly fascinating? TIME chatted with its author, journalist Max Chafkin.
A new biography, The Contrarian, suggests that he is after more than riches. Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel is famous for destroying media outlets, not paying taxes, and being a conservative tech billionaire. Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel visits "FOX & Friends" at Fox News Channel Studios on Aug.
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