These include Peter Thiel who helped create the PayPal company; Larry Summers, a former United States secretary of the Treasury, and David Frankel, a businessman from South Africa.BigThink’s creators started the website by first getting famous people to agree to be videotaped(录像). They...
Glenn Clarke
Well,maybe not.One of the people behind the project is Peter Thiel.He founded PayPal and was one of the first investors (投资者) in Facebook.So far,he's donated $ 500,000to the project.And Friedman isn't wasting any time.He recently announced the creation of the Poseidon Award.This ...
Peter Thiel spoke at the Oxford Union in January. He covered a lot of these points, and it was recorded (it's a little over an hour): I think that the Q&A is more interesting than his prepared remarks, but the whole thing is worth watching or listening to. Sign up for Sunday Brunch...
Vance’s political career has been bankrolled by Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and of a sinister CIA-connected firm called Palantir Technologies. Thiel is also a Trump supporter, as is Elon Musk, another technocrat who throws out conservative views while at the same time sending out anti-...
Peter Thiel’s “disturbing” keynote “gave the chills” to a writer atMother Jones; the left-wing podcastKnow Your Enemyfound the conference footage “menacing,”“ominous”; even the conservative and generally restrained David Brooks found the event “terrifying,”“alarming” and “disconcertin...
As the largest Bitcoin-focused conference, Bitcoin 2022 is bringing a stellar group of speakers, all of them top players in their respective industries and areas. The list of confirmed speakers includes names like Michael Saylor, Jordan Peterson, Yeonmi Park, Cynthia Lummis, Peter Thiel, Cathie...
‘Di-worsification’ is a term I learned from Peter Lynch in his bookOne Up On Wall Street,which highlights the idea that adding investments to a portfolio can actually weaken an investor’s risk-return tradeoff. By impulse investing in a company because you received a tip from someone, fav...
Here is arch villain and uber-capitalist Peter Theil himself in one of the most honest and insightful business books ever written Zero to One admitting just as much. “Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition ...
Like Peter Thiel said, competition is for losers and monopolists are for the studs. Since most businesses do not fit this profile, this is where being forced or at the very least having the intention to hold a business for 10 years or longer should greatly limit your range of investing ...