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Peter Thiel Biography

Peter Andreas Thiel (/tiːl/; born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and author. He was ranked No. 4 on the Forbes Midas List of 2014, with a net worth of $2.2 billion, and No. 315 on the Forbes 400 in 2017, with a net worth of $2.6 billion. He co-founded PayPal in 1999, serving as chief executive officer until its sale to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.

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There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get out there and fill in the blank spaces. Every single moment is a possibility to go to these new places and explore them.

Discover, Fill, Map, Single Mom, Space, White

We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.

Granted, Mean, Needs, Take, Today

Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.

Business, Condition, Monopoly, Successful, Zero

Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,’ and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun. ’

Fun, Islamic, Killing, Moon, People, Running

Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true. No matter how strong your product-even if it easily fits into already established habits and anybody who tries it likes it immediately-you must still support it with a strong distribution plan.

Established, Monopoly, Strong, Superior, Support, Trying

We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.

140, Character, Characters, Flying Cars, Instead, Wanted

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

Brilliant, Courage, Genius, Rare, Shorter, Thinking

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

30S, Growth, Print, Stuff, Today, Work

A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.

Designing, Key, Keys, Order, Technology

Recruiting is a core competency for any company. It should never be outsourced.

Company, Core, Outsourced, Should

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

Believe, Compatible, Democracy

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

Debt, Growing, Money, Printing Money, Wealth, Years

In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.

Globalization, Scarce, Technology, Unsustainable, World

The college kids should think hard about what they're doing. If you have a great idea for a company, there's no right time to start it, and it's often better to start it sooner rather than later. I went to Stanford undergrad and Stanford Law School, and if I had to do it over again, I might still do those things, but I wish I had asked the type of questions like, why I was doing it, was it just for the status and prestige, or was it because I was really interested in the substance of it.

College, Kids, School, Status, Time

Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that’s generally suppressed and hidden. As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.

Disturbingly, Identify, Opportunities, Opportunity, People, Thinking

If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily a well-defined market to pay people.

Kinds, Pay, People, Science, Thinking

Secrets are hard but solvable problems and we should talk about them. It's hard to work toward a radically better future if you don't believe in secrets.

Believe, Future, Problem, Secret, Talk

The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take the hidden paths.

Infinite, Path, Paths, Road, Take

Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?

Banking, Careers, Families, Hundreds, School, Smart

In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes your company, you should quit now).

Advancement, Careers, Describes, Done, Organization, Quit

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