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class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Peter_Thiel_(2014).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Peter_Thiel_%282014%29.jpg/220px-Peter_Thiel_%282014%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="329" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Peter_Thiel_%282014%29.jpg/330px-Peter_Thiel_%282014%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Peter_Thiel_%282014%29.jpg/440px-Peter_Thiel_%282014%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="684" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>I don't the intellectual battle is ever fully over, because I don't think history is over.</figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel" class="extiw" title="w:Peter Thiel">Peter Andreas Thiel</a></b> (born 11 October <a href="/wiki/1967" class="mw-disambig" title="1967">1967</a>) is a German-American billionaire entrepreneur, hedge fund manager, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and author. A co-founder of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal" class="extiw" title="w:PayPal">PayPal</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies" class="extiw" title="w:Palantir Technologies">Palantir Technologies</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_Fund" class="extiw" title="w:Founders Fund">Founders Fund</a>, he was the first outside investor in <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Thiel&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Peter_Thiel_TechCrunch50.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Peter_Thiel_TechCrunch50.jpg/220px-Peter_Thiel_TechCrunch50.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Peter_Thiel_TechCrunch50.jpg/330px-Peter_Thiel_TechCrunch50.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Peter_Thiel_TechCrunch50.jpg/440px-Peter_Thiel_TechCrunch50.jpg 2x" data-file-width="683" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>It’s good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>We're definitely onto something big. The need PayPal answers is monumental. Everyone in the world needs money – to get paid, to trade, to live. Paper money is an ancient technology and an inconvenient means of payment. You can run out of it. It wears out. It can get lost or stolen. In the twenty-first century, people need a form of money that's more convenient and secure, something that can be accessed from anywhere with a PDA or an Internet connection. Of course, what we're calling 'convenient' for American users will be revolutionary for the developing world. Many of these countries' governments play fast and loose with their currencies. They use inflation and sometimes wholesale currency devaluations, like we saw in Russia and several Southeast Asian countries last year [referring to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Russian_financial_crisis" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:1998 Russian financial crisis">1998 Russian</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Asian_financial_crisis" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:1997 Asian financial crisis">wikipedia:1997 Asian financial crisis</a>, to take wealth away from their citizens. Most of the ordinary people there never have an opportunity to open an offshore account or to get their hands on more than a few bills of a stable currency like U.S. dollars. Eventually PayPal will be able to change this. In the future, when we make our service available outside the U.S. and as Internet penetration continues to expand to all economic tiers of people, PayPal will give citizens worldwide more direct control over their currencies than they ever had before. It will be nearly impossible for corrupt governments to steal wealth from their people through their old means because if they try the people will switch to dollars or Pounds or Yen, in effect dumping the worthless local currency for something more secure. <ul><li>In a speech delivered at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:PayPal">PayPal</a> in 1999, as remembered by Eric M. Jackson in <i>The PayPal Wars</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I remain committed to the faith of my teenage years: to authentic human freedom as a precondition for the highest good. I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual. For all these reasons, I still call myself "libertarian." ... But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible... The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron. <ul><li>In <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian">an article</a> published by <i>Cato Unbound</i> (April 13, 2009)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Gay marriage can’t be a partisan issue because as long as there are partisan issues or cultural issues in this country, you’ll have trench warfare like on the western front in World War I. You’ll have lots of carnage and no progress. <ul><li>At <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2012/05/10/obama-minded-billionaires-mostly-quiet-on-same-sex-marriage/">a 2010 fundraiser</a> for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (September 22, 2010)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Most of our political leaders are not engineers or scientists and do not listen to engineers or scientists. Today a letter from Einstein would get lost in the White House mail room, and the Manhattan Project would not even get started; it certainly could never be completed in three years. I am not aware of a single political leader in the U.S., either Democrat or Republican, who would cut health-care spending in order to free up money for biotechnology research — or, more generally, who would make serious cuts to the welfare state in order to free up serious money for major engineering projects. ... Men reached the moon in July 1969, and Woodstock began three weeks later. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that this was when the hippies took over the country, and when the true cultural war over Progress was lost. Today's aged hippies no longer understand that there is a difference between the election of a black president and the creation of cheap solar energy; in their minds, the movement towards greater civil rights parallels general progress everywhere. Because of these ideological conflations and commitments, the 1960s Progressive Left cannot ask whether things actually might be getting worse. <ul><li>In <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/278758/end-future-peter-thiel">an editorial</a> published by <i>National Review</i> (2011)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters. <ul><li>quoted at <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://som.yale.edu/blog/peter-thiel-at-yale-we-wanted-flying-cars-instead-we-got-140-characters">Peter Thiel at Yale: We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters</a></i> (2014)</li></ul></li> <li>The university system in 2014, it's like the Catholic Church circa 1514... You have this priestly class of professors that doesn't do very much work; people are buying indulgences in the form of amassing enormous debt for the sort of the secular salvation that a diploma represents. And what I think is also similar to the 16th century is that the Reformation will come largely from the outside. <ul><li>In <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/peter-thiel/">an episode</a> of "Conversations with Bill Kristol" (2014)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It’s good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work. <ul><li>Forbes: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2014/09/10/peter-thiel-dont-wait-to-start-something-new/#3c8e20f71e69">"Peter Thiel: 'Don't Wait to Start Something New'"</a> (10 September 2014)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[The media] never takes [Trump] seriously, but it always takes him literally. I think a lot of the voters who vote for Trump take Trump seriously, but not literally. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.press.org/sites/default/files/20161031_thiel.pdf">Speech at the National Press Club</a> (October 31, 2016)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Confirm [the age of Apple is over]. We know what a smartphone looks like and does. It's not the fault of <a href="/wiki/Tim_Cook" title="Tim Cook">Tim Cook</a>, but it's not an area where there will be any more innovation. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nytimes.com/2017/01/11/fashion/peter-thiel-confirm-or-deny.html">Confirm or Deny: Peter Thiel</a> in <i>The New York Times</i> (January 11, 2017)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I think the <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a> is something that always has to be thought of in relatively concrete terms — and it has to be different from the present ... Only something that's different from the present and very concrete can have any sort of charismatic force. Looking at Western Europe, I would say, there are ... basically three plausible futures on offer. Number one is <a href="/wiki/Sharia" title="Sharia">Islamic sharia law</a>, and if you're a woman you get to wear a <a href="/wiki/Burqa" title="Burqa">burqa</a>. Number two is totalitarian <a href="/wiki/Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">AI</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_la" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:a la"><i>à la</i></a> China, where the computers track you in everything you do — all the time — and that's kind of creepy. So the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauron#Eye_of_Sauron" class="extiw" title="w:Sauron">Eye of Sauron</a>, to use the <i><a href="/wiki/Lord_of_the_Rings" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord of the Rings">Lord of the Rings</a></i> reference, is watching you at all times. And then the third one is hyper-environmentalism, where you drive an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorized_scooter" class="extiw" title="w:Motorized scooter">e-scooter</a> and you recycle. And even though I'm not a radical environmentalist ... if those are the three choices, I think you can understand why the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_politics" class="extiw" title="w:Green politics">Green Movement</a> is winning — because those are the three visions of the future we have. And the challenge on the conservative or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism" class="extiw" title="w:Libertarianism">libertarian</a> side is to offer something that is a picture of the future that's different from these two dystopian and one somewhat stagnant one. <ul><li><cite style="font-style:normal"> (September 23, 2019)"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRleB034EC8">Peter Thiel on "The Straussian Moment"</a>". <i>Hoover Institution, YouTube</i>.</cite> (quote at 39:02 of 47:25 video, recorded on September 5, 2019)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Zero_to_One_(2014)"><span id="Zero_to_One_.282014.29"></span><i>Zero to One</i> (2014)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Thiel&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Zero to One (2014)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Every moment in business happens only once. The next <a href="/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates">Bill Gates</a> will not build an operating system. The next <a href="/wiki/Larry_Page" title="Larry Page">Larry Page</a> or <a href="/wiki/Sergey_Brin" title="Sergey Brin">Sergey Brin</a> won't make a search engine. And next <a href="/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg" title="Mark Zuckerberg">Mark Zuckerberg</a> won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them.<br />....<br />Unless they invest in the difficult task of creating new things, American companies will fail in the future no matter how big there profits remain today. What happens when we've gained everything to be had from fine-tuning the old lines of businesses that we've inherited? Unlikely as it sounds, the answer threatens to be far worse than the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%932008" class="extiw" title="w:Financial crisis of 2007–2008">crisis of 2008</a>. Today's "best practices" lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried. <ul><li><cite style="font-style:normal" class="book" id="CITEREFThielMasters2014">Thiel, Peter A.; Masters, Blake (2014). <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Owc2nQEACAAJ&pg=PA1">Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or how to Build the Future</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780804139298" title="Special:BookSources/9780804139298">ISBN 9780804139298</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Zero+to+One%3A+Notes+on+Startups%2C+or+how+to+Build+the+Future&rft.aulast=Thiel&rft.aufirst=Peter+A.&rft.au=Thiel%2C+Peter+A.&rft.au=Masters%2C+Blake&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=9780804139298&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DOwc2nQEACAAJ%26pg%3DPA1&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Peter_Thiel"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span> (p. 1)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Zero to One</i> is about how to build companies that create new things. It draws on everything I've learned directly as a co-founder of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal" class="extiw" title="w:PayPal">PayPal</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies" class="extiw" title="w:Palantir Technologies">Palantir</a> and then an investor in hundreds of startups, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook" class="extiw" title="w:Facebook">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX" class="extiw" title="w:SpaceX">SpaceX</a>. But while I have notices many patterns, and I relate them here, this book offers no formula for success. The paradox of teaching entrepreneurship is that such a formula necessarily cannot exist; because every innovation is new and unique, no authority can prescribe in concrete terms how be innovative. Indeed, the single most powerful pattern I have notices is that successful people find value in unexpected places ... <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Owc2nQEACAAJ&pg=PA2">p. 2</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whenever I interview someone for a job, I like to ask this <a href="/wiki/Question" title="Question">question</a>: "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?"<br />This question sounds easy because it's straightforward. Actually, it's very hard to answer. It's intellectually difficult because the knowledge that everyone is taught in scholl is by definition agreed upon. And it's psychologically difficulty because anyone trying to answer must say something she knows to be unpopular. Brilliant thinking is rare, but <a href="/wiki/Courage" title="Courage">courage</a> is in even shorter supply than <a href="/wiki/Genius" title="Genius">genius</a>. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Owc2nQEACAAJ&pg=PA5">p. 5</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more. ... In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Owc2nQEACAAJ&pg=PA8">pp. 8–9</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>... the phenomenon of serial entrepreneurship would seem to call into question our tendency to explain success as the product of chance. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Owc2nQEACAAJ&pg=PA59">p. 59</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Just as the legal attack on <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> was ending <a href="/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates">Bill Gates</a>'s dominance, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Jobs" title="Steve Jobs">Steve Jobs</a>'s return to <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple</a> demonstrated the irreplaceable value of a company's founder. In some ways, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were opposites. Jobs was an artist, preferred closed systems, and spent his time thinking about great products above all else; Gates was a businessman, kept his products open, and wanted to run the world. But both were insider/outsiders, and both pushed the companies they started to achievements that nobody else would have been able to match. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Owc2nQEACAAJ&pg=PA187">p. 187</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Thiel&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin" title="Curtis Yarvin">Curtis Yarvin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_de_Jouvenel" title="Bertrand de Jouvenel">Bertrand de Jouvenel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Voegelin" title="Eric Voegelin">Eric Voegelin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patri_Friedman" title="Patri Friedman">Patri Friedman</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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