Peter Thiel is taking a break from democracy.
This reporter from The Atlantic had rare access to Thiel. Why? “He wanted me to publish a promise he was going to make, so that he would not be tempted to go back on his word. And what was that […]
This reporter from The Atlantic had rare access to Thiel. Why? “He wanted me to publish a promise he was going to make, so that he would not be tempted to go back on his word. And what was that […]
“Thin, dyspeptic, and humorless, he had seemed like an alien to his classmates since arriving at Stanford two and a half years earlier. He didn’t drink, didn’t date, didn’t crack jokes, and he seemed to possess both an insatiable ambition […]
“A few hundred years ago, Cosimo Medici kickstarted a financial empire. At that same time he began a grand tradition of patronage, of Donatello most notably.” His kids provided patronage to Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Where have all the […]
“Peter Thiel’s former portfolio manager says that the crypto narrative is built on half-truths and a nonchalance about the security provided by the nation-state.” | learn more
Thiel lays out his 2×2 matrix: pessimist vs optimist, determinate vs indeterminate. It starts out a little obscure, but once he fills in examples it really drives his point home. I found his description of the circular investment flows in […]
Last week I shared a compilation of Peter Thiel quotes on progress and stagnation. This week, we have a similar compilation of Naval Ravikant’s words. | learn more
Peter Thiel is an outsized character even by Silicon Valley standards. He believes we’re in an era of technological stagnation. “This document consists only of direct quotes from Thiel, lightly edited for clarity (except for headings and where marked otherwise).” | learn […]
Fundraising in the space isn’t the interesting part here. Instead, that caught my eye is that Layer1 uses the approach of capital PLUS other support. This reminds me of Multicoin Capital’s writing on the topic. |learn more