American - Businessman | October 11, 1967 -
When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.
Peter Thiel
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If you're trying to develop a new drug, that costs you a billion dollars to get through the FDA. If you want to start a software company, you can get started with maybe $100,000.
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Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.
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One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.
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I don't think success is complicated; if you do something that works, then it's a success.
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I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.
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As an undergraduate at Stanford, I started 'The Stanford Review,' which ended up being very engaged in the hot debates of the time: campus speech codes, questions about diversity on campus, all sorts of debates like that.
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I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.
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Technologies like PayPal foster competition because they enable people to shift their funds from one jurisdiction to another, and I think that ultimately will lead to a world in which there's less government power and therefore more individual control.
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Anti-aging is an extremely under-explored field.
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Great investments may look crazy but really may not be.
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People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.
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