Peter Thiel: Successful Businesses are Based on Secrets | WIRED

[@wealthydetective1619]

My favorite QUOTE of the speach: "We live in a world where COURAGE is in shorter supply then GENIUS". So true.

[@BLUEGENE13]

I think it's terribly true for almost all of us, it's also just a very nice line too lol

[@JosedeJezeus]

If Thiel was courageous, he would research and speak on one of THE MOST fascinating scientific mystery: the UFO phenomenon. He’s a coward.

[@Victor...P1]

​@@JosedeJezeuswhy don't you research and bridge that gap.

[@JosedeJezeus]

@@Victor...P1 I’ve already dont the research on the UFO phenomenon. I even have my own explanation for the phenomenon. Want to hear it?

[@Victor...P1]

@@JosedeJezeus sure...

[@green8026]

Saying: "death is a natural part of life" Thiel's response: "it is at least as natural to fight it" That's a doer attitude if I've ever seen one. I applaud it!

[@thomasmadison3896]

So.....1. Try to get a monopoly on a market without looking like a monopoly to the government. 2. Get the timing right. i.e. time to enter the market and exit if need be. 3. Have a secret no one else has. i.e. a patented technology, a social angle, some kind of niche or secret that helps to form your monopoly. 4. Having the right team. Getting that well oiled machine up and running on all cylinders. Team first. 5. Foster an atmosphere of creativity, cooperation, and work hard, hard, hard. OK got it. Look out world.

[@aledmb]

Thomas Madison yeah, i've not found a single practical advice in this whole talk... waste of my time.

[@aledmb]

Connor Sumners well, i just agree with all that Thomas said above... it's good advice, if you're already in a very good position to succeed.

[@dimonai01]

Connor Sumners there was a time when he didn't know what an IPO is either..

[@dimonai01]

Connor Sumners i'm just pointing out that knowing what an IPO is doesn't make you a genius. but yes you're right, i think i misread your comment

[@jzk2020]

+Thomas Madison Thanks for saving me 60 min. of my time.

[@kamilmalek5528]

I really like how respectful and thoughtful the interviewer here is. You get so many talks where the interviewee can't really spread his wings because he has to work with trivial questions or where the whole talk diverges into smart jokes. Very good interview.

[@rickymcu]

Absolutely. And he let him talk. Didn’t interrupt him.

[@Texaglo.]

@@rickymcu yo, y

[@stephanemasse9972]

you made me think of Gary Vaynerchuk

[@vincentsnow8436]

You referenced ’smart jokes’ .. excellent observation on your part . Interviewers typically yield to their own egos with snappy- happy talk .. often an attempt to ingratiate themselves. online viewers often click through and move on when this occurs

[@swerve361]

@@rickymcu out

[@rickydrizzle9150]

This man is like an ever flowing fountain of wisdom. Listen to him, pure dense coherent wisdom, and not a single stumble while he's at it.

[@singhmaster4]

True that

[@shamusmichaelrichardduffey5353]

That's all true but he does stumble if we define stumble as saying, "um".🤣

[@uxbykilian3148]

Just because you stumble it doesn't mean that you lack wisdom

[@jayolsen1155]

Any books out there similar in quality to Zero to One? I loved it and I want more

[@infinitesigma6616]

Better living through Chemistry…

[@PlaneToTheBrainES]

Everytime I hear Peter Thiel I can't help but think how much reason he does have. This is truly gold.

[@jakekoehler9178]

Pic oopp on

[@tracysample6942]

He's a bonafide sociopath.

[@emmanueloluga9770]

@@tracysample6942 Define bonafide, and define sociopath

[@singhmaster4]

This guy doesn't waste a sentence. Full of knowledge. Like he is in the military giving orders. LOL! I like this guy.

[@senselessDesires666]

one letter away from THEIF🐷🐷🐷🐷🤕🤕🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🐷🐽POS. LIAR

[@kingcountyband]

A.I. ENVOY riiiiiiight 🤦🏼‍♂️🤡

[@StatusFX3]

His company Palantir is doing very well in the stock market. Its expected to 5x in the next few years.

[@coletivating]

14:00-15:00 he is talking about mastery of a field. Only through constant observation will nature reveal its secrets.

[@michaelsonsarmiento5943]

Goethe said nature only reveals herself to the apt, pure and true.

[@codecutner4902]

People don't like Thiel ,Cause he speaks the truth.

[@JosedeJezeus]

No. People, like me, don’t like Thiel, because he reeks of *EUGENICIST* ideology. He believes intelligence is coded in DNA. He believes the 1% are genetically superior. Sickening beliefs. Remember, *Eugenics was the cause of the Holocaust*

[@Sams911]

strange to think I went to high school with him, we were in the Computer club together ... I never paid him much attention ... bad decision.

[@davidg9469]

Really? I think most successful people are the ones nobody pays attention to.

[@nivrrtakr2891]

@@davidg9469 hmmm...I wonder why?

[@davidg9469]

@@nivrrtakr2891 well, this is not a general rule, but successful people tend to be the ones least likely to suceed, a.k.a the losers nobody paid attention in school.

[@Zo-hc2fn]

I am thinking about a new type of restaurants : eating-spots, in eating-spots, food keeps changing, chefs also rotate, this is opposed to current restaurants, thanks to this rotation of food and chefs, eating-spots are way more powerful than restaurants, along with that, there is an app, people vote for the food that will be cooked in the next days, menu is influenced by the live input of the people via an app.

[@Sams911]

@@Zo-hc2fn what does that have anything to do with my comment above?

[@VicRoseOfficial]

Peter Knew all the kinds of businesses in the future that would dominate the market. Invest in all stocks that are like the businesses he mentioned.

[@taihungau8696]

I clicked on this video thinking that there's no way I'm watching the whole thing... and here I am writing this comment after 1 hour 11 minutes and 11 seconds has passed...

[@sineadtbc3338]

Nice! I really respect Peter for sharing his ideas - he really did not need to and most of them do not.

[@Olehenry]

Agreed in respect for Mr Thiel's sharing. I would wager he plans sharings (like these) to be motivating & rewarding to the Founders in the long-run. Rewarding in the sense of fostering growth of broader and deeper driven ideas from narrowly-seeking entrepreneurs who come to Founders in search of expertise in turning the secrets into gold mines. In place of "low-hanging fruit", I wonder if he has coined a term for this new hidden "source" or method, etc. of revealing new secrets...

[@VladimirOnOccasion]

He's just a Bilderberg bot

[@Rafareismaretti]

Vladimir OnOccasion nope

[@polypus74]

Settings > Speed > 1.75

[@MilciadesAndrion]

This dissertation is very instructional. He discusses controversial points and provides questions and answers for different situation. Great video.

[@VOICEYOURMIND]

Listen, Learn, Research and Confirm. Decide for yourself and use wise council, studying and discernment to reach your conclusion. Don't let someone who speaks with authority have it because of their tone but give respect where respect is due. The rich are just men and make incorrect assessments daily. Use their words as council not the law.

[@friendlyone2706]

"We live in a world where courage is in shorter supply than genius." Courage has always been in shorter supply. In small community of a few thousand people, there are almost certainly at least a hundred people who are genius level. It is usually fear that keeps their presence almost undetectable.

[@chrisfaraday3924]

"Most people think competition and capitalism are synonyms, I believe they are antonyms"

[@classicboyir]

The questions that I can hardly answer is that Google, Facebook, (you name it) are not an example of zero to one as there were search engines, there were social media comps, etc. They came up with a much better way of doing search, or connecting people in a much better way in facebook. The other famous comment which is kinda against this argument is that no one remembers the first but everyone remembers the best.

[@ascensionblade]

One of his points in the book is that it is more important to be the "last-mover" than the first. Another point he makes is that the company must have a "secret" or something else that it can use to maintain its success. He might not get to it in this video, but I think he agrees with you.

[@begginercoding.3919]

@@ascensionbladePeter is a marvel. I still don’t understand how he encompasses every argument to make a point. When you are reading his print, you are like, wait, I disagree with this guy! Only for it to dawn on you that you are both on the same page. It’s awesome. 😊

[@richaunt0313]

Dear Peter, I have been reading your book these days~ So impressed and will follow your leading ideas for my business forward. I think you are the genuine entrepreneur and you have been the best mentor whom many youths want to follow~ -Best regards/Julie In, S. Korea

[@alisrasic7025]

Probably one of the best speeches heard in the last months...impressive toughs.

[@sineadward5225]

I just want more of him, I really do. He doesn’t speak half enough anymore.

[@jumpforjoy6]

Calm down Sinéad

[@lukemilton1964]

Peter Thiel is an amazing speaker! Awesome speech!

[@tracysample6942]

He's anti democracy and is using crypto to crash the dollar without the people's consent.

[@clints4049]

27:24 just when I thought Thiel wouldn't have anything interesting to comment on a topic he knocks another question-this one about SV founders and why they differ from others-out of the park.

[@makaylahollywood3677]

This man is someone i can relate to. Twitter is like hot air balloons in a computer.

[@royreyes8422]

thank you for laing out your playbook to world domination. much appreciated for sharing this vdeo. creativity is king.

[@jonathanjaviersayagohoyos7003]

After your own theories Mr Thiel, here some contrarian thoughts 1. globalization must slow down in order to improve innovation. Both concepts don't go well together think in the copycat problem. If a group of friends see each other every single day they will end up bored, they need to create divisions to explore and then come back with some news 2. we don't need too much further innovation to achieve wealth and happiness is more a problem of distribution of wealth that we need to tackle and employ technology for the best of the community and not for only one monopolistic group. From here that empowering technologies are flourishing. In oder words we don't need to oppress someone to achieve wealth. On the contrary we need to empower she/him. Think of a man who lives 1000 years, after all the social knowhow and wisdom he wouldn't have trouble being wealthy in any era of human history 3. the evolution of world civilization is actually predictable on the long time horizon so on that many visionaries have been able to do it, what is really difficult is to predict evolution on the short time horizon. This last statements go agains the principles of conventional forecasting and statistics. Thanks Mr Thiel for sharing with us that competition is for losers, though I believe many other people have known this secret for many years. I believe that when the great boxer Mayweather says: "hard work is easy work" he makes the same point 4. by definition many people will read my post won't agree which brings up the next point, democracy requires information technologies and artificial intelligence together in order to take us to the next golden era. The next breakthrough innovation must touch our political system!! The problem with it is that political sciences are not exact and therefore is difficult to achieve consensus. The only consensus we all may agree in is that the greatest bottleneck for innovation are regulations. It is a social integration challenge we are facing.

[@royreyes8422]

Jonathan Javier Sayago Hoyos it is a wild world. and i agree distribution of wealth is the key integrate social beliefs. we yet to figure out the general regulator like that of the UN

[@30framespersecond99]

Woow i agree with you fully. .

[@Myrslokstok]

He is so refreshing. - I mean witch military general spell out his strategie. - competition is bad of course.

[@dustinlee6797]

Peter thiel is my life long business mentor

[@vesrajbogati2156]

Same here. Would like to connect in FB?

[@sianacampbell3028]

27:45-28:15 Totally on point.

[@frankremi1860]

This man is a genius. His company Palatir will rule the world. Im in!

[@fabianhaglund5792]

I mean you always have to be critically set when listening to someone lay out their worldview, but my opinion is that Peter Thiel- as many others here have mentioned- does bring some very interesting points to the table. This however he managed to earn his money. Some smart people are rich, some are not. Some think a lot on these questions, others don't. My view.

[@momendaraghmeh7742]

what is the best way to make money from investing?

[@patrickrobert7356]

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[@dorianagonzalez1525]

I think the best way is to invest with a professional, at least it saves the trauma of too many losses This just surprised me because I also invest with Marley Rose.

[@AnkitSharma-kv8qj]

absolutely brilliant!! i work on macro strategy for firms and this guys is spot on!!

[@markharrison1689]

You are a genius Peter.

[@blahzndef]

I wish I had as much faith in private enterprise to conduct cutting edge science and fund capital intensive projects as Mr. Thiel. This guy really does not like big government.

[@friendlyone2706]

Do research on people who have gone from working in government to working in the private sector. From economist Thomas Sowell to engineers hired by Elon Musk the story is the same. Government 'progress' is typically like someone belly-crawling on a path, safely reaching the top of the hill. Private Industry is getting up and walking to the top of the hill. Brilliant private industry, runs to the top. The really brilliant, invents the motorcycle.

[@andybaldman]

His company Palantir does big data analysis for the government.

[@trampassmith6482]

At 4:33, when he pronounces hitherto “hit her toe”, is it accidental, a symptom of having read far more, or far more intently, than he has listened to human speech? Is it a joke of some odd sort? An intentional early error, so that he can forget about perfection and (and ther erby, paradoxically, achieve perfection)?

[@clintondonatus1696]

Love this poetic justice

[@rokyericksonroks]

Give us your pronunciation and then I’ll say whether Thiel was a joke or not.

[@ramrod2298]

That's interesting. There is a Warren Buffett video where he repeatedly pronounces the word hypocrisy as "HIGH-pocrisy" and I thought the same thing. These autistic geniuses can process so much by reading but lack some basic skills that come from being around other people.

[@helsontaveras7961]

27:00 peter can handle the business side

[@stuartnisbet4212]

I have to disagree regarding the 1914 to 1971 precis which entirely bypasses the Marshall Plan which both rebuilt and indentured Western Europe for ideological reasons i.e. anti communist.I'll mention also that the First World represents post industrial developed nations within the sphere of USA influence,the Second World represents the Communist Bloc and the Third World represents the undeveloped remainder not yet within either sphere.

[@bobbastian760]

....aaaand this audience didn't get the Star Wars reference. Also - for the UK audience, nice touch Peter changing the reference to British food to French food. Nicely done.

[@Gretev1]

The way he pronounces „hitherto“ at 4:33 cracks me up

[@food2430]

Gretev1 grow up

[@Gretev1]

M if by your understanding „to grow up“ means I may not indulge in a sense of humor then...no thanks!

[@andybaldman]

Aspergers

[@Wa7edmenalnass]

Summary: if you do what everyone does, you will get the results that everyone gets.

[@shadownoobnoobslayer5424]

worse than everyone else u are behind everyone else better to have something new and risky and be at 100% new market than be at 0.0000000001% of existing market that atm works and pays well... trick is its hard to be 1st at something hard to find inspiration to do new things inspiration dose not pay well atm

[@iliailiev908]

David Rowan is very good anchorman

[@afterthesmash]

Eric Weinstein: _3 rules for choosing an archnemesis_ (August 2019) * it should be somebody that you want to see in this world * it should be somebody that accepts you as their archnemesis * If you lose, you want them to win This is a tremendously hard list for the average person to satisfy. But I think the exercise is useful, nevertheless. Peter Thiel ticks me off with more of those boxes than most. Weinstein's mutuality requirement is a bit rich. Role models are typically a rung up the ladder, with a many:1 relationship to the rung below. True eye-level rivalries are pretty rare on the ground.

[@lucasbowering]

Thought experiment at 45 minutes, "what would you do if you were in the white house?" Thiel is in the white house now.

[@schedirvenus]

Finding the secret to immortality. That’s what I call thinking big enough, being a contrarian and not accepting limitations. It’s kind of a given that we have to die. Well maybe actually we don’t, and science can fix that.

[@Justin-qz9rs]

It's Peter Gregory!

[@barrettvelker198]

The framing of Diplomas as modern day indulgences really resonates with me

[@WamuyuGatheru]

the college and catholic church analogy is funny. I think humanities need a college ed. but sciences like engineering can be learnt from text books and independent labs. Humanities need debate. But yes, college is more a rite of passage than a tangible life investment

[@BigBrother04]

True. Science, engineering, medicine can be learned even on KZbin. College should only be for gender studies.

[@smallbluemachine]

This Peter Thiel fellow will go far! -That’s my prediction.

[@siddheshpatwardhan4920]

You, sir, are awesome at predicting the past

[@Jangimiau]

What an incredibly smart guy. Great interview!

[@johnnovotny4286]

"If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them." - PT on real entrepreneurs

[@lpfan540]

Some of the most successful people are nothing more than well dressed BS artists. "Picasso had a saying -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal' -- and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." - steve jobs

[@polymath6475]

Wow they were discussing a "bubble" in 2014. 2014 looks like growth was just starting compared to 2021. At least Thiel was smart enough to say it was in govt and not in tech.

[@rkvidekar]

awesome video!! thank you!!

[@afterthesmash]

15:00 I've come back to this after three years. Thiel has so far said two things that caught notice today differently than they would have when I first viewed this in 2019. _There's a lot of ongoing innovation in the digital space._ 1000% correct. He said this before AlphaGo and ChatGPT ruptured the fabric of the known universe. _I think the 21st century will be a peaceful century._ Not trending in a good direction. On early returns, couldn't be more off base. This was in my notes about Thiel: I'm consistently thrilled by half of what he says, while losing my eyebrows over the other half of what he says. His book is titled _Zero to One,_ which for me averages out to a batting average of 0.500. That's actually a pretty good batting average when you swing for the fences a whole bunch, which Thiel certainly does.

[@raymondwilliams6065]

It's actually irritating how smart he is

[@ccbsgful]

At least, he is honest, success is based on monopoly and secrets

[@johnowens22]

Just as money is not the root of all evil, but rather the love of money... So is a monopoly not bad, but rather a forced monopoly over raw materials or freedom. Google searches don't deny anyone life, food, water, shelter or happiness. If Google wants customers, they must make something people WANT to pay a lot of money for.

[@Jessrobbie]

It's pertinent to know that investment is essential to make more money. Right guys?

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[@YoungTeeke]

This is why ARRR pirate chain is soooo important. The only crypto private by default. Not to buy illegal things or drugs! It’s to keep your business dealing secret in a cashless society with open public ledgers

[@CCP-pb5ss]

4:12 "..tell me something that is true..that almost no one else agrees w/ you on" dude..this..& it applies to sooo many facts in general..but especially today most people are told what to think & like via mass commercial marketing when you hit them with something true but left field..they dont know wtf & that's the billion dollar resolution..giving 'em what they didnt know they needed

[@tensevo]

GOOGL paid £400M for Deep Mind. MSFT just paid £7.5B for Git Hub. Thoughts?

[@royreyes8422]

Mark Freeman scanners ... thats power

[@da_revo5747]

GitHub matters more and so is worth more. The buzz matters little

[@anonymusx505]

The foundation of money is metaphysical, is All mystical ...

[@prefect22]

P

[@Silvertestrun]

Thank you!

[@jenkinzbrown9519]

When you invest, you're buying a day you don't have to work

[@chrispaul3778]

Assets that can make you rich Bitcoin Stocks Real estate

[@indiaculture5166]

@Andy Chang It's not ignorance but due to some unprofessional broker in the market

[@cassiejacobs4197]

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[@thomasdooley3702]

Obviously trading in bitcoin is very volatile and risky to trade that's the reason most traders trade with a company

[@thomasdooley3702]

Learn and trade under a guide I do same and I hardly make losses in the market

[@cardmaverick]

He needs to dive into the difference between monopoly in the free market VS monopoly gained using government force. Most monopolies we have seen are the latter from, so not very representative of a true free market monopoly. Look into the role regulations played during the industrial revolution.

[@michuk007]

rambling on about the future of innovation...spellbinding. Great upload

[@afterthesmash]

19:00 Right back at you, Peter. Here's an uncomfortable truth: if all the old people born prior to 1950 would conveniently shuffle off their mortal coils overnight, most of your statistics of stagnation would go "poof" into the night sky. (Sure, every second residence would immediately become a distressed asset, but the millennials could simply move into their windfall digs by giving notice on their current pitbox flat, and you wouldn't have to value the fully detached gem against a down market.) One form of wealth that we now enjoy is having our parents alive deep into their "golden" years. Yet I'm pretty sure that the "value" of living septuagenarian or octogenarian parents is not quantified as a priceless asset on anyone's progress spreadsheet. If you subscribe to the "expressed preference" model of economic value, you'd have to assign a trillion dollars of concrete value on keeping our aging parents alive. Whatever the precise figure, it would be a large enough figure to tilt growth statistics out of the doldrums and into the 1972-esque MAGA black (not very far into the MAGA black, but enough to matter). Silicon Valley people don't take this analysis seriously, because they all want to think that age and experience correlate with delivered economic value on an indefinite basis. The last refuge of denialism is to hack death, and so we have in Silicon Valley a cult of life-extensionism. I was watching Jeff Hawkins last night explain the neocortex. It's amazingly malleable. On top of what I suspect is an underlying, irreversible kernel. Whatever special plasticity makes it possible to learn Chinese at age three is long gone. In machine learning terms, all these pickled "genius" brains continuing on into their second centuries of life would constitute the most potent local-minima trap that humanity has ever encountered, with an absolutely momentous term of human neuroplasticity permanently stuck in the 1950s (the original toddlerhood of all these pickled techno-sages). I suppose we could hack that, too. First you'd have to stimulate wild, tangled, random dendritic growth, then you'd have to reintroduce aggressive pruning. After undergoing this neural "therapy" do you remember who you once were? I'm far from sure about this. And then just what kind of weird semi-immortal creature have we really created? Mission uncomfortable, signing out.

[@bcr66]

Brilliant!

[@kristianbillionaireYe]

took down Gawker in such harsh manner. Much respect for such conviction.

[@GamerRoomDe]

Great man.

[@nbme-answers]

On the White House and science: “If Albert Einstein sent them a letter about new research they would lose it in the mailroom.”

[@skyisblue3847]

Paypal, Palantir, and Facebook are the best growth stocks

[@totpaster7977]

I agree This is the Time to find or create answers to problems and never worry about Income again🦄🌈💯🚀🙏🏿✝️

[@mikemcguire3676]

I bought some Palantir stock. After listening to Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, I am buying a lot more. Peter reminds me of a young Gates or Jobs. Palantir started at the military level, and proved itself in the most rigorous of conditions and demands. They JUST hired a sales force for their commercial product. I expect Palantir will be over $100 by mid-2021, and over $200 in 2022.

[@Mr.Monta77]

And you’d be wrong.

[@andybaldman]

Bag holder.

[@LearnThaiRapidMethod]

Funny. Hindsight is such fun: Palantir peaked at $34 start of 2021, dipped to $7 in 2023 and rallied to c.$28 mid 2024. Didn’t see anything approaching within $50 of the mid-2021 prediction, let alone the $200 killings in 2022. Remind me what was so special about this company and its stock?

[@Western_TV]

58:10 - "gets put on a floating country" is funny because they actually did that 😭😆

[@RyanJohnson]

So glad I develop in isolation.

[@michaeldemarco82]

Horizontal growth is not necessarily orthogonal to Vertical Growth in all contexts but I understand in the context of his semantic. I understand that vertical growth or technology implies newness and horizontal growth is globalization or copying. However, globalization is dependent on technology so its not orthogonal in all contexts. He smart but hes not a Gauss or Newton that is for sure.

[@sandeepvk]

What are the etiquettes of asking a question in an event?

[@chunkyMunky329]

Open your mouth, then generate noises from your larynx

[@sandeepvk]

Even to bark you need to do that !

[@rd264]

my new guru!

[@tonyaguirre1891]

7 minutes in and I get it. This is why he's a billionaire.

[@christinajane7311]

He’s got enough to pay social media influencers like you cause he’s a Trustifarian

[@sianacampbell3028]

1:10:28 Theme of life.

[@802reptiles4]

Thanks for posting,

[@snn517]

loved his view on college lol

[@pmmpmmpmm]

You put Liechtenstein, but not Canada?

[@chandradekeyser9173]

Great one on monopolies ! 👏🏻👏🏿

[@tombirmingham7033]

peter thiel "why me having a monopoly of power over you" is a good thing.

[@FastlaneProductions1]

Peter has pointed out that he believes all successful companies are monopolies. Even companies that appear to be competitors actually have some less obvious monopoly.

[@marchanselthomas]

0:11 an amazing honour to introduce pizza

[@adamrumball2582]

36:05 the something of somewhere is often the nothing of nowhere.

[@tico7654]

I thu=ink this man is a genius. but also he's got a lot of luck and got to know the correct people and to be born in the right spot.

[@eritafinds]

these shorts make my day

[@JunaidSalehHayat]

Thank you for sharing!

[@aadeshbaniya6182]

French-Nepalese cuisine..nice idea Peter!

[@nepinfo6635]

I was thinking about to open Nepalese African cuisine in Sydney Australia

[@aadeshbaniya6182]

@@nepinfo6635 really… I am a Nepalese guy in Australia. Do you want a collab? 😀😀😀

[@nepinfo6635]

@@aadeshbaniya6182 i live in Sydney too , from nepal . Actually I'm trying to find new ideas and next unicorn company. I'm happy to have a chat with you.

[@jaygatsby1]

The thumbnail at a glance looks like “An evening with Peter Thiel hosted by Christophah Moltisanti’

[@ankit19jha]

15:29 he is so wrong at the peace prediction in hindsight…

[@jaruissanz1299]

Competition Is For Losers... Best quote ever in the history of mankind.

[@Edgar-Friendly]

Coffee is for closer only.

[@ettoresabella8484]

The problem with monopoly is that they force you to pay what they want

[@michael57603]

that's a problem for the public, not the monopoly- that's Peter's point

[@marvinrobot962]

Lots of successful companies are copies of earlier companies..

[@Natharsus]

He’s referring to modern day major corporations like Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. He didn’t say you couldn’t become successful by copying someone else’s idea.

[@tensevo]

Key Insight: Science grew out of Philosophy, specifically, explicitly to solve the problem of mortality.

[@Rtpots]

Utility energy costs were much lower when there were no monopolies on them. Telecommunication costs could be lower too. Some moral libertarian that does not support competition and sells snooping software to local governments and foreign governments. Funny how he called Eric schmidt a propagandist in the past, because he really sounds like one as well

[@jwyn3085]

You clearly missed the type of monopoly he’s referring to..

[@joeyreddick6036]

wealth is vast but knowing is half the differance

[@LilGigiGabor]

I would like some practical advice as to how to move on professional after an absence of 4+ years? Transformation - does that mean I have to loose all that mattered? Still does? Customer focused person not money oriented but that becomes a byproduct of good service. Gill;Dx

[@carlosrios3215]

I can’t believe how this was published 7 years ago. Blink of an eye, really.