Peter Thiel

Bright, awkward and successful, Peter Thiel has risen to prominence in American society on the gamble that he can break it. A product of the Ivy League system who wants to take it down. A gay man who backs candidates that would degrade his civil rights. A hedge fund tech investor who thinks Silicon Valley hasn’t done anything innovative in 50 years. A Trump backer and advisor who walked away when he got what he wanted. Peter Thiel is known as a contrarian, but it may be simpler than that. He might just be a nihilistic prick.

RESOURCES
The Atlantic: Peter Thiel Hates a Copycat
ProPublica: Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank
Founders Fund: Portfolio
The Intercept: How Peter Thiel’s Palantir Helped The Nsa Spy On The Whole World
The Wall Street Journal: Tech Tycoon Peter Thiel Shies From Trump Re-Election Campaign
SEC: Palantir Technologies Inc.
Cato Unbound: The Education of a Libertarian
The Intercept: The New New Right Was Forged in Greed and White Backlash
Daily Beast: Blake Masters’ Views on Gay Marriage May Surprise His Political Master Peter Thiel
Max Chafkin: The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power

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[jx]

Thanks for this one. Hope it gets loads of eyeballs.

[ceritusorbis]

Sociopathic manchild is such a perfect way to describe people like Thiel.

[zacaharywood]

I like the idea of calling billionaires “the ultimate grifters”, it suits people like Theil.

[DwaynedPearce]

Thanks for this video, very informative 👍🏾

[soulfuzz]

The resentment in this rant is so thick you could eat it with a fork.

[ronpeter]

Excellent!. I nominate Harlan Crow for the next episode

[TheVincentKyle]

Thiel is a monster. If you wrote him as a Bond villain producers would reject him as not believable.

[hamishfullerton]

He sounds Dangerous🤔🤪 😅i didn't know anything about him, thanks for the info, just when i thought associations with South Africa, tech billionaire crazys influencing American politics stopped with Elon musk 😢

[TennesseeJed]

Pay Paul with Peter's borrowed cash.

[dolladrinx]

I don't understand the right wing interpretation of the lord of the rings. Tolkien was a socially liberal war veteran who wrote about the consequential actions of the small and overlooked, and uniting with other cultures to defend against oppressive tyranny. I just don't understand how billionaires and people leaning towards fascism can quote Tolkien with any authenticity.

[ParklngKills]

Perhaps next villain should be someone whose vision, ambition and legacy has had global impact and is still DOMINANT in the daily lives of everyone in the industrialized world, particularly U.S. citizens... Yep, that'd be Henry Ford.