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Can you please elaborate on the large amount of evidence that he is not a genius? If you are going to cite some of his investment failures, then you also have
by ryporter 10y ago
Can you please elaborate on the large amount of evidence that he is not a genius? If you are going to cite some of his investment failures, then you also have to consider his successes, and the fact that he has, overall, been very, very successful.
He did not just have one good investment. He has had many, in addition to founding PayPal and Palantir.
- fundameen 10y agoHe has not had many successes. He's had a very few out of a great many. Like literally anyone with his connections and money could expect to have. The Facebook deal was dropped in his lap by Reid Hoffman due to a conflict of interest he had. Probably the most damning evidence of his lack of genius is when he pushed Zuckerberg very hard to sell Facebook at like $1 billion. He also sold PayPal early in a similar situation and has pushed other founders to sell early, though I forget the specific examples. This is very clearly not genius levels of vision. Thiel wouldn't be a famous billionaire today if Zuckerberg had listened to his advice. There's also the fact that Elon Musk showed us exactly what a real genius could do with his incredibly privileged position in the world.