This is just a gutter hit-piece on Peter Thiel because he isn't falling in line like the rest of SV. There is zero actual substance here, the author takes a si

This is just a gutter hit-piece on Peter Thiel because he isn't falling in line like the rest of SV. There is zero actual substance here, the author takes a single anecdote from his book, interprets it to mean that Thiel thinks running a small business is not worthwhile and then proceeds to end with this: ----------------------------------------- Silicon Valley, too, is of two minds. There are those who recognize that their uniquely innovative culture is a precipitate of a lot of expensive long-term institutional investment on the part of governments, universities and corporations, and that to function in a democracy you need to worry about stuff you personally don’t think is important. And there are those who believe only in charisma and prowess, the blinding insight and iron will that get you from zero to one. ----------------------------------------- Silicon Valley isn't of two minds, it is of many; and no, the uniquely innovative culture isn't the sole result of expensive long-term institutional investment on the part of governments.