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Peter Thiel strikes me as a sucessful investor and deal-maker posing as an intellectual. His opinions carry a kind of gravitas in the Valley, but his constricte
by chmaynard 10y ago
Peter Thiel strikes me as a sucessful investor and deal-maker posing as an intellectual. His opinions carry a kind of gravitas in the Valley, but his constricted world view seems rather cold and one-dimensional.
- lhnz 10y agoThe reason he's considered an intellectual is that he has intellectual achievements. It's not posture since one can read his Wikipedia page and quickly realise that he's more intellectual than most other VCs. Likely better at Chess, Philosophy, etc.
- RichardHeart 10y agoHow many other billionaires have books out focused on getting you to start a business focused on something no one else is?
- namlem 10y agoExcept for the fact that he's never in tuned anything. He just rides the coattails of real inventors.