Peter Thiel is ad-dicted to lecturing about how nonconformism precisely leads to effyoumony (in the 0->1 book he has a para or 2 about how the early PayPals wer

Peter Thiel is ad-dicted to lecturing about how nonconformism precisely leads to effyoumony (in the 0->1 book he has a para or 2 about how the early PayPals were all into bombmaking) but clearly his investment action is more nuanced: Zuck was not clearly contrarian, for example, nor was Peter into bombmaking. A more accurate take is VCs are looking for founders that seek to hire exceptional engineers. As usual, second order effects can be more illuminating, but at the expense of clickbaitiness