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Wait, Peter Thiel is/was heavily involved in YC?
by sroussey 3y ago
Wait, Peter Thiel is/was heavily involved in YC?
- ep103 3y agoSauron does have a habit of consistently appearing, and consistently appearing where least expected.
- paulddraper 3y agoThiel is....Sauron? I missed something.
- ep103 3y agoI was saying this as a tounge-in-cheek way of calling Thiel evil. But also, Thiel is a LoTR geek, who took all of the wrong lessons from the novels, literally writing fan pieces that argued that Sauron was the good guy in LoTR to justify his personal authoritarian and fascist ideologies. Its literally why he named his company Palantir.
- lenerdenator 3y agoThey're all buddies. It's a industry/regional oligarchy. Part of the system is you cut the rest of "the club" in on deals. If you don't, you get what's happening here: lawsuits.
- Zanneth 3y agoMaybe a better way to say it is: when you’re investing millions of dollars in risky ventures, reputation is very important.
- lenerdenator 3y agoI'm thinking their reputations are a bit different in their heads than in reality.
- sroussey 3y agoJust look at their respective Twitter to know how to bin them.
- shbooms 3y agoyes for about 2 years (2015 - 2017) as a part time partner https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-peter https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-peter
- nuz 3y ago> ...part-time partners (we do that with Peter Thiei for exampie, though at this point he's very involved) From the quoted text above. I.e. more than part time partner (heavily involved)
- paulddraper 3y agoHe was a part-time partner, yes. (Back when they had part-time partners.) He's also part of the Paypal mafia along with Musk, btw.