Peter Andreas Thiel (born October 11, 1967) is an American businessman, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and writer. He was ranked 4th on the Forbes List Midas List 2014, with a net worth of $ 2.2 billion, and No. 315 on Forbes 400 in 2017, with a net worth of $ 2.6 billion. He founded PayPal in 1999, serving as chief executive officer until selling him to eBay in 2002 for $ 1.5 billion.
Thiel was born in Frankfurt, and has German citizenship. He moved with his family to the United States as an infant, and spent part of his life in Africa before returning to the United States. He studied philosophy at Stanford University, graduated with a B.A. in 1989. He then went on to Stanford Law School, and received his doctorate in 1992. After graduating, he worked as a court clerk for Judge James Larry Edmondson, a securities lawyer for Sullivan & Cromwell, author of a speech for former US. Education Minister William Bennett and as a derivative trader at Credit Suisse before establishing Thiel Capital in 1996.
After the sale of PayPal, he founded Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund. He launched Palantir Technologies, a major data analysis company, in 2004 and continues to serve as its chairman by 2018. His Founder Fund, a venture capital company, was launched in 2005 along with PayPal partners Ken Howery and Luke Nosek. Earlier, Thiel became the first outside investor of Facebook when he acquired 10.2% of the shares for $ 500,000 in August 2004. He sold a majority of his stake in Facebook for over $ 1 billion in 2012, but remained on the board of directors. He also founded Valar Ventures in 2010 and operates as its chairman, founded Mithril Capital, where he is chairman of the investment committee, in 2012, and serves as partner at Y Combinator from 2015 to 2017.
Thiel is involved with various philanthropic and political activities. Through the Thiel Foundation, he arranged the Breakout Labs and Thiel Fellowship grant agencies, and funded nonprofit research into artificial intelligence, life extension and voyage. One of the founders of The Stanford Review, he is a conservative libertarian who is critical of excessive government spending, high debt levels, and foreign wars. He has contributed to many political figures, and provided financial support to Hulk Hogan in Bollea v. Gawker .
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Initial life
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Peter Andreas Thiel was born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany on October 11, 1967 to Susanne and Klaus Friedrich Thiel. The family migrated to the United States when Peter was one year old and lived in Cleveland, where Klaus worked as a chemical engineer. Klaus then worked for various mining companies, which led to the raising of Thiel and his younger brother, Patrick Michael Thiel. Mother Thiel is naturalized as a US citizen, but her father is not.
Before settling in Foster City, California in 1977, Thiels lived in South Africa and South West Africa (modern Namibia), and Peter had to replace primary school seven times. One of Peter's elementary schools, a strict stance in Swakopmund, requires students to wear uniforms and take advantage of corporal punishment, such as hitting students' hands with a ruler by mistake. This experience instilled a dislike for uniformity and regiment then reflected in Thiel's support for individualism and libertarianism as adults.
In his youth, Thiel played the Dungeons & amp; Dragon, is a faithful reader of science fiction, with Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein among his favorite authors, and fans of JRR Tolkien's work, declaring as an adult that he has read the Lord of the Rings more than ten times during his childhood. He has founded 6 companies (Palantir Technologies, Valar Ventures, Mithril Capital, Lembas LLC, Rivendell LLC and Arda Capital) whose name comes from Tolkien.
Education
At school, Thiel excelled in mathematics, and scored the first goal in a California-wide math competition while attending high school in San Mateo. At San Mateo Secondary School, he read Ayn Rand, admired Ronald Reagan's optimism and anti-communism, and delivered his graduation grade speech in 1985.
After graduating from San Mateo Middle School, Thiel went on to study philosophy at Stanford University. During the Thiel period at Stanford, the debate over political identity and political correctness was under way at universities and the program "Western Culture", criticized by the Agenda Pelangi as being too representative of achievements made by Europeans, replaced by "Culture, Idea and Value" alone, which encourages diversity and multiculturalism. This successor provoked controversy on campus, and led Thiel to establish The Stanford Review, a paper for conservative and libertarian point of view, in 1987, through Irving Kristol's funding.
Thiel served as Stanford Review's first editor-in-chief and remained at the post until he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1989, at which time his friend David O. Sacks became editor-in-chief. Thiel then went on to Stanford Law School and obtained a Doctorate in Law Science in 1992.
While at Stanford, Thiel meets Renà ©  Girard, whose mimetic theory influences him. Mimesis theory argues that human behavior is based on mimesis, and that imitation can lead to conflict without purpose. Girard notes the productive potential of competition: "It is because of an unprecedented capacity to promote competition within a boundary that has always remained socially, if not individually, acceptable that we have all the extraordinary achievements of the modern world," but declared that competition hinders progress after that becomes a separate goal: "rivals are more likely to forget about any object that causes the competition and instead become more fascinated with each other." Thiel applies this theory to his personal life and business ventures, stating: "The big problem with competition is that it focuses on the people around us, and while we get better at the things we strive for, we lose any view is important, or transcendent, or really meaningful in our world. "
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Careers
Initial career
After graduating from the Stanford Law School, Thiel worked as Judge James Larry Edmondson of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. Thiel was not successfully applied to the scribe with Judge Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court. After his appropriateness with Judge Edmondson, Thiel worked as a securities attorney for Sullivan & amp; Cromwell in New York. After seven months and three days, he left the law firm by mentioning the lack of transcendental value in his work. He then took a job as a derivative trader in a currency option at Credit Suisse, working there from 1993 while also operating as a speech writer for former US Secretary of Education William Bennett, before again feeling as though his work had no meaningful value and returned to California in 1996.
Upon returning to the Bay Area, Thiel noticed that the development of the internet and personal computers had changed the economic landscape and the dot-com boom went well. With financial support from friends and family, he was able to raise $ 1 million for the establishment of Thiel Capital Management and start a venture capital career. Initially, he suffered a setback after investing $ 100,000 in his friend's web-based project Luke Nosek's unsuccessful web calendar. However, his luck changed when Max Levchin, a Nosek friend, introduced him to a cryptographic enterprise idea, which later became their first attempt called Confinity in 1998.
PayPal
With Confinity, Thiel realizes that they can develop software to break loopholes in making online payments. Although the use of credit cards and expanding the network of automated teller machines gives consumers more payment options available, not all merchants can obtain the hardware required to accept credit cards. Thus, consumers are often left with little choice and instead have to pay with cash or personal checks. Thiel wanted to create this type of digital wallet in hopes of ensuring more consumer convenience and security by encrypting data on digital devices, and in 1999 Confinity launched PayPal.
PayPal promised to open up new possibilities for handling money, and according to Eric M. Jackson's account in his book The PayPal Wars, Thiel views PayPal's mission as a worldwide liberator of the erosion of their currency values ​​due to inflation. Jackson recalls inspirational speech by Thiel in 1999:
We're bound for something big. The need for PayPal's answer is very monumental. Everyone in the world needs money - to get paid, to trade, to live. Paper money is an old technology and means of payment that is not comfortable. You can run out of it. It's used up. It could be lost or stolen. In the twenty-first century, people need a more convenient and secure form of money, something accessible from anywhere with a PDA or Internet connection. Of course, what we call 'comfortable' for American users will be revolutionary for the developing world. Many of the governments of these countries are playing fast and loose with their currencies. They use inflation and sometimes the devaluation of the wholesale currency, as we have seen in Russia and some Southeast Asian countries last year [referring to the financial crisis of Russia and Asia in 1998], to take the wealth of its citizens. Most ordinary people there never have the opportunity to open an account abroad or to get more than a few stable currency bills like the US dollar. In the end PayPal will be able to change this. In the future, as we provide our services outside the US and Internet penetration continues to expand to all levels of people, PayPal will provide more direct control over the currency to citizens around the world than ever before. It is almost impossible for a corrupt government to steal the riches of their people through their old ways because if they try people will switch to dollars or Pounds or Yen, basically throwing away a local currency that is worthless for something safer.
When PayPal launched at a successful press conference in 1999, representatives from Nokia and Deutsche Bank sent $ 3 million in venture funding for Thiel using PayPal on their PalmPilots. PayPal then continued to grow through mergers with financial services company Elon Musk, X.com, and with Pixo, a company specializing in mobile commerce, in 2000. The merger allows PayPal to expand into the wireless phone market, and turn it into a more secure and more convenient tools by allowing users to transfer money through free online registration and email rather than by exchanging bank account information. From March to September 2000, PayPal spends $ 10 million a month to get new users. Until 2001, PayPal served more than 6.5 million subscribers and has expanded its services to consumers and private businesses in twenty-six countries.
PayPal went public on February 15, 2002 and sold it to eBay for $ 1.5 billion in October of that year. Thiel 3.7% stake worth $ 55 million at the time of the acquisition. Among Silicon Valley, Thiel is colloquially referred to as "Don of the PayPal Mafia".
Clarium Capital
After PayPal's sale to eBay in 2002, Thiel spent $ 10 million on its proceeds to establish Clarium Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund focusing on targeted and liquid instruments in currency, interest rates, commodities, and equities. Thiel states that "the great macroeconomic idea that we have in Clarium - idà © ê © e fixe - is a peak-oil theory, which basically is that the world runs out of oil, and that there is no easy alternative."
In 2003, Clarium Capital reflected a 65.6% return because Thiel managed to bet that the US dollar would weaken. In 2004, Thiel spoke of a dot-com bubble that had migrated, essentially, into a growing bubble in the financial sector, and assigned General Electric and Walmart a vulnerable party. In 2005, Clarium saw a 57.1% return because Thiel estimated that the dollar would rally. This success sees Clarium being honored as a global macro hedge fund this year by MARHedge and Absolute Return Alpha .
However, Clarium faltered in 2006 with a loss of 7.8%. During this time, the company sought to gain a long-term profit from its petrodolarnya analysis, which forecast a decline that would occur in the unsustainable supply of oil and bubbles growing in the US housing market. Clarium's assets under management indeed, having achieved a 40.3% profit in 2007, grew to more than $ 7 billion in 2008, but declined as financial markets collapsed in early 2009. In 2011, after losing economic rebounds, many the main investor pulls out, causing Clarium's assets to be worth $ 350 million, more than half of which is Thiel's own money.
Palantir
In May 2003, Thiel incorporated Palantir Technologies, a major data analysis company called Tolkien artifact, and continues to serve as its chairman by 2018. Thiel stated that the idea for the company is based on the awareness that "the approach that PayPal has used against incomplete fraud to other contexts, such as combating terrorism. "He also stated that, after the September 11 attacks, the debate in the United States was" will we have more security with less privacy or less security with more privacy? " and see Palantir capable of providing data mining services to government intelligence agencies that are maximally unobtrusive and traceable.
Initially, Palantir's sole supporter was the venture capital arm of the In-Q-Tel Central Intelligence Agency, but the company continued to grow and by 2015 was worth $ 20 billion, with Thiel being the company's largest shareholder.
In August 2004, Thiel made a $ 500,000 angel investment on Facebook for a 10.2% stake in the company and joined the Facebook board. This is the first outside investment on Facebook, and it put the company's valuation at $ 4.9 million. As a board member, Thiel is not actively involved in Facebook's daily operations. However, he provided assistance with organizing various funding rounds and Zuckerberg praised Thiel by helping him set the 2007 D Series of Facebook to close before the 2008 financial crisis.
In his book Facebook Effects , David Kirkpatrick describes how Thiel came to make this investment: Napster founder Sean Parker, who by then has taken over the post of "President" Facebook, is looking for investors for Facebook. Parker approached Reid Hoffman, CEO of social networking network LinkedIn. Hoffman likes Facebook but refuses to be a major investor because of potential conflicts of interest with his duties as LinkedIn CEO. Thus, Hoffman directs Parker to Thiel, whom he knows from their PayPal days. Thiel met Parker and Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard student who founded Facebook. Thiel and Zuckerberg got along well and Thiel agreed to lead the Facebook seed round by $ 500,000 to 10.2% of the company. The investment was initially in the form of a conversion record, which would be converted into equity if Facebook reached 1.5 million users by the end of 2004. Despite Facebook barely losing its target, Thiel allowed the loan to be converted into equity. Thiel said about his investment:
I feel comfortable with them pursuing their original vision. And that is a very sensible judgment. I thought it would be a pretty safe investment.
In September 2010, Thiel, while expressing skepticism about the growth potential in the consumer Internet sector, argues that relative to other Internet companies, Facebook (which then has a secondary market valuation of $ 30 billion) is relatively undervalued.
Facebook's initial public offering in May 2012, with a market capitalization of nearly $ 100 billion ($ 38 per share), at that time Thiel sold 16.8 million shares for $ 638 million. In August 2012, soon after the end of the initial closing period, Thiel sold almost all of its remaining shares between $ 19.27 and $ 20.69 per share, or $ 395.8 million, for a total of more than $ 1 billion. He retains his chair on the board of directors. In 2016, it sells just under 1 million of its shares for about $ 100 million. In November 2017 it sold another 160,805 shares for $ 29 million, placing its holdings on Facebook on 59,913 Class A shares.
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In 2005, Thiel created the Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital fund. Other partners in the fund include Sean Parker, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek.
In addition to Facebook, Thiel has already invested early on many startups (privately or through venture capital funds), including Booktrack, Slide, LinkedIn, Friendster, Rapleaf, Geni.com, Yammer, Yelp Inc., Powerset, Fusion Practice, MetaMed, Vator, Palantir Technologies, IronPort, Votizen, Asana, Big Think, Caplinked, Quora, Nanotronics Imaging, Rypple, TransferWise, and Stripe. Slide, LinkedIn, Yelp, Geni.com, and Yammer were founded by Thiel's former colleagues at PayPal: Slide by Max Levchin, Linkedin by Reid Hoffman, Yelp by Jeremy Stoppelman, and Geni.com and Yammer by David O. Sacks. Fortune Magazine reported that PayPal alumni have established or invested in dozens of startups with an overall value of around $ 30 billion.
In mid-2017 the Founders Fund bought a $ 15-20 million bitcoin. In January 2018, venture capital firms told investors that because of a cryptocurrency spike, its holdings were worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Valar Ventures
Through Valar Ventures, the internationally focused venture company he co-founded with Andrew McCormack and James Fitzgerald, Thiel is also an early investor at Xero, a New Zealand-based software company. He also invested in Pacific Fiber.
Mithril Capital
In June 2012, Peter Thiel launched Mithril Capital Management, named after the fictitious metal in Lord of the Rings, with Jim O'Neill and Ajay Royan. Unlike Clarium Capital, Mithril Capital, a fund with $ 402 million at launch, targets companies that are out of the startup phase and ready for improvement.
Y Combinator
In March 2015, it was announced that Thiel joined Y Combinator as one of 10 part-time partners. In November 2017, it was reported that Y Combinator had severed his relationship with Thiel. Quartz says: "While the details of the split between [Thiel] and [Y Combinator] remain unclear, a sudden change also highlights the differences of views.Tiel is Trump's most vocal supporter in Silicon Valley,... Principal YC , like president Sam Altman, has made a point to mention the threat posed by Trump. "
Philanthropy
Thiel did most of his philanthropic activities through a nonprofit foundation he created called the Thiel Foundation.
Philanthropy Theory
Thiel devoted much of his philanthropic effort to potential breakthrough technologies. In November 2010, Thiel held a Breakthrough Philanthropy conference that showcased eight non-profit organizations that she believes are working on radical new ideas in technology, government, and human affairs. A similar conference was held in December 2011 under the name "Fast Forward".
Research
Singularity
Thiel believes in the importance and desire of the singularity of technology. In February 2006, Thiel provided $ 100,000 in suitable funds to support Singularity Challenge's donations. (Later known as In addition, he joined the Institute's advisory board and participated in the May 2006 Singularity Summit at Stanford as well as at the 2011 Summit held in New York City.
In May 2007, Thiel provided half of the $ 400,000 funding that was suitable for the annual donation of Singularity Challenge donations.
In December 2015, it was announced that Thiel is one of the financial supporters of OpenAI, a nonprofit company that aims to safely develop common artificial intelligence.
Life extensions
When asked "What's the biggest achievement you have not yet accomplished?" by a discussion panel moderator at the 2014 Venture Alpha West conference, Thiel replied, "Of course, the area I really like is trying to do something to really get some progress in front of anti-aging and longevity," describing it as "a phenomenon too much researched, poorly invested [sic]. "
In September 2006, Thiel announced that he would donate $ 3.5 million to encourage anti-aging research through the nonprofit Methouse Foundation Mouse Foundation. He gave the following reasons for his pledge: "Rapid advances in biology predict the treasures of this century's inventions, including dramatically improved health and longevity for all." I support Dr. [Aubrey] de Gray, for I believe that his revolutionary approach to aging research will accelerate this process, allowing many people to live today to enjoy a much longer and healthier life for themselves and their loved ones. "In February 2017, he has donated more than $ 7 million to the foundation.
Thiel says that she is registered to be cryonically preserved, meaning that she will be subject to low temperature preservation in case of her legal death in the hope that she may be successfully revived by future medical technology.
Seasteading
On April 15, 2008, Thiel pledged $ 500,000 to a new nonprofit Rescue Institute, directed by Patri Friedman, whose mission is "to build a permanent, autonomous marine community to enable experimentation and innovation with diverse social, political and legal systems." This was followed in February 2010 by a subsequent grant of $ 250,000, and an additional $ 100,000 in matching funds.
In a lecture at the Seasteading Institute conference in November 2009, Thiel explains why he believes that the throwing is necessary for the future of mankind. In 2011, Thiel reportedly provided a total of $ 1.25 million to the Seasteading Institute.
Thiel Fellowship
On September 29, 2010, Thiel created the Thiel Fellowship, which annually gave $ 100,000 to 20 people under the age of 20 to spur them out of college and make their own efforts. According to Thiel, for many young people, college is the way to be taken when they do not know what to do with their lives:
I feel personally I am very guilty of this; You do not know what to do with your life, so you get a college degree; You do not know what you're going to do with your undergraduate degree, so you get a college degree. In my case, it is a law school, which is a classic thing someone does when not knowing what else to do. I have no great regrets, but if I have to do it, I will try to think more about the future than I did at the time... You can not get out of student debt even if you are personally bankrupt, it's almost like slavery is required, it is attached to your physical for the rest of your life.
Lab Breakout
In October 2011, the Thiel Foundation announced the creation of Breakout Labs, a grant program aimed at funding early-stage scientific research that may be too radical for traditional scientific funding agencies but also too long-term and speculative for venture investors. In April 2012, Breakout Labs announced its first set of recipients.
Other causes
The Thiel Foundation is also a supporter of the Committee to Protect Journalists, which promotes the right of journalists to report the news freely without fear of retaliation, and the Foundation for Human Rights, which hosts the Oslo Freedom Forum.
In 2011, Thiel donated NZ $ 1 million to the relief fund for victims of the Christchurch earthquake.
Political activity
Thiel is a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group, a personal annual meeting of intellectuals, political leaders, and business executives.
Support for political activism
Thiel, who himself is gay, has supported gay rights causes such as the American Foundation for Equal Rights and GOProud. He invited the conservative columnist, Ann Coulter, who was his friend, to Homocon 2010 as a guest speaker. Coulter then dedicates his 2011 book, Demonic: How Mob Liberals Are Threatening America , to Thiel. Thiel is also mentioned in the thanks of Coulter Ã,¡Adios, America!: The Left Plan for Transforming Our Country into a Third World Hellhole . In 2012, Thiel donated $ 10,000 to Minnesotans United for All Families, to fight the Minnesota Amendment 1.
In 2009, it was reported that Thiel helped fund the "Taxpayer Taxpayer" video of James O'Keefe's student - a satirical view of the Wall Street bailout. O'Keefe went on to produce a disguised undercover ACORN video but, through a spokesman, Thiel denied being involved in the ACORN sting.
In July 2012, Thiel donated $ 1 million to Club for Growth, a 501 (c) (4) conservative organization, the group's biggest contributor.
Support for political candidates
A libertarian, Thiel is a member of the Libertarian Party until 2016. He contributes to the candidates and causes of Libertarians and Republicans.
In December 2007, Thiel supported Ron Paul to become President. After Paul failed to secure the Republican nomination, Thiel contributed to John McCain's campaign.
In 2010, Thiel supported Meg Whitman in his failed attempt to become governor of California. He contributed the maximum allowable $ 25,900 to Whitman's campaign.
In 2012, Thiel, along with Luke Nosek and Scott Banister, put their support behind Endorse Liberty Super PAC. Collectively Thiel et al. gave $ 3.9 million to Liberty Support, whose goal was to promote Ron Paul to the presidency in 2012. On January 31, 2012, Endorse Liberty spent about $ 3.3 million promoting Paul by setting up two YouTube channels, buying ads from Google, Facebook and StumbleUpon, and build a presence on the Web. At the 2012 Republican National Convention, Thiel held a private meeting with delegates to Rand Paul and Ron Paul to discuss the "future of the Liberty Movement." After Ron Paul again failed to secure a Republican nomination for president, Thiel contributed to presidential ticket Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan in 2012.
Thiel initially supported Carly Fiorina's campaign during the 2016 GOP presidential election. After Fiorina left, Thiel supported Donald Trump and became one of the promised California delegates to the Trump nomination at the 2016 National Convention of Republicans. He also became the keynote speaker during the convention, that he is "proud to be gay". On October 15, 2016, Thiel announced a $ 1.25 million donation to support Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Thiel told The New York Times: "I did not give her money for a long time because I did not think it was important, and then the campaign asked me to do it." After Trump's victory, Thiel was appointed as the executive committee of the elected Presidential transition team.
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Gawker Lawsuit
In May 2016, Thiel asserted in an interview with The New York Times that he had paid $ 10 million in legal fees to finance several lawsuits filed by others, including a lawsuit by Terry Bollea ("Hulk Hogan ") against Gawker Media for a privacy invasion, the deliberate suffering of emotional distress, and a violation of the rights of personality after Gawker made a public part of a sex tape involving Bollea. The jury awarded Bollea $ 140 million, and Gawker announced it permanently closed its doors due to a lawsuit in August 2016. Thiel refers to his financial support for the Bollean case as one of "greater philanthropic actions I have done."
Thiel said he was motivated to sue Gawker after they published a publicly published 2007 article, entitled "Peter Thiel is really gay, people". Thiel stated that Gawker's article about other people, including his friends, had "ruined people's lives for no reason," and said, "It's less about revenge and more about special denial." Responding to criticism that funding his lawsuit against Gawker could restrict press freedom, Thiel cites his contribution to the Committee to Protect Journalists and stated, "I refuse to believe that journalism means a massive privacy violation.I think it is much higher than that of journalists. respecting journalists who I do not believe they are threatened by fighting Gawker. "
On August 15, 2016, Thiel published an opinion on The New York Times where he argued that his defense of online privacy exceeded Gawker. He highlighted his support for the Intimate Privacy Protection Act, and said that athletes and business executives have the right to stay in the closet as long as they want.
Personal life
Citizenship
A German citizen from birth and a naturalized American citizen, Thiel became a New Zealander in 2011, although this is not published until 2017. By 2015, he purchased a 193-acre estate near Wanaka, which corresponds to the classification of "sensitive land" "and required foreign buyers to get permission from New Zealand's Foreign Investment Office Thiel did not need a permit because he was a citizen He had received a permanent residency in New Zealand in 2007 but visited the country only four times before an application for citizenship, and has spent 12 days in New Zealand, rather than the typical residency requirement of 1350 days.As she enrolled, she also stated that she had no intention of living in New Zealand, which is a criterion for citizenship.Name-Interior Minister Nathan Guy freed the normal requirements this, under the clause of the "Citizenship Law" g amazing. Thiel's application cites his contribution to the economy - he has set up venture capital funds in Auckland before applying, and invests $ 7 million in two local companies - as well as a $ 1 million donation for the 2011 Christchurch earthquake appeal. Rod Drury, founder of Xero, also provides references official for Thiel app. Thiel's case was quoted by critics as an example that New Zealand passports could be bought, something the New Zealand government rejected.
Religious view
Thiel is a self-described Christian and a Christian anthropologist Renà © à © Girard. He grew up in an evangelical household but, in 2011, described his religious beliefs as "somewhat heterodox," and stated: "I believe Christianity is true but I do not feel the urgent need to convince others about it."
During his time at Stanford University, Thiel attended a lecture given by Renà ©  Girard. Girard, a Catholic, explains the role of sacrifice and the scapegoat mechanism in resolving social conflict, which appeals to Thiel as it offers the basis for his Christian faith without the fundamentalism of his parents.
Chess
Former chess chess player, Thiel started playing chess at the age of 6, and in 1979 was ranked seventh US chess player under the age of 13. According to ChessBase, he is also "one of the highest ranked players in the 21st in the country" in a single period of time. He achieved a USCF ranking peak of 2342 in 1992, and holds a Master Life degree. His FIDE rating is 2199 in 2017, although he no longer participates in the tournament.
On November 30, 2016, Thiel made the first ceremonial movement in the 2016 World Chess Championship tie-break between Sergey Karjakin and Magnus Carlsen.
Media appearance
Thiel is an occasional commentator on CNBC, after appearing on both Closing Bell with Kelly Evans and Squawk Box with Becky Quick. She has been interviewed twice by Charlie Rose on PBS. She has also contributed articles for The Wall Street Journal First Things ,
In Social Network , Thiel is portrayed by Wallace Langham. He described the film as "wrong on many levels".
Thiel is the inspiration for the character of Peter Gregory at HBO's Silicon Valley . Thiel said of Gregory, "I like him... I think eccentric is always better than evil".
Jonas LÃÆ'¼scher stated in an interview with Basellandschaftliche Zeitung that he based the character of Tobias Erkner in his novel Kraft ("Force") on Thiel.
In 2018, Thiel appeared on Reid Hoffman's podcast Master of Scale , discussing the strategies adopted by PayPal to scale.
Awards and honor
Thiel received a co-producer credit for Thank You for Smoking, a feature film of 2005 based on Christopher Buckley's 1994 novel of the same name.
Pada 2006, Thiel memenangkan Herman Lay Award for Entrepreneurship.
In 2007, he was honored as the Young Global leader by the World Economic Forum as one of the 250 most famous leaders aged 40 and under.
On November 7, 2009, Thiel was awarded the honorary title of Universidad Francisco Marroquin.
In 2012, Students For Liberty, an organization dedicated to spreading libertarian ideals on campuses, awarded Thiel the "Alumnus of the Year" award.
In February 2013, Thiel received the TechCrunch Crunchie Award for Venture Capitalist of the Year.
Publish a book
The Myth of Diversity
In 1995, the Independent Institute published the Myth of Diversity: Multiculturalism and Politics of Intolerance at Stanford, written by Thiel with David O. Sacks, and by his introduction by the late Emory University historian Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. The book is critical of political correctness and multiculturalism in higher education and the dilution of the consequences of academic rigor. Thiel and Sacks's writing drew criticism from the later Provost-Stanford (and then George W. Bush's National Security Advisor) Condoleezza Rice, with Rice joining then-Stanford President Gerhard Casper in describing Thiel and Sacks's view of Stanford as "cartoon, not a description our new student curriculum "and their comments as" incitement, pure and simple. "
In 2016, Thiel apologizes for the two statements he made in the book: 1) "The purpose of the rape crisis movement seems to be the same about maligning men as about raising awareness" and 2) "But since multicultural rape allegations may not show nothing more than regretting late, a woman may 'realize' that she has been 'raped' the next day or even a few days later. "She states:" More than two decades ago, I wrote a book with some statements that did not sensitive and rude.As I said before, I hope I will never write those things.I'm sorry for it.all forms are evil.I'm sorry to write the part that has been taken to suggest otherwise. "
Zero to One
In Spring 2012, Thiel taught CS 183: Startup at Stanford University. The entry for the course, taken by Blake Masters students, leads to a book titled Zero to One by Thiel and Masters, released in September 2014.
Derek Thompson, writing for The Atlantic , declared Zero to One "probably the best business book I've ever read." He described it as "a self-help book for entrepreneurs, full of bromides" but also as "the articulation of capitalism and clear and profound success in 21st century economics."
References
Bibliography
- Packer, George (2013), The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN : 978-0374102418
External links
- Appearance in C-SPAN
- Peter Thiel on Twitter
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