How to pronounce“thiel”in English

Peter Thiel would be delighted.

So Thiel is a skeptic that the internet is more than a net positive, but not a big one, as he put it to me, which is a

Peter Thiel is in my book because he's one big figure out here, a libertarian, not my politics at all.

Peter Thiel: There is a lot that could be done with the market.

Peter Thiel: Technology and capitalism are very much linked.

Peter Thiel: Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains over a period of several decades for the developed countries.

Peter Thiel: It’s quite unclear where we are headed.

Peter Thiel: In the U.S., we fundamentally need to do new things, which I think is harder for the government to do.

Peter Thiel: Technology innovation is still...

Peter Thiel: The seasteading initiative that we’ve been talking about for the last few years is a bit of an experimental project.

Peter Thiel: Well the term we use is that people should stop out of school for two years.

Peter Thiel: Eduardo was one of the early people at Facebook.

Peter Thiel: I think the portrayal of the film is probably slightly too favorable to Eduardo and slightly too unfavorable toward the people who actually put in the incredibly

peter thiel versus larry summers versus moby and so you get to see people from very different walks of life talking about the same issue

Toots Thielmans, he's a jazz harmonica player, unbelievable.

It's only when Thiel's involvement that suddenly everything-- all the history is revised, and the entire narrative shifts, which in some ways, Thiel should have anticipated.

And that's the-- Thiel is, at that point, laying in wait for something like that to happen.

That's how Thiel kept his distance.

Did Gawker and Thiel's camp come forward with information, or did you reach out to them?

co-founded by Peter Thiel, who has a degree in philosophy and law.

And Peter Thiel give them half a million dollars, but says, well, who's this guy listed as your CFO who's not even here?

So Peter Thiel recently invested $6 million in a company called TransferWise, which does exactly that.

From Peter Thiel, whom you probably know is the founder of PayPal and the first outside investor in Facebook

- It's great to hear that Peter Thiel is fundamentally a diversity hire.

And when he got picked up at Thiel's Mountains, yeah, it was very poignant.

And those first few days after leaving Thiel's Mountains was very poignant.

But then that opened up Thiel's legal team to be able to go, OK, what research did you do before running this story?

who were willing to let Thiel back their case against Gawker.

He's-- he has a dinner with Thiel in Berlin in April of 2011.

When you're talking to Thiel, it's strange.

So that's one of Thiel's favorite quotes, which is why it's in the book, and it's from Raul Capablanca.

He actually dropped out to become a Thiel Fellow.

You've got a guy like Peter Thiel who came a bit later.

So whether you ask say Peter Thiel who views failure as always being a tragedy, there is no exception, it is not some aesthetic imperative or learning imperative necessarily.

Whether that's say Peter Thiel, so serial billionaire, certainly an incredible entrepreneur but also an incredible investor, good at betting on presidents it turns out as well.

But of course the Peter Thiels of the world and the Marc Andreessens, these people believe that if you just stay out of it, the market will eventually

He is chief of staff for Thielmann corps, 3rd Corps of the Prussian army.

So then how did Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel link up?

Yeah, so Thiel emailed me first because he'd read some of the-- I have a media column for the "Observer," which he had read,

It might almost send the opposite message that Thiel would want to say.

Peter Thiel talks about the current college education system, and he says it's almost like a nightclub, like if you expand it and allow more people in,

I mean, as Peter Thiel reminded us recently, you need the search for monopoly.

Peter Thiel: Well, I think that markets classically fail in cases where there are public goods that provide benefits that people cannot capture.

One of the funniest moments of my life is when my friend Peter Thiel and I were on the Meta board and these NASDAQ rules came down,

And the very professional attorneys at Meta explained with 100% complete straight face that Peter Thiel counts as diverse by virtue of being LGBT.

in the form of this new ETF launched backed by Bill Ackman and Peter Thiel that promises to keep politics and ESG concerns out

Actually, I went to a dinner at Thiel's house, sort of a victory dinner, when I was writing the book, which is in the hills, and Hogan was there.

But what happened was-- so in 2011, Thiel had embarked on this strategy of, OK, we think that, in Gawker's archives,

And so he was really the one that brought this plan to Thiel?