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'Peter Thiel' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

The Social Network (2010)

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Plot
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

Keywords: 2000s, algorithm, alienation, ambition, ambivalence, anger, anti-materialism, apology, arrest, arrogance

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You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies

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Marylin Delpy: The site got twenty-two hundred hits within two hours?::Mark Zuckerberg: Thousand.::Marylin Delpy: I'm sorry?::Mark Zuckerberg: Twenty-two *thousand*.::Marylin Delpy: [to herself] Wow.

Sean Parker: Drop the "The." Just "Facebook." It's cleaner

Mark Zuckerberg: You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg: As for any charges stemming from the breach of security, I believe I deserve some recognition from this board.::Ad Board Chairwoman: I'm sorry?::Mark Zuckerberg: Yes?::Ad Board Chairwoman: I don't understand.::Mark Zuckerberg: Which part?

Gage: Mr. Zuckerberg, do I have your full attention?::Mark Zuckerberg: [stares out the window] No.::Gage: Do you think I deserve it?::Mark Zuckerberg: [looks at Gage] What?::Gage: Do you think I deserve your full attention?::Mark Zuckerberg: I had to swear an oath before we began this deposition, and I don't want to perjure myself, so I have a legal obligation to say no.::Gage: Okay - no. You don't think I deserve your attention.::Mark Zuckerberg: I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try - but there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention - you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing.::[pauses]::Mark Zuckerberg: Did I adequately answer your condescending question?

K.C.: Seven different people spammed me the same link.::KC's Friend: What is it?::K.C.: I don't know, but I'm really hoping it's cats that look like Hitler, because I can never get enough of that.

Erica Albright: You called me a bitch on the Internet, Mark.::Mark Zuckerberg: That's why I wanted to talk to you.::Erica Albright: On the Internet.::Mark Zuckerberg: That's why I came over.::Erica Albright: Comparing women to farm animals.::Mark Zuckerberg: I didn't end up doing that.::Erica Albright: It didn't stop you from writing it. As if every thought that tumbles through your head was so clever it would be a crime for it not to be shared. The Internet's not written in pencil, Mark, it's written in ink. And you published that Erica Albright was a bitch, right before you made some ignorant crack about my family's name, my bra size, and then rated women based on their hotness.::Reggie: Erica, is there a problem?::Erica Albright: [Turning to talk to Reggie] No, there's no problem.::Erica Albright: [Turning back to face Mark] You write your snide bullshit from a dark room because that's what the angry do nowadays. I was nice to you, don't torture me for it.::Mark Zuckerberg: If we could just go somewhere for a minute.::Erica Albright: I don't want to be rude to my friends.::Mark Zuckerberg: Okay.::Erica Albright: Okay.::[pauses for a moment]::Erica Albright: Good luck with your video-game.

Mark Zuckerberg: I went to my friend for the money because that's who I wanted to be partners with. Eduardo was the president of the Harvard Investors Association, and he was also my best friend.::Gage: Your best friend is suing you for six hundred million dollars.::Mark Zuckerberg: [Sarcastically] I didn't know that, tell me more.

Erica Albright: You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.

Eduardo Saverin: They're saying, the Winklevoss twins are saying that you stole their idea.::Mark Zuckerberg: I find that to be a little more than mildly annoying.::Eduardo Saverin: Oh? Well, they find it to be intellectual property theft. Why didn't you show this to me?::Mark Zuckerberg: [flippantly] It was addressed to me.::Eduardo Saverin: They're saying that we stole theFaceBook from Divya Narendera and the Winklevosses.::Mark Zuckerberg: [trying to grab the letter out of Eduardo's hands] I know what it says!::Eduardo Saverin: Did we?::Mark Zuckerberg: Did we what?::Eduardo Saverin: Don't screw around with me now. Look at me!::Mark Zuckerberg: [Mark begrudgingly looks up at him]::Eduardo Saverin: The letter says we could face legal action.::Mark Zuckerberg: No, it says I could face legal action.::Eduardo Saverin: This is from a lawyer Mark, they must feel they have some grounds.::Mark Zuckerberg: The lawyer is their father's house council!::Eduardo Saverin: Do they have grounds?::Mark Zuckerberg: The grounds are our thing is cool and popular and HarvardConnection is lame! Wardo, I didn't use any of their code, I promise. I didn't use anything! Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.::Eduardo Saverin: Why didn't you show me this letter?::Mark Zuckerberg: I didn't think it was a big deal.::Eduardo Saverin: [sighs before sitting down beside Mark] Okay, if there's something wrong. If there's ever anything wrong, you can tell me, I'm the guy that wants to help. This is OUR thing. Now, is there ANYTHING that you need to tell me?::Mark Zuckerberg: [very pointedly] No.

Thiel, Peter Filmography

Rami og Julie
1988, role: actor
Manden i månen
1986, role: actor , character name: Johannes

Thiel, Peter Filmography

Thank You for Smoking
2005, role: producer

Famous quotes by Peter Thiel:

"It's a really good time to be an entrepreneur. If you have a halfway decent idea, you can get it completely funded."

"[In the book's first chapter, Jackson recalls a speech Thiel gave to Confinnity employees, just a few days after he began work, in which he described his hopes for PayPal to become a borderless private currency. He saw PayPal facilitating trade in currency for anyone with an Internet connection by enabling an instant transfer of funds from insecure currencies to more stable ones, such as U.S. dollars. Thiel explained to his young staff how governments had historically robbed their own citizens through inflation and currency devaluation. The very rich could always protect themselves by investing offshore. It's the poor and middle class, Thiel explained, who get screwed.] PayPal will give citizens worldwide more direct control over their currencies than they ever had before, ... It will be nearly impossible for corrupt governments to steal wealth from their people through their old means because if they try the people will switch to dollars or pounds or yen, in effect dumping the worthless local currency for something more secure."

"Hubris is an issue at every one of these Silicon Valley companies that are successful. I don't know if it's any worse at Google than it's been at other highly successful technology companies."

"I think it's a problem that we don't have more companies like Facebook. It shouldn't be the only company that's doing this well."

"I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion."

"In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem."

"Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone."

"In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today."

"People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why."

"I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system."

Imagining the Future, Innovation and God: N.T. Wright and Peter Thiel in San Francisco

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Updated: 15 Jun 2015

http://www.veritas.org/talks - The Veritas Forum in San Francisco, 2015 Full library available AD FREE at http://www.veritas.org/talks. Over the past two decades, The Veritas Forum has been hosting vibrant discussions on life's hardest questions and engaging the world's leading colleges and universities with Christian perspectives and the relevance of Jesus. Learn more at http://www.veritas.org, with upcoming events and over 600 pieces of media on topics including science, philosophy, music, business, medicine, and more!

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Peter Thiel: being contrarian & right, AI, Elon, drug reform, overrated trends & wealth polarization

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Duration: 49:34
Updated: 16 Mar 2015

Peter Thiel is one of the most considered, intelligent, and successful minds we have in this generation of Silicon Valley. Peter is a serial company founder (PayPal, Palantir), billionaire investor (first outside investor in Facebook and 100+ others), and author of "Zero to One." Peter’s first startup was PayPal, which he co-founded in 1998 and led to a $1.5 billion acquisition by eBay in 2002. He is now the Managing Partner at Founder’s Fund, a venture capital fund with $2 billion in assets. At LAUNCH festival 2015, Peter sat down with Jason and opened up about investing (as a contrarian and being right), monopolies and governments, why trends are overrated, how Elon Musk pulled off Tesla and SpaceX at the same time, whether we should be scared of Artificial Intelligence or not, should marijuana be legal, and what you should do if you hear the words “big data” and “cloud computing” during a pitch (hint: run!). You aren’t going to want to miss this one! Never miss an episode! Subscribe in iTunes: Audio (http://bit.ly/TwiStA) || Video (http://bit.ly/TwiStV) Full show notes: http://goo.gl/bUF2PD ============== Thanks to our sponsors. Click here to tweet your support (can edit before sending): http://ctt.ec/G5d94 Scott Walker at Walker Corporate Law. Scott loves startups and shows it, with fixed-fee pricing. Have a question? Email him directly, scott@walkercorporatelaw.com, and tell him Jason sent you. PagerDuty serves as the hub of your operations, aggregating all of your infrastructure monitoring tools and alerting the right people & teams at the right time. Sign up today for a free 14-day trial at pagerduty.com/twist. ============== Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/peterthiel http://www.twitter.com/foundersfund http://www.twitter.com/jason http://www.twitter.com/twiStartups Launch Ticker: http://launch.co Launch Festival: http://festival.launch.co Special thanks to the members of the TWiST Backchannel Program! Show notes powered by CastScoop. Subscribe here: www.CastScoop.com Top Show Links On Facebook On Palantir On Investing Rules On Investing On Monopolies and Governments On Future Trends On Young Entrepreneurs On Android Vs. iOS On Conflict On Being Contrarian and Right On Tesla and SpaceX On the PayPal Mafia On Artificial Intelligence On Technology Replacing Jobs On Drug Reform On Polarization of Wealth

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Peter Thiel: successful businesses are based on secrets

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Updated: 30 Sep 2014

Speaking with Wired magazine editor David Rowan in London at an event on 25 September, Thiel said that "uniqueness", "secrets", and a monopoly on the marketplace were the key to successful startups.

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Conversations with Tyler: Peter Thiel on the Future of Innovation

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Updated: 02 Apr 2015

Peter Thiel and Tyler Cowen, both New York Times bestselling authors, are among today’s top global thought leaders and influential innovators. Watch as these two engage in a serious dialogue on the ideas and policies that will shape the future of innovation and progress in the coming years and decades. Peter Thiel is among the most impressive innovators of the past two decades. As co-founder of Paypal and seed-funder for Facebook, Thiel has been instrumental in the conception and growth of some of today’s most entrepreneurial and innovative companies. In his latest best-selling book, Zero to One, Thiel explains how to build a better future by capitalizing on innovation. A staunch optimist, he maintains that progress can be achieved anywhere the human mind is able to think creatively. Thiel describes how entrepreneurial thinking leads to innovation, which builds something new and moves the mark from zero to one.

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PAYPAL MAFIA: Reid Hoffman & Peter Thiel's Master Class in China

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Updated: 03 Jun 2015

Is there a bubble in Silicon Valley, what’s LinkedIn’s next step in trying to crack the lucrative China market and what’s the best way to pick an investment? Those were some of the questions answered by PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel and LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman during tonight’s Master Class at CEIBS Shanghai Campus. As members of the PayPal Mafia, a group of investors that have a hand in many of the world’s most successful tech-related enterprises (dubbed Unicorns), they had the answers. In fact the topic of their speech was “PayPal Mafia China Reunion: The Secret of Unicorns”.

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Teppo Felin in conversation with Peter Thiel

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Updated: 01 May 2015

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Zero to One: A Discussion with Peter Thiel

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Duration: 59:24
Updated: 11 Feb 2015

The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page won’t be making a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. Paypal co-founder and author of Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel says the question to ask is not,“What Mark would do?” Instead, entrepreneurs of the digital age must ask: “What great business is nobody building?” Join Peter Thiel as he discusses how to build a company that moves beyond innovating off existing products and ideas, and instead creates something entirely new.

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Zero to One: Peter Thiel speaks at USC Annenberg

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Updated: 23 Jan 2015

Peter Thiel speaks at Usc Annenberg

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Part 1 of 4: Peter Thiel and Niall Ferguson –The Alan Howard Foundation / JW3 Speaker Series

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Updated: 21 May 2015

The Alan Howard Foundation / JW3 Speaker Series presents Peter Thiel in conversation with Niall Ferguson. View upcoming events at https://www.ahf-jw3series.com/ On April 29th, PayPal founder and Facebook director Peter Thiel told a sell-out audience at the JW3 cultural centre how to spot the next Mark Zuckerberg. Harvard University Professor of History and author, Niall Ferguson, interviewed Thiel for this seventh talk in the Alan Howard Foundation/ JW3 Speaker Series. Globalisation, technology, education and politics were among themes he raised with the American entrepreneur. Thiel was the first outside investor in Facebook, and early on in the talk Ferguson asked him how investors could spot the next Zuckerberg. Thiel said investors ought to focus on businesses run by competent people and with few competitors.“Always aim for a monopoly,” he said, “capture a small market and grow it over time. Facebook went from zero to 60 per cent market share in ten days.” Later in the discussion, Thiel gave further investment advice by saying the more investors an enterprise has, the more likely it is to be overhyped. And he recommended that people who wanted to start their own business needed to be idiosyncratic: do something you like, you’re good at and few others are doing. Although Thiel has a BA and Law degree from Stanford, he left law the law firm he worked at after only seven months and three days, saying it was like Alcatraz. Too many people attend college for negative reasons he believes."People see it as an insurance product, a defence against falling through the cracks, not as an investment”, he said. Asked about his politics Thiel said he was fiscally conservative and socially liberal, but said power was with the bureaucrats, not politicians, so there was little point in taking politics too seriously.“I aspire to be a political atheist. I don’t think we should place too much hope in our political leaders,” said Thiel, “A lot of it seems to resemble World Wide Wrestling with the difference that the wrestlers know it’s all fake.”

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2012 - Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel - Debate

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Updated: 11 Mar 2015

Dinner and Debate.

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Peter Thiel on markets, technology, and education

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Duration: 45:37
Updated: 23 Oct 2014

In this episode of Uncommon Knowledge, guest Peter Thiel, one of Silicon Valley’s leading investors and thinkers, discusses his new book Zero to One. In it Thiel explains his theories on markets, monopolies, and the lack new technology. Born in Germany, raised in California, Thiel is a US-ranked chess master and cofounder of PayPal and Palantir.

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Peter Thiel Comes to Stanford

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Updated: 03 Oct 2014

Venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who founded PayPal and was the first major investor in Facebook, shared business tips from his new book, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, with students and alumni at Stanford on Sept. 29, 2014. He also recalled his days at Stanford as an undergraduate and law student.

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Hillary Clinton Would Be a One-Term President | Glenn Beck Radio Program

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Updated: 21 Oct 2014

Peter Thiel tells Glenn Beck why he believes Hillary Clinton would be a one term president. Watch full episodes of the Glenn Beck Radio Program on demand with a subscription to TheBlaze TV: http://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-radio-program/ Listen to the Glenn Beck Radio Program on demand: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-glenn-beck-program/id620967489?mt=2 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/glennbeck Start a 14-day trial of TheBlaze TV here: http://theblaze.com/tv Connect with TheBlaze Follow: http://twitter.com/theblaze Like: http://facebook.com/theblaze Subscribe: http://youtube.com/theblaze Watch on Demand: http://theblaze.com/TV Connect with Glenn Beck Follow: http://twitter.com/glennbeck Like: http://facebook.com/glennbeck Subscribe: http://youtube.com/glennbeck Get the most important news of the day by subscribing to FireWire, TheBlaze's free email newsletter: http://theblaze.com/newsletter.

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Peter Thiel w/ Glenn Beck his book "Zero to One" on The Blaze TV

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Updated: 23 Oct 2014

Glenn Beck sat down with Silicon Valley Guru and author Peter Thiel about his book "Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future" on The Blaze TV. Get the book at http://www.bit.ly/zero_2_1 ~ http://www.GlennBecksBookList.com If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself. Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique. Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places. (amazon.com) This video was originally filmed and shown by The Blaze TV program and Glenn Beck.

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PandoMonthly: Fireside Chat With Peter Thiel

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Updated: 21 Nov 2012

In a fireside chat with Sarah Lacy, Peter Thiel talks about what questions he asks of startup CEOs he is interviewing, when a company should enter a market, the nature of competition and capitalism, transparency and criminality, the education bubble, startup CEO salaries, and a number of question from the audience.

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Peter Thiel - Zero to One [KBS 오늘 미래를 만나다 - 피터 틸] 150307

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Peter Thiel - Zero to One [KBS 오늘 미래를 만나다 - 피터 틸] Peter Thiel visited Seoul for giving lectures based on his latest book 'Zero to One'. This video was captured from a special show 'Today, meet the future' by Korea's National Broadcasting System KBS. Newsystock's co-founder and co-ceo Ryan Moon asked a question to Peter Thiel at 28:00. 오늘 미래를 만나다 E01 150307 피터 틸의 '미래를 만드는 비밀' HDTV H264 720p WITH

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Peter Thiel: You Are Not a Lottery Ticket - SXSW Interactive 2013

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Updated: 05 Sep 2014
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Discourse and action in our society are increasingly dominated by the idea that the world cannot be known. But to what degree issuccess in this world dominat...

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Peter Thiel: Going from Zero to One

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Updated: 30 Jan 2015

Entrepreneur Peter Thiel believes that history, at least when it comes to businesses, never repeats itself. As a member of the so-called PayPal Mafia, the first outside investor in Facebook and founder of the Thiel Fellowship, Thiel himself has built a career of founding one-of-a-kind enterprises. Hear the "contrarian truths" that led to his biggest successes. About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com

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Keynote Interview: Peter Thiel

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Updated: 25 Feb 2015

The Buttonwood Gathering 2015 February 10th / New York, NY Peter Thiel Co-founder, PayPal and partner, Founders Fund Matthew Bishop Globalisation editor, The Economist

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Lecture 5 - Competition is for Losers (Peter Thiel).mp4

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Updated: 27 Mar 2015

Lecture 5 - Competition is for Losers (Peter Thiel).mp4

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Binary Truths with Peter Thiel | Disrupt SF 2014

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Updated: 09 Sep 2014

Peter Thiel goes in on Uber's ethics, harmonizing the worlds of bits and atoms, and lessons learned as part of the "PayPal mafia" with Alexia Tsotsis. » Subscribe to TechCrunch Today: http://goo.gl/eg167 TechCrunch Disrupt is one of the most anticipated technology conferences of the year. From September 8th September 10th, TechCrunch TV will be airing exclusive coverage from Pier 48 in San Francisco. Disrupt SF has an all new slate of outstanding startups, influential speakers, and celebrity guests.

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Anderson Speaker Series: Peter Thiel

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Updated: 05 Feb 2015

A talk with Peter Thiel, Partner at Founders Fund and co-founder of PayPal, on January 26, 2015.

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PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel on the future of technology

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Updated: 16 Sep 2014

From Apple Pay to rules for startups, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel joins the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts and weighs in on the future of technology. He also discusses his new book, "Zero to One."

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Peter Thiel in conversation with Peter Guber at Live Talks Los Angeles

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Updated: 08 Oct 2014

Peter Thiel was interviewed by Peter Guber at Live Talks Los Angeles on October 2, 2014 on the occasion of the release of his book, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (co-authored by Blake Masters). The talk took place at The Moss Theatre at New Roads School. For more on Live Talks LA, visit www.livetalksla.org Peter Thiel first gained attention for innovations in banking and startup finance. In 1998, Thiel made e-commerce easier, faster, and more secure by co-founding and leading PayPal, which now has more than 128 million active financial accounts. In 2002, PayPal sold to eBay and he founded a global macro fund, Clarium. He works to accelerate innovation by identifying and funding promising technology ideas and by guiding successful companies to scale and dominate their industries. In 2004, he co-founded Palantir Technologies, which offers platforms for finance companies and intelligence, defense, and law enforcement communities to integrate, visualize, and analyze the world’s information. In the same year, he made the first outside investment in Facebook, whose board he serves on, and now has more than a billion active members. Peter Guber is Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group. Prior to Mandalay, Guber was Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Chairman and CEO of Polygram Entertainment, Co-Founder of Casablanca Record & Filmworks and President of Columbia Pictures. Guber produced or executive produced (personally or through his companies) films that garnered five Best Picture Academy Award nominations (winning for Rain Man) and box office hits that include The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Batman, Flashdance, The Kids Are All Right and Soul Surfer. Peter Guber is Owner and Co-Executive Chairman of the Golden State Warriors, and an Owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He is Chairman of Dick Clark Productions, Chairman of Mandalay Digital Group and Chairman of Mandalay Sports Media. Guber is an Entertainment and Media Analyst for Fox Business News and a full professor at UCLA. He is the author of the #1 NYT bestseller, Tell to Win.

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FASCINATING [FULL] INTERVIEW WITH PETER THIEL (PAYPAL CO-FOUNDER) ON THE GLENN BECK PROGRAM

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Updated: 23 Oct 2014

THE BLAZE 10/21/2014 Could this be the new counter-culture? Tuesday, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:23 PM PDT Facebook Share Tweet On Tuesday’s TV show, Glenn took billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel to the backlots of the Mercury Studios for an interview on the green couch. The conversation covered a myriad of topics, but one of the most interesting was their discussion on the counter-culture and the values of Silicon Valley. Glenn: So how does Karl Marx become cool and Jefferson become uncool? How did that happen? Peter: You know, I don’t quite know. I’m more interested in the future oriented question, which is how do we make Karl Marx uncool and how do we make Jefferson cool? Glenn: How do we do that? ADVERTISEMENT Peter: Don’t quite know about that either, but that’s the question we should be asking. That’s the question you want to fundamentally solve. You know, why is wearing a Che Guevera T-shirt, why is that cool in a way in which wearing a Jefferson— Glenn: The only answer I can think of is because of a counterculture that whatever the establishment says is cool is not, and so the establishment has been Che is a rebel and, you know, is trouble. Jefferson, we’ve got monuments to him, and that’s the establishment. My hope has come, and this is really a dark hope, but my hope has been at some point that table is going to flip, and the establishment is going to be saying Che and socialism and communism is all neat, and at some point Jefferson, don’t read that. As soon as they say don’t read those things, you’re cool again. Peter: Yeah, well there’s definitely some sense in which I can’t…there are no perspectives on left of center in the U.S., anywhere left of center, mildly, far left of center, that I think are anything but conventional at this point. I definitely agree that it feels that way. You know, I think, to take sort of a nonpolitical cut at this, I think one of the…you know, the countercultural in the 60s was the hippies. You know, we landed on the moon in July of 1969. Woodstock started three weeks later, and with the benefit of hindsight, that’s when progress ended, and the hippies took over the country. Today the counterculture is to believe in science and technology. You know, our society, the dominant culture doesn’t like science. It doesn’t like technology. You just look at the science fiction movies that come out of Hollywood—Terminator, Matrix, Avatar, Elysium. I watched the Gravity movie the other day. It’s like you would never want to go into outer space. You would just want to be back on some muddy island. And so I think we’re in a world where actually believing that a better future is possible that you can have agency and work towards a better future, that is actually radically countercultural. Glenn: Could I offer this to that, that it’s not that we’re anti-science. I think you make a good point in the movies, but I don’t think we’re necessarily anti-science or anti-technology as much as we are becoming more and more fatigued on virtual everything. We want something real. Nothing in our society is real. Our money isn’t real. Our word doesn’t matter anymore. Our communication isn’t real. Nothing is real. Peter: Well, you know, I’ve often said there’s been this technological slowdown for the last 40 years, and there is probably some strange connection— Glenn: Explain that, because I don’t think that makes— Peter: Where we’ve had progress in the world of bits but not in the world of atoms, and this world of bits, we’ve had progress in computers, Internet, mobile Internet. Technology just means information technology. It’s all about bits, but the world of atoms, space travel, energy like nuclear power, biotech, new medical devices, that’s been much slower, and there’s been much less progress in those areas in the last forty years. Glenn: Because of regulation? Peter: One’s been regulated, the other has not, but we’ve had this sort of dualistic world where the virtual world of bits has been growing very fast, but the real world of atoms has been kind of stagnant. And I think there’s a strange counterpoint where the same thing happened with our currency, where the real value of money became separate from the virtual in August of ’71 when we went off the gold standard. And so, you know, whatever you think of the gold standard, it had the virtue of connecting the real with the virtual. Glenn: Meaning something, right. http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/10/21/could-this-be-the-new-counter-culture/

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Big Think Interview With Peter Thiel

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A conversation with the venture capitalist.

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Peter Thiel on markets, technology, and education

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In this episode of Uncommon Knowledge, guest Peter Thiel, one of Silicon Valley's leading investors and thinkers, discusses his new book Zero to One. In it T. In a fireside chat with Sarah Lacy, Peter Thiel talks about what questions he asks of startup CEOs he is interviewing, when a company should enter a market, . Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel discusses Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard. He speaks with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on “Studio 1.0.” (Source:. On Facebook, PayPal, Palantir, and technological progress with the Silicon Valley investor. Click Show more to view all chapters. For more conversations, v.

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1.16.14 Meet the "Mozart of Chess": World Chess Champ Magnus Carlsen, in conversation w/ Peter Thiel

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Speakers: Magnus Carlsen, World Chess Champion Moderator: Peter Thiel, Technology entrepreneur and investor; Partner, Founders Fund; Co-founder, Mithril Capi...

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Web Summit 2014 Day Three - Peter Thiel and Caroline Daniel

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Peter Thiel on René Girard

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Peter Thiel discusses his encounter with the mimetic theory of René Girard and its applications in his life, business, and thinking.

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"Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future" Peter Thiel's Book

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Glenn Beck talked to Peter Thiel about his book "Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future" on the radio. Get the book at http://www.bit.ly/zero_2_1 ~ http://www.GlennBecksBookList.com If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself. Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique. Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places. (amazon.com)

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Peter Thiel - 2014 Reaching Out LGBT MBA Conference Keynote

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The Annual Reaching Out LGBT MBA Conference (ROMBA) is the world's largest gathering of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) MBAs and business students. For more information about Reaching Out, an organization dedicated to educating, inspiring and connecting current and prospective LGBTQ business students and MBAs visit http://www.reachingoutlgbt.org Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He started PayPal in 1998, led it as CEO, and took it public in 2002, defining a new era of fast and secure online commerce. In 2004 he made the first outside investment in Facebook, where he serves as a director. The same year he launched Palantir Technologies, a software company that harnesses computers to empower human analysts in fields like national security and global finance. He has provided early funding for LinkedIn, Yelp, and dozens of successful technology startups, many run by former colleagues who have been dubbed the “PayPal Mafia.” He is a partner at Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has funded companies like SpaceX and Airbnb. He started the Thiel Fellowship, which ignited a national debate by encouraging young people to put learning before schooling, and he leads the Thiel Foundation, which works to advance technological progress and long-term thinking about the future. His book Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future was published in 2014 as is a New York Times Best Seller.

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Thiel: Google has $50B, doesn't innovate

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Venture capitalist Peter Thiel tells Google Chairman Eric Schmidt the company has no idea how to invest its money.

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Technology entrepreneur Peter Thiel interviews HRF’s Garry Kasparov

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The chairman of the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), Garry Kasparov, discusses technology, chess, democracy, Russian and American politics as well as human rights and prospects for the world economy with technology entrepreneur Peter Thiel. The interview was recorded in 2010. For more information, please visit the HRF website: www.humanrightsfoundation.org

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Peter Thiel dropped by the BostInno office to chat about startups, his new book, and whether he's ever taken the MBTA. (He has not.)

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Peter Thiel on Innovation and Stagnation

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On Facebook, PayPal, Palantir, and technological progress with the Silicon Valley investor. Click "Show more" to view all chapters. For more conversations, visit http://www.conversationswithbillkristol.org Chapter 1 (00:15 - 18:11): PayPal Chapter 2 (18:11 - 36:30): Against Conventional Wisdom Chapter 3 (36:30 - 43:07): Facebook Chapter 4 (43:07 - 1:04:28): An Innovation Slowdown? Chapter 5 (1:04:28 - 1:13:57): The Need for Growth Chapter 6 (1:13:57 - 1:36:39): The Higher Education Bubble

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Peter Thiel on Facebook, Technology, and the Higher Education Bubble

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Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal, was an early investor in Facebook, and currently serves as president of the global macro h...

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"Bluffing" About Climate Change | Peter Thiel and Glenn Beck

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Billionaire investor Peter Thiel talks to Glenn Beck about climate change and global warming, and the "tell" that those who talk about it are really just bluffing. Watch the full episode on demand: http://www.video.theblaze.com/shared/flash/mediaplayer/v4.4/R10/MP4.jsp?calendar_event_id=187-212634&content;_id=36824717&media;_id=&view;_key=&media;_type=video&source;=THEBLAZE&sponsor;=THEBLAZE&clickOrigin;=&affiliateId;= Watch full episodes of the Glenn Beck Program on demand with a subscription to TheBlaze TV: http://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/ Start a 14-day trial of TheBlaze TV here: http://theblaze.com/tv Connect with TheBlaze Follow: http://twitter.com/theblaze Like: http://facebook.com/theblaze Subscribe: http://youtube.com/theblaze Watch on Demand: http://theblaze.com/TV Connect with Glenn Beck Follow: http://twitter.com/glennbeck Like: http://facebook.com/glennbeck Subscribe: http://youtube.com/glennbeck

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20 July 2015. From the section US & Canada. Moore said her heart went out to the victim's loved ones. US actress Demi Moore has expressed "absolute shock'' after a man drowned in a pool at her Los Angeles home ... Moore, 52, said in a statement ... ....

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Deadly blast hits Suruc in southern Turkey

BBC News

20 Jul 2015

20 July 2015. From the section Europe. An explosion has killed at least 10 people at a cultural centre in the southern Turkish town of Suruc near the Syrian border, local media say. They say at least 20 were wounded in the blast in the garden of the Amara Cultural Centre close to the Syrian town of Kobane. About 300 delegates from youth associations were reportedly staying at the centre ... Share this story About sharing ... Top Stories ... ....

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Stephen Hawking launches $100 million hunt for alien civilisations

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20 Jul 2015

The new project, called Breakthrough Listen, is chaired by Lord Rees the astronomer royal and backed by Professor Stephen Hawking . ....

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20 Jul 2015

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in Paris, France, on January 16, 2015, to continue their negotiations over the future of Iran's nuclear program.

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Welcome Back America... to the Global Community

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20 Jul 2015

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 was in many aspects more traumatic for the United States than the Soviets. To be certain, the Cold War might have concluded at last, but so did an era in the history of American foreign policy and internationalism ... But before discussing how nuclear negotiations with Iran has encouraged the U.S ... Indeed, the U.S ... When the U.S ... 11, 2001 ... For the U.S....

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PayPal valued at about $52 billion in market return

The Times of India

20 Jul 2015

PayPal Holdings Inc shares jumped as much as 11 per cent in their highly anticipated return to the Nasdaq on Monday, valuing the company at about $52 billion ... EBay's stock fell as much as 4.7 per cent, valuing the company at about $32 billion ... PayPal was founded in the late 1990s by venture capitalist Peter Thiel, Tesla Motors Inc CEO Elon Musk and others ... ....

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PayPal returns to market with $52 billion valuation

Yahoo Daily News

20 Jul 2015

By Devika Krishna Kumar and Mari Saito. "PayPal is the gorilla among independent digital payment service providers with more than 160 million active accounts, global scale and brand recognition," J.P. Morgan analysts said. PayPal is also looking to compete with Western Union Co and other money transfer companies ... PayPal was founded in the late 1990s by venture capitalist Peter Thiel, Tesla Motors Inc CEO Elon Musk and others....

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Paypal valued at almost $50bn with Nasdaq return

BBC News

20 Jul 2015

By Katie Hope Business reporter in New York. 20 July 2015. From the section Business. PayPal has returned to Nasdaq 13 years after being bought by eBay ... Shares in PayPayl rose 6.5%, or $2.51, to $40.90 in New York ... PayPal, which was founded by a group of investors including venture capitalist Peter Thiel and Tesla Motors boss Elon Musk in 1998, first listed on Nasdaq in 2002 and was bought later that year by eBay ... ....

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PayPal valued at about $50 bln ahead of market debut

Yahoo Daily News

20 Jul 2015

By Devika Krishna Kumar and Mari Saito. REUTERS - PayPal Holdings Inc shares rose 5.9 percent in premarket trading, ahead of their highly anticipated return to the Nasdaq, valuing the company at about $50 billion ... "PayPal is the gorilla among independent digital payment ... Morgan analysts said ... PayPal was founded in the late 1990s by venture capitalist Peter Thiel, Tesla Motors Inc CEO Elon Musk and others ... "......

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Banks suffer reversal of reputation as business graduates look to less regulated industries

South China Morning Post

19 Jul 2015

Recruiting trends at leading business schools are a key indicator of the prospects of an industry ... The shift in sentiment was best illustrated when Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal) showed up on campus not to recruit, but to speak about his companies, which caused the school's 1,000-seat theatre to be filled to capacity ... But Google offers so much more than a paycheque ... Peter Guy is a financial writer and former international banker ....

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Silicon Valley startup guru reveals the kinds of ideas he thinks should get investment

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19 Jul 2015

View photo. (Steve Blank). Steve Blank seems disgusted with the state of Silicon Valley's startup and venture capital scene today ... Therefore you get investors trying to rationalize how this is great for us." ... "But when I think about when we were inventing silicon and computers, now watching Elon Musk and others who are making major changes....I align with Peter Thiel's strategy, fund the guys who are building flying cars." ... NOW WATCH....

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Google's former CIO was deaf and dyslexic as a kid — now he’s helping millions of Americans get emergency loans

Business Insider

18 Jul 2015

Merrill quit his job at Google and launched Zest Finance, a company that provides an online lending platform for personal loans ... It lists some of the Valley’s top VCs, including Peter Thiel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Matrix Partners, as its investors ... ....

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Google's former CIO was deaf and dyslexic as a kid — now he’s helping millions ...

Seattle Post

18 Jul 2015

By any measure, Douglas Merrill’s had a successful career. He has a Princeton PhD and was Google’s Chief Information Officer for 6 years. Now he’s running his own startup called Zest Finance, an online lending service that’s raised $112 million so far ... It lists some of the Valley’s top VCs, including Peter Thiel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Matrix Partners, as its investors....

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Transhumanism Is Booming and Big Business Is Noticing

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17 Jul 2015

Transhumanism is any technology that radically enhances or modifies the human being -- Photo by Charly W. Karl ... With billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison openly putting money into aging research, and behemoths like Google recently forming its anti-aging company Calico, there's real confidence that the human race may end up stopping death in the next few decades ... I am thrilled with this ... However, significant challenges remain....

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What Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and 13 other tech visionaries were like in college

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16 Jul 2015

Meanwhile, Peter Thiel — who actually did graduate from Stanford — now thinks college is such a waste of time that he offers $100,000 scholarships to students who want to bypass ......

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Liberty works everywhere

Business Day

15 Jul 2015

The FreedomFest luminary list included Nobel laureate Paul Krugman; Whole Foods mogul John Mackey; Forbes editor Steven Forbes; media superstar Glen Beck; best-selling author and black activist Doreen Borelli; actress, producer and opera singer Naomi Brockwell; celebrated TV host Kennedy; PayPal founder Peter Thiel; boastful billionaire Peter ......

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Breezeworks Introduces Web Client Enhancement to Class-Leading Mobile Field Management Platform

Seattle Post

15 Jul 2015

Further Integrates QuickBooks, Adds Large Team and Fleet-Management Features ... Breezeworks was founded by veteran technologists Mathew Cowan (Intel, CNET, iVillage, Geocities) and Adam Block (IDG, Harmonic Communications) and is backed by foremost institutional investors like Obvious Ventures, Harmony Partners and angel investors, such as Marc Benioff, Max Levchin, James Murdoch David Sacks, Peter Thiel and Jeff Skoll. Press Contact .....

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Why Advertisers Steer Clear of Reddit

Newsfactor

15 Jul 2015

Ellen Pao quit as interim chief executive at Reddit on Friday because, she said, she couldn't meet short-term revenue goals the board of directors had set. There's every reason to take her at her word. Reddit's business depends in part on advertising ... Most of them don't." ... In 2011 it was spun off as a separate company; it remained private with money from venture capitalists and angel investors, Mark Andreessen and Peter Thiel among them ... ....