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An audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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TSI Conference 2009 - Peter Thiel

Thiel TalksJul 17, 2021

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TSI Conference 2009 - Peter Thiel

TSI Conference 2009 - Peter Thiel

TSI Conference 2009 - Peter Thiel

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Jul 17, 202130:55
Innovation Or Stagnation? - Oxford Union Debate (May 2013)

Innovation Or Stagnation? - Oxford Union Debate (May 2013)

Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Jul 10, 202146:23
12th Annual Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture 11-16-12

12th Annual Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture 11-16-12

Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture 

-- Mr. Peter A. Thiel, Technology Entrepreneur, Investor, and Philanthropist 

Mayflower Hotel 

Washington, DC

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Jun 26, 202136:48
Baby Boomers: The Dumbest Generation?

Baby Boomers: The Dumbest Generation?

From Big Think (2012).

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Jun 19, 202102:19
Peter Thiel at Libertopia 2010

Peter Thiel at Libertopia 2010

Peter Thiel, Founding CEO, Paypal; President, Clarium Capital; Philanthropist, gives the Keynote Speech at Libertopia 2010.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Jun 05, 202145:08
Peter Thiel on the Bible - May 2021

Peter Thiel on the Bible - May 2021

Peter Thiel, the highly successful tech entrepreneur and author, discusses his mentor Rene Girard; the Bible, how we read it, and how it reads us; Jesus’ death and resurrection; atheism and the limitless escalation of violence towards apocalypse.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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May 29, 202143:16
Panel with Peter Thiel, Aubrey de Grey, Eliezer Yudkowsky

Panel with Peter Thiel, Aubrey de Grey, Eliezer Yudkowsky

This panel includes venture capitalist Peter Thiel, AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky, and biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey on their thoughts on philanthropy and being pro-active. At Singularity Summit 2009.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

May 22, 202128:40
Peter Thiel on "Back to the Future" at Singularity Summit 2011

Peter Thiel on "Back to the Future" at Singularity Summit 2011

The Singularity Summit 2011 was a TED-style two-day event at the historic 92nd Street Y in New York City. 

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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May 15, 202147:19
The U.S. Economy with Peter Thiel

The U.S. Economy with Peter Thiel

December 5th, 2008. Peter Thiel says the U.S. may be facing several years of slow growth or stagnation. However, in a globalized and very competitive world, there are surprisingly big constraints on political action that can lead us toward being less capitalist and less competitive. In short, we will compete, although it will be an increasingly difficult slog unless our technological means elevate dramatically.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

May 08, 202137:20
A New Way to Think About Startup Innovation

A New Way to Think About Startup Innovation

October 3rd, 2014. Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel talks about the insights on building the future that he gained as an entrepreneur and investor.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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May 01, 202117:14
TEDxSiliconValley - Peter Thiel - 12/12/09

TEDxSiliconValley - Peter Thiel - 12/12/09

In this talk, Peter describes how our entire civilization is predicated on accelerating technological change. Peter Thiel, best known as the founder of both PayPal (sold to eBay in 2002) and hedge fund Clarium Capital, in 2009 launched the Thiel Foundation, a private foundation based in NYC that defends and promotes freedom in all its dimensions: political, personal and economic.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Apr 24, 202114:11
(FULL RECORDING) Peter Thiel on US-China Relations at the Nixon Foundation April 6th, 2021

(FULL RECORDING) Peter Thiel on US-China Relations at the Nixon Foundation April 6th, 2021

PayPal co-founder and Facebook board member Peter Thiel joined The Nixon Seminar on Conservative Realism and National Security on Tuesday, April 6th to discuss Big Tech and China: What do we need from Silicon Valley? Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security Advisor Ambassador Robert O’Brien led a discussion between Thiel and 15 national security experts.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Apr 17, 202101:30:12
The Nixon Seminar | Peter Thiel on Tik Tok, China, Cryptocurrency, and AI

The Nixon Seminar | Peter Thiel on Tik Tok, China, Cryptocurrency, and AI

PayPal co-founder and Facebook board member Peter Thiel joined The Nixon Seminar on Conservative Realism and National Security on Tuesday, April 6 to discuss Big Tech and China: What do we need from Silicon Valley? Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security Advisor Ambassador Robert O’Brien led a discussion between Thiel and 15 national security experts.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Apr 10, 202105:30
Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, the State of Our Technology, and Artificial Intelligence with Bill Kristol

Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, the State of Our Technology, and Artificial Intelligence with Bill Kristol

The business founder and investor discusses America, globalization, and the state of technological innovation.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Apr 03, 202101:23:08
Peter Thiel on Innovation and Stagnation with Bill Kristol

Peter Thiel on Innovation and Stagnation with Bill Kristol

Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal and Palantir Technologies, was the first outside investor in Facebook, and is the author of Zero to One, Notes on StartUps, or How to Build the Future.  The conversation focuses on Thiel's experiences founding companies, the state of technology and innovation, and the crisis in American higher education.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Mar 27, 202101:36:16
The Silver Lining | Peter Thiel In 2021

The Silver Lining | Peter Thiel In 2021

Podcast recorded January 2021.  Peter traverses usual terrain of AI, education and China with some Covid updates and interesting takes on fin tech and bitcoin. Great to see Peter doing interviews again.  I love his realistic (slightly dark), intelligent optimism.  The podcast is called Unpacking Impact by CSIS and this was the first episode.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Mar 20, 202121:40
A Conversation with Peter Thiel and Niall Ferguson - Institute of Politics

A Conversation with Peter Thiel and Niall Ferguson - Institute of Politics

February 6, 2012 - A conversation with: Peter Thiel, founding CEO of PayPal; Member, Board of Directors, Facebook; entrepreneur; and venture capitalist and Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Mar 13, 202101:13:21
Hamilton College Remarks by Commencement Speaker Peter Thiel

Hamilton College Remarks by Commencement Speaker Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel, co-founder of worldwide online payments system PayPal, delivered the Commencement address at Hamilton College on May 22, 2016.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Feb 20, 202110:59
Peter Thiel Different Perspectives On Innovation, Risk and Investing

Peter Thiel Different Perspectives On Innovation, Risk and Investing

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Feb 13, 202147:40
Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman & Xavier Niel speak together in Italy

Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman & Xavier Niel speak together in Italy

SEI Torino Forum 2018

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Feb 06, 202159:05
"Mozart of Chess": World Chess Champ Magnus Carlsen, in conversation with Peter Thiel

"Mozart of Chess": World Chess Champ Magnus Carlsen, in conversation with Peter Thiel

1.16.14.

Moderator:  Peter Thiel, Technology entrepreneur and investor; Partner, Founders Fund; Co-founder, Mithril Capital Management.

Magnus Carlsen took the world by storm as a child prodigy, becoming an international Grand Master at 13. At 19, he was the youngest chess player to be ranked number one in the world, and at 22, in November 2013, he defeated five-time former world champion Viswanathan Anand. Now, at age 23, Magnus holds a record rating of 2872.  Be inspired by Magnus as he is interviewed by entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel, former US-rated Chess Master with a lifelong passion for chess. Topics covered are Magnus' views on the game, his experience winning the championship, and the role he believes chess can play in advancing young people's critical thinking, social skills, and ability to achieve academically.   Prior to the onstage program, Magnus played in a six-board simultaneous chess demonstration. Participants entered in a drawing benefiting First Move, a dynamic non-profit organization that brings chess to second and third graders across the country—and the winner became one of the six brave players.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Jan 30, 202158:48
Max Levchin and Peter Thiel: Smart Venture Capital in 2011 (2/2/11)

Max Levchin and Peter Thiel: Smart Venture Capital in 2011 (2/2/11)

Max Levchin and Peter Thiel: Smart Venture Capital in 2011.

Max Levchin, Founder, Slide; Co-founder, PayPal Peter Thiel, President, Clarium Capital; Co-founder, PayPal; Managing Partner, The Founders Fund Brad Stone, Senior Writer, BusinessWeek -- Moderator  Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs have long been 'the masters of the universe,' at least in Silicon Valley. They have turned the Valley into the heart of high-tech innovation and development and have the power to make or break some of the world's largest companies. The 21st century has borne witness to the dot-com bubble, the private equity crash, yesteryear's greentech capital wave, to today's monetary flow into social networking, e-commerce and online game companies. What's next? Paypal founders and renowned VCs Levchin and Thiel will discuss what they foresee as the best and brightest of 2011.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Jan 23, 202101:04:56
Peter Thiel on Tax Fairness

Peter Thiel on Tax Fairness

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Jan 16, 202105:45
Peter Thiel and Charles Bolden on The World in 2050: What is the Next Big Idea?

Peter Thiel and Charles Bolden on The World in 2050: What is the Next Big Idea?

2013. Peter Thiel, Entrepreneur, Investor and Philanthropist Charles Bolden, NASA Adminstrator

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Jan 09, 202144:49
Copy of In Tech We Trust? A Debate with Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen

Copy of In Tech We Trust? A Debate with Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen

Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen are Silicon Valley luminaries, epic entrepreneurs and prominent financiers. Both have something to say about where high-tech is taking the world economy, and what is being left behind. Andreessen, co-developer of the first Web browser and now a top venture capitalist, expects software to automate and ultimately dominate most other industries. Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, has written in depth about what he considers the stagnation of innovation in fields that others see as emblems of progress: energy, pharmaceuticals, space exploration, nanotech and much more. In fact, Thiel links the austerity gripping the Western world to productivity gains that never happened. Join these acute observers for a unique exchange on science, business and innovation, or the lack thereof.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Jan 02, 202157:04
Big Think Interview With Peter Thiel

Big Think Interview With Peter Thiel

A conversation with the venture capitalist.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Dec 26, 202016:55
LendIt USA 2016: Keynote Presentation by Peter Thiel

LendIt USA 2016: Keynote Presentation by Peter Thiel

Entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel delivers his keynote presentation "Developing the Developed World" at LendIt USA 2016.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Dec 19, 202026:60
Peter Thiel - Competition Is For Losers - Stanford CS 183B Autumn Quarter 2014-2015
Dec 12, 202050:07
Peter Thiel interview - How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel interview - How to Build the Future

Speech from August 2015. Peter Andreas Thiel (born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, hedge fund manager, and social critic. Thiel co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Elon Musk (see PayPal Mafia) and served as its CEO. He also co-founded Palantir, of which he is chairman. He was the first outside investor in Facebook, the popular social-networking site, with a 10.2% stake acquired in 2004 for $500,000, and sits on the company's board of directors. Thiel serves as president of Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund with $700 million in assets under management; a managing partner in Founders Fund, a venture capital fund with $2 billion in assets under management; co-founder and investment committee chair of Mithril Capital Management; and co-founder and chairman of Valar Ventures. 

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Dec 05, 202049:08
Keynote Interview: Peter Thiel / The Buttonwood Gathering

Keynote Interview: Peter Thiel / The Buttonwood Gathering

The Buttonwood Gathering 2015 - February 10th / New York, NY

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Nov 28, 202031:43
DealBook Conference - Peter Thiel, Chris Sacca, Andrew Ross Sorkin

DealBook Conference - Peter Thiel, Chris Sacca, Andrew Ross Sorkin

DealBook Conference 2015. Andrew Ross Sorkin interviewing Peter Thiel and Chris Sacca.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Nov 21, 202031:37
Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Studio 1.0

Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Studio 1.0

December 18th, 2014 - Host Emily Chang sits down with venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who co-founded PayPal and made an early bet on Facebook.

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Nov 07, 202020:37
Binary Truths with Peter Thiel | Disrupt SF 2014

Binary Truths with Peter Thiel | Disrupt SF 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.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Oct 31, 202022:49
Peter Thiel on René Girard

Peter Thiel on René Girard

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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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Oct 10, 202010:37
Peter Thiel on the Failures and “Self-Hatred" of Big-Tech

Peter Thiel on the Failures and “Self-Hatred" of Big-Tech

Peter Thiel opens up about how artificial intelligence, 5G wireless, and blockchain security are converging in a new era.  In a substantive and wide-ranging discussion with tech guru George Gilder Thiel outlines how new Internet and monetary systems can remedy the currently torturous relations between the U.S. and China, and how understanding money as time overthrows the prevailing economic and technological models and opens the way to a cornucopian future.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Oct 03, 202038:42
David Graeber vs Peter Thiel: Where Did the Future Go

David Graeber vs Peter Thiel: Where Did the Future Go

Once upon a time, in the heyday of social prognostication, many Americans believed that gadget-related knowledge would surely yield immeasurable leaps forward in the progress of the human species. Yet as David Graeber argued in his Baffler essay "Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit," Information Age capitalism has mainly given us better ways to shop—and handed the government unprecedented opportunities to watch. Was the gilded promise of innovation a con game all along? What does Peter Thiel, the renowned Silicon Valley author and investor, think about the reality of technological progress? How do Thiel’s libertarian principles stand in relation to Graeber’s revolutionary anarchism? Come, see the future vanish—and possibly reconstitute itself—before your very eyes!

Friday, September 19, 2014
With David Graeber and Peter Thiel
Hosted by John Summers
General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
New York, NY

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Sep 26, 202001:01:23
Peter Thiel Speaks at Brain Bar (July 2018)

Peter Thiel Speaks at Brain Bar (July 2018)

Do you think technology is overtaking us? Legendary investor Peter Thiel thinks the problem is the exact opposite: general stagnation. 

How does Christianity affect the decisions of the world’s most influential venture capitalist? Why does he think that supporting Donald Trump is the least controversial decision he ever made? Why is it important not to rely only on your instincts or science in investing? Watch as he retells a critical board meeting with Mark Zuckerberg in 2006 when they decided not to sell Facebook to Yahoo!

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Sep 19, 202001:01:40
Peter Thiel on Financial Markets and the Singularity

Peter Thiel on Financial Markets and the Singularity

Hedge fund manager and entrepreneur Peter Thiel on the dot com boom, rise and fall of financial markets, and possible market trends over the next decade.

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Sep 12, 202020:06
Peter Thiel - Developing the Developed World: Asian Investment Conference | March 2013

Peter Thiel - Developing the Developed World: Asian Investment Conference | March 2013

When tracked against the lofty hopes of the 1950s and 1960s, technological progress has fallen short in many domains. This technology stagnation threatens not just our financial markets, but the entire modern political order, which is predicated on easy and relentless growth. For the world to thrive in the decades ahead, we must find ways to accelerate the rate of innovation and create a new generation of breakthrough technology companies.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Sep 05, 202049:36
Peter Thiel: You Are Not a Lottery Ticket | Interactive 2013 | SXSW

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

Discourse and action in our society are increasingly dominated by the idea that the world cannot be known. But to what degree is success in this world dominated by luck? How much of our lives can be planned for, and can the future be achieved in a world dominated by indeterminate thinking?  

In an hour, we'll look at the evolution of determinate to indeterminate thinking in our society, and we'll consider its many implications.

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Aug 29, 202053:53
Peter Thiel's Keynote - Effective Altruism Summit 2013

Peter Thiel's Keynote - Effective Altruism Summit 2013

In 2013, the effective altruism movement came together for a 7-day event in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Organizations in attendance: Leverage Research, the Center for Applied Rationality, the High Impact Network, GiveWell, The Life You Can Save, 80,000 Hours, Giving What We Can, Effective Animal Altruism, and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute

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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

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Aug 22, 202055:03
PandoMonthly: Fireside Chat With Peter Thiel

PandoMonthly: Fireside Chat With Peter Thiel

April 19th, 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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Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday.

Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Aug 12, 202001:10:38