Peter Thiel on being a contrarian
This Week in StartupsCited 3× on HN, 2015–2018
interview · general · 2015–2018 on HN
Jason Calacanis interviews Peter Thiel at LAUNCH Festival 2015 about contrarian thinking, investing, and building companies such as PayPal, Palantir and Facebook.
HN mostly cites it for specific anecdotes, such as Thiel's early Facebook investment and how he thinks about the future, not as a general recommendation.
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3 comments from Hacker News
> People always assume that the future will simply be like present only more so. Thanks for your thought. It reminded me a little bit about an interview with peter thiel where he responded to a question about the future. I guess popular culture in tech moves past ideas rather quickly and generally seems to jump from trend to trend until realizing the value of a trend. ▶ this video
Peter Thiel said recently in an interview[0] that when he made his initial $500K investment in Facebook at a $5M valuation in September 2004, he thought it would be big on college campuses, but didn't anticipate how successful it would actually become. 0: ▶ this video
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