# Peter Thiel — Researcher persona

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- Persona: Peter Thiel
- Summary: Durable Researcher corpus for Peter Thiel: his essays, op-eds, and lectures (the CS183 Stanford 'Startup' notes behind Zero to One, 'The Straussian Moment', 'The Education of a Libertarian', 'Competition Is for Losers', 'The End of the Future', 'Against Edenism', and the Founders Fund 'What Happened to the Future' manifesto), plus long-form interviews, debates, and conference talks, with entity-owned source snapshots and indexes.
- Page: https://researcher.now/e/peter-thiel
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- Sources: 341
- About report version: v12

## About

Peter Thiel’s public worldview is best understood as a theory of anti-mimetic escape: he sees competition, credentialism, globalization, institutional consensus, and even democratic majoritarianism as variants of imitation that pull people away from discovery and toward rivalry, stagnation, or violence. His startup advice, education critique, political interventions, and theological-philosophical interests all revolve around the same problem: how can rare individuals and small, aligned groups recover definite ambition, find hidden truths, and build institutions capable of creating a future rather than copying the present? [d09f97a6-bc47-4e00-9e28-5b3c4aadc6bb, 177faa7c-c9c8-4974-8c93-440475ea94a7, 6e9a7afd-527a-4cd9-9337-faca14dbb1a6, 03fc7703-24e0-4b73-8a7b-870dacefc9c8, ede8eae3-e049-43da-8b09-601abc95d8a2]

## Recurring interests and themes

- **Anti-competition as civilizational diagnosis:** Thiel’s famous “competition is for losers” doctrine is not only business strategy; it recurs as a critique of social systems that make people copy one another, fight over small stakes, and mistake difficulty for value. [de37c780-ec76-4b7d-beef-d3c3a411d6c5, 6e1e8b0e-1419-4ab4-b3e0-010838ba07e9]
- **Monopoly as creative shelter:** He treats durable monopoly-like businesses as the condition under which companies can plan long term, accumulate capital, recruit around a mission, and pursue non-obvious projects rather than being trapped in commodity markets. [24e6e90a-2600-4bdf-abd8-ff6e64d504f5, 4893f627-1730-41d2-a1a3-ff2283bd9f05]
- **Technological stagnation beyond software:** A central motif is the contrast between progress in “bits” and stagnation in “atoms”: computers, the internet, mobile, crypto, and AI have advanced while energy, transportation, space, biotech, and physical infrastructure have lagged since roughly the early 1970s. [470cbdde-9ccc-4cbf-a3d6-0e2685609df7, 3f58e198-8856-49b2-b4fc-473b32706fd4, a2383634-0779-4780-999b-b94d8309f165]
- **Secrets and hidden truths:** Thiel repeatedly asks what important truth few people agree with you on, framing startups as searches for “secrets” that are neither obvious conventions nor impossible mysteries. [d09f97a6-bc47-4e00-9e28-5b3c4aadc6bb, 0d0cacd8-64a9-4e64-9843-a05214385f32]
- **Education as status machinery:** He attacks elite education as a conformity engine and zero-sum tournament, from early critiques of Stanford political culture to later arguments about student debt, the Thiel Fellowship, and “substance over status.” [85bee991-97d6-46c0-a41b-10f8c07fa1de, d09f97a6-bc47-4e00-9e28-5b3c4aadc6bb, 796a7b07-bcd7-4aca-bf4b-de2d71dce751]
- **Founders as exceptional and mythic figures:** He is fascinated by founders as extreme people—part outsider, part insider, part hero, part scapegoat—whose unusual traits can create companies but also expose them to mythology, envy, and downfall. [33ad8d17-7bfc-4fb2-a633-29a0d7568ee3, 84adf8e8-e068-45ac-9c99-0c2ade571b5e]
- **Technology, politics, and theology as one field:** His later and philosophical materials connect science, Christianity, mimesis, apocalypse, global governance, and human violence, treating technological progress as inseparable from anthropology and political order. [5fe25b7d-1484-48df-ac81-c535cba94e20, ede8eae3-e049-43da-8b09-601abc95d8a2, 42bd96a0-5aaa-445c-951d-5e6888cccc81]

## Beliefs and principles

- **Capitalism and competition are opposites:** Thiel argues that capitalism is about accumulating capital, while perfect competition competes profits away; the valuable company creates and captures value rather than joining a crowded market. [d5ec8cc8-3478-4dd9-a964-2c42db5b8beb, 81ad0c03-8c3f-44c4-be0f-5a629c0f9b6f]
- **Durability matters more than first-mover drama:** He prefers “last mover advantage” because most value in a technology company lies far in the future, making endurance, defensibility, and long-term planning more important than being first. [24e6e90a-2600-4bdf-abd8-ff6e64d504f5, e6785165-0b3b-4cf2-aef9-4c3ab65243cb]
- **Definite optimism beats optionality:** He rejects the “lottery ticket” view of startups and investing, arguing for conviction, planning, concentration, and agency rather than spray-and-pray diversification or probabilistic drift. [1722cd44-deb2-41ff-b078-5be89e2a030d, d5ec8cc8-3478-4dd9-a964-2c42db5b8beb]
- **Start small, dominate, then expand:** His canonical startup pattern is to begin with a tiny market where monopoly is possible—PayPal’s eBay power sellers or Facebook’s Harvard launch—then grow outward from a position of strength. [3818c62e-5b73-4148-b7fd-5ee46c38de2e, d9abb3cb-22f0-4168-a8cb-1bc695bc06b1]
- **Distribution is as hidden as product:** Thiel argues that great products do not sell themselves; distribution, sales, and narrative are decisive and often disguised because people do not like admitting they are being sold to. [71732fe7-a07c-4be0-8a93-53e67fad12ea]
- **Aligned small groups outperform bureaucracies:** His startup theory emphasizes founding moments, equity alignment, high-trust teams, and coherent cultures because large organizations, governments, and nonprofits tend to lose the ability to go from 0 to 1. [d41fe958-3468-45be-867b-80717fc14ad6, 82bf777c-38c9-4423-9c98-0b77bbf6ca69]
- **Freedom requires exits from politics:** In his libertarian essays, Thiel remains committed to “authentic human freedom” but argues that conventional democratic politics is a poor vehicle for it, making cyberspace, seasteading, technology, and new institutions more promising escape routes. [03fc7703-24e0-4b73-8a7b-870dacefc9c8, da5ec5b5-a3c7-454a-a003-bfe5e0df38ee]
- **Faith can underwrite technological agency:** He links Christianity to a forward-looking view of history in which human action matters, contrasting this with resignation to chance, nature, or cyclical decline. [5fe25b7d-1484-48df-ac81-c535cba94e20, 3c203b0a-fccf-4711-91eb-410517668602]

## Future narratives and predictions

- **The future bifurcates between stagnation and breakthrough:** Thiel often frames the future not as smooth progress but as a choice among stagnation, collapse, singularity, or renewed technological acceleration. [177faa7c-c9c8-4974-8c93-440475ea94a7, 0bbdafe1-5318-401b-a2ca-c697979c59eb]
- **Globalization alone cannot save modernity:** He distinguishes horizontal progress—copying what works—from vertical progress—creating new things—and argues that a world betting mainly on globalization risks resource conflict, homogenization, and geopolitical fragility. [177faa7c-c9c8-4974-8c93-440475ea94a7, e173a3fe-0160-4b29-bca2-0175430f361b]
- **A technological renaissance must be ambitious but achievable:** In his “Back to the Future” frame, he favors concrete hard goals such as cancer and Alzheimer’s cures, compact nuclear reactors, fusion, energy storage, robotics, and space over vague futurism or impossible warp-drive fantasies. [0d72cf17-8156-4d53-acbd-75de0513ea82, 8b723c9e-3fea-4144-9495-9e81647a12c6]
- **AI is powerful but politically ambiguous:** He treats AI as a major breakthrough frontier but repeatedly qualifies hype with concerns about surveillance, autonomous weapons, concentration of power, and uncertain economic translation. [27418806-3e95-4782-9faa-ffeb0ae6197b, 62503309-4f42-420f-a21e-c510c427c1ef]
- **Biotech and longevity are moral frontiers:** He sees cancer, dementia, aging, and drug discovery as areas where progress would transform human life, while also warning that regulatory cost, stochastic science, and institutional failure have made biotech unusually difficult. [8f5563a2-c833-418f-8dbc-a1ec59ab2c9c, 4e925e4c-57c7-461b-8bd3-dd33d0b7e511]
- **The developed world must be redeveloped:** Thiel’s future agenda is less “develop the developing world” than “develop the developed world”—restore growth, rebuild physical-world ambition, and escape the assumption that rich societies are finished. [b4ccebd5-a2f2-479f-88d8-e3bf5c311db8, 5665fd77-7ba4-4a29-8874-ac0f5ef6f48e]
- **Technological risk can invite totalitarian safety politics:** His apocalyptic and Antichrist discussions warn that fear of nuclear weapons, AI, bioweapons, climate, or chaos can produce a “peace and safety” logic that legitimates one-world control. [42bd96a0-5aaa-445c-951d-5e6888cccc81, aef65312-b7a5-4b78-a514-5f1b20f30900]
- **China is convergence without liberal inevitability:** He repeatedly rejects the old prediction that economic growth would automatically make China democratic, treating China instead as a strategic test of globalization, copying, surveillance, and Western complacency. [8476dc0e-f7ea-4df0-8331-9614d657f6bb, e8053e9f-856b-4958-90de-b477475ac159]

## Recurring questions

- **What important truth do few people agree with you on?** This is his signature epistemic test for founders, investors, and thinkers because it separates genuine contrarian insight from consensus repetition. [d09f97a6-bc47-4e00-9e28-5b3c4aadc6bb, 0d0cacd8-64a9-4e64-9843-a05214385f32]
- **What valuable company is nobody building?** He translates the secrets question into startup form, asking where a hidden truth can become a durable institution rather than a mere opinion. [24e6e90a-2600-4bdf-abd8-ff6e64d504f5, 71ddacc4-8f90-4035-91a5-8cf32e5f9a1e]
- **Are we competing because the goal matters or because others want it?** Thiel repeatedly probes whether rivalry is evidence of value or a mimetic trap, using examples from elite schools, law firms, restaurants, payments, and startup copycats. [6e1e8b0e-1419-4ab4-b3e0-010838ba07e9, 140d3063-f09a-454b-82cc-7e66a762d7b3]
- **Where did the future go?** Across debates, interviews, and essays, he asks why the mid-century future of energy abundance, faster transportation, space exploration, robotics, and biomedical progress failed to arrive. [31749f3a-ab66-4031-81ac-d99d4652b84e, a2383634-0779-4780-999b-b94d8309f165, 8b723c9e-3fea-4144-9495-9e81647a12c6]
- **Can institutions still coordinate real progress?** He often contrasts the Manhattan Project, Apollo, and earlier state competence with today’s bureaucratized universities, science agencies, defense procurement, and regulatory systems. [433d7a06-52ec-42fa-b7b3-09fb730a3e83, 84c71fdd-b457-4bc0-a5e0-20b316e28dea, 94a9243d-4f08-4ea4-9bec-e121b0a4fa8e]
- **When does crowd wisdom become crowd madness?** He returns to the problem of consensus, asking when majority agreement becomes mob logic, epistemic closure, or totalitarian unanimity. [09fa4830-70fa-4f44-a0fb-e9d9c7d8db50, fccd4225-c7e4-4b2c-8126-e36d336362d2]
- **How do we avoid both Armageddon and world government?** His recent theological-political thinking asks for a narrow path between technological catastrophe and the totalitarian control justified as protection from catastrophe. [42bd96a0-5aaa-445c-951d-5e6888cccc81, aef65312-b7a5-4b78-a514-5f1b20f30900]
- **How can society identify rare builders without reproducing credentialism?** His education critique asks how to find exceptional talent and independent judgment outside status tournaments, even though alternatives like fellowships and founder networks also select and consecrate elites. [85bee991-97d6-46c0-a41b-10f8c07fa1de, 7fbb4c39-6f56-466d-a8b6-d0a36b8b751c]

## Tensions and contradictions

- **Anti-competition versus adversarial politics:** Thiel warns that rivalry makes opponents resemble one another, yet he has funded political insurgencies, defended hard conflict when necessary, and participated in polarized public battles. [140d3063-f09a-454b-82cc-7e66a762d7b3, 1a05c273-d67d-4535-bbe6-57049da7b6c0, b85cfcc4-6820-43f6-973d-e2ef3b81ea0c]
- **Libertarian exit versus state-adjacent power:** His early exit-from-politics thesis sits uneasily beside Palantir, defense and intelligence work, US-China strategy, political giving, and arguments for competent state action. [03fc7703-24e0-4b73-8a7b-870dacefc9c8]
- **Monopoly as creativity versus monopoly as domination:** In startup theory, monopoly enables long-term innovation; in political economy, concentrated corporate, state, or technological power can also become the thing he fears—control without freedom. [24e6e90a-2600-4bdf-abd8-ff6e64d504f5, ae53d274-d1e6-4d57-b6ee-b2d23c45efe3, aef65312-b7a5-4b78-a514-5f1b20f30900]
- **Technological optimism versus apocalyptic anthropology:** He calls for renewed progress and rejects anti-technological nostalgia, while also treating human imitation, violence, nuclear weapons, AI, and bioweapons as existentially dangerous. [3c203b0a-fccf-4711-91eb-410517668602, 97537c20-ea3d-4e27-88ee-f9f1dfdf41ec, ede8eae3-e049-43da-8b09-601abc95d8a2]
- **Secrets as entrepreneurship versus esotericism as politics:** In Zero to One, secrets are actionable, non-consensus truths; in his Straussian and Girardian materials, hidden truths also become tied to esoteric politics, violence, and the danger of saying publicly what societies cannot handle. [0d0cacd8-64a9-4e64-9843-a05214385f32, ede8eae3-e049-43da-8b09-601abc95d8a2, 80509dd9-de71-478b-895d-fbb98348c7fa]
- **Critique of elite universities versus elite alternative filters:** He attacks Ivy-style credential tracks and student debt, yet his practical alternatives still rely on rare-talent identification, founder networks, fellowships, venture capital, and high-status counter-elites. [85bee991-97d6-46c0-a41b-10f8c07fa1de, f5a05ff7-8df3-4c44-9470-e2322d02c18a]
- **Definite planning versus radical uncertainty:** He argues a bad plan is better than no plan and criticizes optionality, but his own accounts of PayPal, AI, geopolitics, and technological progress repeatedly acknowledge uncertainty, timing problems, and unknowable outcomes. [edfc19aa-c8f2-47d4-844c-aacf85462f28, 988c4c6b-3aa1-410d-a152-a81689a5f04d, deeabcef-5d20-49b8-a259-83ad3eb6a817]
- **Anti-status rhetoric versus charisma and myth:** He tells people to choose substance over prestige, but his founder theory also recognizes—and sometimes valorizes—the mythic, charismatic, status-charged aura around exceptional founders. [efc7979a-0e44-4073-8fbf-494d137bbacb, 33ad8d17-7bfc-4fb2-a633-29a0d7568ee3, cc25ea47-c670-40da-8523-7bdca8053ae1]

## Unifying threads

- **Escape from imitation:** The same anti-mimetic mechanism explains his hostility to competition, elite credential races, startup trends, status games, globalization-as-copying, and crowd consensus. [f8f84560-af05-4206-9de4-1458822ef49e, 6e1e8b0e-1419-4ab4-b3e0-010838ba07e9, d09f97a6-bc47-4e00-9e28-5b3c4aadc6bb]
- **From 0 to 1 as a metaphysics of agency:** “Zero to one” is not just a startup slogan; it names his belief that history advances through rare acts of creation that cannot be reduced to formulas, case studies, or statistical repetition. [82bf777c-38c9-4423-9c98-0b77bbf6ca69, c83cc908-7d61-4a98-bed5-fdad6a7af9c1]
- **Investor epistemology generalized:** Thiel’s philosophy maps the investor’s world onto everything else: hidden truths, asymmetric returns, power laws, concentrated conviction, founder selection, durable compounding, and the danger of mistaking averages for reality. [ad1ceb40-1084-4f43-8bde-89bf291d9d7f, 24e6e90a-2600-4bdf-abd8-ff6e64d504f5, d5ec8cc8-3478-4dd9-a964-2c42db5b8beb]
- **Stagnation as institutional failure:** Universities, regulators, large corporations, foundations, government science, and democratic politics all recur as institutions that once may have advanced progress but now often preserve consensus, manage decline, or punish heterodoxy. [a2383634-0779-4780-999b-b94d8309f165, 147f1209-0df1-4955-8aec-f30292d48cbf, ad2352ac-e8c7-4159-bd89-320db249f5fe]
- **The founder as institutional substitute:** Because he distrusts incumbents, Thiel repeatedly looks to small groups, founders, startups, and mission-driven companies as the units that can still coordinate discovery. [82bf777c-38c9-4423-9c98-0b77bbf6ca69, cc25ea47-c670-40da-8523-7bdca8053ae1, 33ad8d17-7bfc-4fb2-a633-29a0d7568ee3]
- **Freedom through new spaces:** From PayPal’s early currency ambitions to cyberspace, seasteading, Bitcoin, and technology as escape from politics, he is drawn to frontiers where existing sovereign, educational, or financial structures can be bypassed. [03fc7703-24e0-4b73-8a7b-870dacefc9c8, 4c63e19a-2b74-4881-a25a-803e96e452d2, bf7dd6de-720c-4697-944c-28bae82c1189]
- **A Christian-Girardian suspicion of crowds:** Girard gives Thiel a deep grammar for why imitation becomes rivalry, why societies scapegoat, why unanimity is dangerous, and why Christian revelation matters to politics and technology. [ede8eae3-e049-43da-8b09-601abc95d8a2, f8f84560-af05-4206-9de4-1458822ef49e, 5900c043-9431-4fed-b274-2c282b6153c3]
- **The narrow path between optimism and doom:** His recurring final posture is neither techno-utopian nor declinist: the future is open, human agency matters, and the wrong mix of stagnation, rivalry, fear, and centralized control could make it much worse. [03fc7703-24e0-4b73-8a7b-870dacefc9c8, 0d72cf17-8156-4d53-acbd-75de0513ea82, aef65312-b7a5-4b78-a514-5f1b20f30900]

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- Peter Thiel Echoes Branson and Musk: 'Don't Ask For Permission, Ask For Forgiveness' · inc.com — https://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/peter-thiel-echoes-branson-and-musk.html
- Technology Stalled in 1970 | MIT Technology Review · technologyreview.com — https://www.technologyreview.com/2014/09/18/171322/technology-stalled-in-1970
- Inside Peter Thiel’s mind | Vox · vox.com — https://www.vox.com/2014/11/14/7213833/peter-thiel-palantir-paypal
- Lecture 5 - Competition is for Losers (Peter Thiel) transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_0dVHMpJlo
- A.I., Mars and Immortality: Are We Dreaming Big Enough? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV7YgnPUxcU
- Why We Stopped Progressing | Peter Thiel | EP 541 transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=918qslcfwfY
- Peter Thiel Q&A: The Billionaire Investor Talks Apple Pay, Microsoft’s Lack Of Innovation, And Why We’re Not In A Tech Bubble · eu.eveningtribune.com — https://eu.eveningtribune.com/story/special/2014/09/23/peter-thiel-q-billionaire-investor/36353957007
- The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts Episode 28: Peter Thiel · tim.blog — https://tim.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/28-peter-thiel.pdf
- A Conversation With Peter Thiel - The New York Times · bits.blogs.nytimes.com — https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/a-conversation-with-peter-thiel
- Peter Thiel on the stagnation of technological innovation · techliberation.com — https://techliberation.com/2010/11/30/peter-thiel-on-the-stagnation-of-technological-innovation
- Peter Thiel: What the Future Looks Like - DocsLib · docslib.org — https://docslib.org/doc/698451/peter-thiel-what-the-future-looks-like
- Conversations with Tyler: Peter Thiel on Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not to Call your Company (Live at Mason) · cowenconvos.libsyn.com — https://cowenconvos.libsyn.com/website/01-peter-thiel-on-stagnation-innovation-and-what-not-to-call-your-company-live-at-mason
- 'Monopolies Are Great Companies. Super Competitive Ones Are Not,' Says PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel | HuffPost The World Post · huffpost.com — https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peter-thiel-paypal-monopolies_n_5781338
- PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel | KQED · kqed.org — https://www.kqed.org/forum/201409301000/paypal-co-founder-peter-thiel
- Peter Thiel — Charlie Rose · charlierose.com — https://charlierose.com/videos/6318
- Peter Thiel on markets, technology, and education | Hoover Institution Peter Thiel on markets, technology, and education · hoover.org — https://www.hoover.org/research/peter-thiel-markets-technology-and-education
- David Graeber vs. Peter Thiel: Where Did the Future Go? · vimeo.com — https://vimeo.com/112197123?fl=pl&fe=vl
- Peter Thiel and William Kristol: A Conversation about Entrepreneurship and Education | Claremont McKenna College · cmc.edu — https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/peter-thiel-and-william-kristol-conversation-about-entrepreneurship-and-education
- Peter Thiel: The Failure of Modern Technology (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2014) · castbox.fm — https://castbox.fm/episode/Peter-Thiel%3A-The-Failure-of-Modern-Technology-(Intercollegiate-Studies-Institute%2C-2014)-id6287364-id737529814
- What is the Hope for Humanity? A discussion of technology, politics, and theology transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Mlu7sHEHE
- What · thielfellowship.org — http://www.thielfellowship.org/
- Rebuilding American Sea Power · palantir.com — http://www.palantir.com/
- The Tim Ferriss Show · tim.blog — https://tim.blog/podcast
- About · reidhoffman.org — http://reidhoffman.org/
- Peter Thiel: Google Has Insane Perks Because It's A Monopoly · businessinsider.com — http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-google-monopoly-2014-9
- Peter Thiel on Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not To Name Your Company (Ep. 1 - Live at Mason) · conversationswithtyler.com — https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/peter-thiel
- Shop Diamond Bakery · amazon.com — http://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296
- René Girard (1923—2015) · iep.utm.edu — http://www.iep.utm.edu/girard
- Shop top categories that ship internationally · amazon.com — http://www.amazon.com/Things-Hidden-Since-Foundation-World/dp/0804722153/ref=sr_1_cc_1
- Peter Thiel And The Cathedral | Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry · patheos.com — https://www.patheos.com/blogs/inebriateme/2014/06/peter-thiel-and-the-cathedral
- Afflictor.com · “Instability Will Lead To Global Conflict, And That In Turn May Lead To What He Referred To As ‘Secular Apocalypse’” · afflictor.com — https://afflictor.com/2014/09/04/instability-will-lead-to-global-conflict-and-that-in-turn-may-lead-to-what-he-referred-to-as-secular-apocalypse
- Shop Diamond Bakery · amazon.com — http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J6YBOFQ
- Peter Thiel at TechCrunch Disrupt | TechCrunch · techcrunch.com — https://techcrunch.com/video/peter-thiel-at-techcrunch-disrupt
- Shop Diamond Bakery · zerotoonebook.com — http://zerotoonebook.com/
- The Economics of Radical Uncertainty – The Portal Group · theportal.group — https://theportal.group/the-economics-of-radical-uncertainty
- Economic Thinking In A Fallible World – The Portal Group · theportal.group — https://theportal.group/eric-weinstein-economic-thinking-in-a-fallible-world
- Two Reflections on Thielism | National Review · nationalreview.com — https://www.nationalreview.com/postmodern-conservative/two-reflections-thielism-peter-augustine-lawler
- Technology · vox.com — http://www.vox.com/technology
- Imitatio supports research, education, and publications building on René Girard's mimetic theory. · imitatio.org — http://www.imitatio.org/
- Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012 · blakemasters.tumblr.com — https://blakemasters.tumblr.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup
- Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 2 Notes Essay · blakemasters.tumblr.com — https://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/20582845717/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-2-notes-essay
- 404 · cato-unbound.org — https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/16/peter-thiel/your-suffrage-isnt-in-danger-your-other-rights-are
- Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 18 Notes... · blakemasters.tumblr.com — https://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/24578683805/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-18-notes
- @blakemasters on Tumblr · tumblr.com — https://www.tumblr.com/blakemasters
- Peter Thiel's The Straussian Moment · · uvcygnus.com — https://uvcygnus.com/peter-thiel-the-straussian-moment
- The Sovereign Individual : Mastering the Transition to the Information Age · books.google.com — https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Sovereign_Individual.html?id=WuQblPwwAjgC
- The Sovereign Individual · parents.simonandschuster.com — https://parents.simonandschuster.com/9780684832722
- The Diversity Myth · simonandschuster.com — https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Diversity-Myth/David-O-Sacks/9780945999768
- Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012 · gist.github.com — https://gist.github.com/harperreed/3201887
- The Law of the Rathole | MIT Technology Review · technologyreview.com — https://www.technologyreview.com/1999/05/01/236695/the-law-of-the-rathole
- External Links | Don’s Directory · dons.directory — https://dons.directory/external-links
- The Case against the International Monetary Fund | Hoover Institution The Case against the International Monetary Fund · hoover.org — https://www.hoover.org/research/case-against-international-monetary-fund
- Peter Thiel: Competition Is for Losers - WSJ · wsj.com — https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-losers-1410535536
- Politics and Apocalypse on JSTOR · jstor.org — https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/j.ctt7zt6qq
- Hoover Institution Public Policy Inquiry: International Monetary Fund Homepage - IMF Site · imfsite.org — http://www.imfsite.org/default.htm
- TrendForum - Competition Is for Losers · trendforum.nl — https://trendforum.nl/competition-is-for-losers

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