On this episode, we cover the Joe Rogan Experience number 2190 with guest Peter Thiel.

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I'm Cecil. I'm joined by Michael Marshall, and today we're going to be covering Joe's August 24 interview with Peter Thiel.

Hey, Marsh, how did Joe introduce Peter Thiel in the show notes?

So, according to Joe, Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded PayPal,

made the first outside investment in Facebook, and co-founded Palantir Technologies where he

serves as chairman. Teal is a partner at the Founders Fund and leads the Teal Foundation,

which funds technological progress and long-term thinking.

He's also the author of the number one New York Times bestseller, 0 to 1.

Okay, is there anything else we should know about Peter?

Yeah, so Peter Thiel has a net worth of $16.2 billion, which makes him the 129th richest person in the world. And yet, he was the chief

exec of PayPal until 2002 when it was sold to eBay for $1.5 billion. And then he has been a big

investment of the companies, just like Facebook, but notably he is the chairman of Palantir,

which is a huge data company that's been criticized for a massive laundry

list of privacy intrusions and collusions with governments. And it's even been accused by

human rights charity Amnesty International of contributing to human rights violations of asylum seekers

and migrants. Teal also funded Hulk Hogan in the Boulayer v. Gorka lawsuit

because Gorka had outed Teal as gay and that was the lawsuit that eventually bankrupted Gorka.

I want to jump in here real quick and point people to a citation needed episode. We covered that on

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