How to Build the Future | Peter Thiel

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🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

"If you listen to only one podcast this year, this has to be the one." That's what James wrote after interviewing Peter Thiel in 2014 and, to begin 2023, we've remastered this classic episode for a new audience to experience. To one degree, this time-capsule episode immediately dates itself: Discussion about whether Uber can grow outside of San Francisco; Facebook was the most important social media company; talk of "new banking systems" doesn't revolve around cryptocurrencies and DFi. Make it past the surface, however, and this episode provides 75 minutes of thoughtful and robust discourse around the principles which have made billions and created billionaires.

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0:00.0	Peter Teal is one of the most fascinating people I've ever spoken to on this podcast.
0:10.8	I remember this one interview he did a few years ago with the New York Times where one
0:15.4	of the questions they asked him, do you like Star Trek better or Star Wars better?
0:19.9	And you know, people have their opinions on Star Trek and Star Wars, but he had a real
0:24.3	reason for his opinion.
0:26.3	He said Star Wars, of course, because Star Trek, everything you get for free, and that's
0:32.1	communist.
0:33.6	And Star Wars, the whole story revolves around this debt between Han Solo and Jabba the
0:39.6	Hood and there's actual capitalism in Star Wars.
0:43.0	So that was his answer.
0:44.4	He's really thought out the reasons he does things.
0:48.5	I mean, he was a lawyer at a top-notch law firm, quit that, wanted to be an entrepreneur,
0:53.8	started PayPal, made about $70 million from that, and then became the first investor in
0:59.3	Facebook, made billions from that, then started Palantir, made billions from that, and he's
1:06.0	gone on, who knows how many ways he's made more billions and billions of dollars.
1:11.5	And this podcast, I'm re-releasing it.
1:13.7	I doubt anyone has listened to this.
1:15.4	It was several years ago.
1:17.1	You can't even find it in the catalog right now, but I just listened to it.
1:21.4	This is evergreen, as it ever was, and it's really valuable to see here, really think about
1:28.8	how one of the most successful he will ever think.
1:32.8	And here he is.
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