4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Blake Masters is the COO at Thiel Capital and President of The Thiel Foundation.
He also co-authored the popular business book Zero to One with Peter Thiel in 2014.
Blake is currently running for the U.S Senate in Arizona, and in this episode, we talk about the similarities between running a political campaign versus running a startup.
Quick disclaimer: the political views, information, or opinions expressed during this episode are solely those of the individuals expressing them.
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0:00.0 | America is like the last best chance against the one world state. |
0:03.2 | A strong America is the one thing that prevents a sort of Chinese takeover of the world, |
0:08.7 | or just in less charismatic fashion the world is being run by Brussels and sort of European |
0:13.4 | decline. I think of America as as a nation distinct from other nations |
0:17.8 | falls you get to this place in 20 or 30 years or maybe a lot sooner |
0:21.2 | where it's just the one world state. |
0:23.1 | That's sort of independence and individual freedom are squashed out. |
0:26.5 | That's the mob, the mob wins. |
0:28.6 | And that's what we're trying to prevent. |
0:29.8 | What is up, you sexy bastard, It's your boy kid rocky aka |
0:35.3 | rabbi can't lose aka no a cave. In today's episode I talk to Blake |
0:38.7 | Masters now he's the co-author of the popular business book zero to one with |
0:42.3 | Peter Teal and he's also the |
0:43.6 | CEO at Teal Capital. Now what's wild is Blake has all this tech stuff going on but |
0:47.8 | he is now running for US senator in Arizona. If you've ever been curious |
0:51.4 | about the similarities between running a political campaign and a startup, you're going to love this episode plus a bunch of behind the scenes of what it takes to actually win in politics. |
0:59.0 | A quick disclaimer, I'm not here endorsing any of your political views or my political views. |
1:03.8 | I just thought Blake was super interesting and I really appreciated him coming on the show. |
1:06.7 | You can learn more about him at Blakemasters.com. |
1:09.6 | In this conversation you learn three gigantic things. |
1:11.3 | Number one, why politicians have to do this one thing that sucks. Number two, the advantage of |
1:16.5 | doing things that don't scale and three, social media is a powerful tool but |
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