Peter Thiel on Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not to Call your Company (Live at Mason)

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🗓️ 25 March 2015

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Peter Thiel and Tyler Cowen, both New York Times bestselling authors, are among today’s top global thought leaders and influential innovators. Listen as these two engage in a serious dialogue on the ideas and policies that will shape the future of innovation and progress in the coming years and decades.

Peter Thiel is among the most impressive innovators of the past two decades. As co-founder of Paypal and seed-funder for Facebook, Thiel has been instrumental in the conception and growth of some of today’s most entrepreneurial and innovative companies. In his latest best-selling book, Zero to One, Thiel explains how to build a better future by capitalizing on innovation. A staunch optimist, he maintains that progress can be achieved anywhere the human mind is able to think creatively. Thiel describes how entrepreneurial thinking leads to innovation, which builds something new and moves the mark from zero to one.

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0:00.0	Good afternoon.
0:05.7	Thank you for joining us today.
0:07.5	My name is Carrie Conco and I am Senior Vice President at the Mercatus Center here at
0:12.5	George Mason University.
0:14.9	It's my pleasure on behalf of the Mercatus Center to welcome you to the first of a series
0:20.7	of conversations with Tyler.
0:23.3	Today's special guest is Peter Teal.
0:26.8	The Mercatus Center is the leading university-based source of market-oriented ideas.
0:33.6	Our mission is to bridge the gap between academic ideas and real world problems, bringing scholarly
0:40.4	research to bear on the most pressing issues facing our country today.
0:46.3	This series of conversations will bring together world-class leaders who will talk about
0:52.0	how ideas, cutting edge research, and applied economics can be used to fix the problems
0:59.5	we face in society.
1:03.1	I'd like to take a moment to thank the members of the Media Relations Team and the events
1:07.7	strategies team who have made today's event possible.
1:12.4	I'd also like to thank Tyler Cowan, who's vision guides not only the Mercatus Center,
1:17.9	but this series of events.
1:21.0	It's my pleasure to get to introduce Tyler today.
1:24.2	Tyler Cowan is the Holbert L. Harris, professor of economics at George Mason University, with
1:32.0	his colleague at George Mason, Alex Taberock.
1:36.0	He is the co-founder of the Popular Economics Blog, Marginal Revolution.
1:42.1	He is also co-founder of MarginalRevolutionUniversity.com, an innovative space for learning and teaching
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