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The Rubin Report

Peter Thiel on Trump, Gawker, and Leaving Silicon Valley

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.513.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

Peter Thiel (entrepreneur) joins Dave Rubin to discuss creating PayPal, why he moved his company out of SIlicon Valley, political correctness, the changing media landscape, his company ‘Palantir,’ libertarianism, his views on Trump, his take down of Gawker, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You've probably watched, listened to, or at the very least heard about Joe Rogan's interview

0:09.4

with TechGyon Alon Musk from last week.

0:12.2

Joe and Alon had a wide-ranging discussion for two and a half hours about evolution, technology,

0:17.8

market, simulation theory, and much more.

0:20.2

Immediately after, though, the headlines were all about the blunt that they smoked in

0:23.8

the last 20 minutes, along with the very memeable image of Alon with smokes around his head.

0:29.5

Shortly after Alon's Rogan interview aired, two top Tesla executives resigned and Tesla's

0:35.4

stock dropped significantly.

0:37.6

The usual suspects wrote think pieces questioning whether Musk was mentally stable or fit to

0:42.9

be an executive at the very company he created.

0:46.2

I think the majority of people found the whole ordeal to be kind of funny and quirky,

0:50.6

you know, like a surprising moment that makes life kind of interesting.

0:54.4

But apparently these days, if you do anything that doesn't conform to groupthink, there's

0:58.5

a media click machine that'll see blood and is waiting to strike.

1:02.7

Now, first off, weed is totally completely 100% legal here in California.

1:07.5

I'm guessing that you, person watching this right now, have probably tried it once or

1:11.4

twice yourself, maybe even inhaled.

1:14.5

But perhaps more importantly than legal issue, or whether marijuana has health benefits,

1:19.5

impairs your judgment, or all of the above, lies a more important question.

1:24.2

Alon Musk may be a little nutty, but is unquestionably one of the most important visionaries we have

1:30.8

today.

1:31.8

Beyond Tesla, his electric car company, which is revolutionized the automobile industry,

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