What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Peter Thiel, Patron of the Populist Right
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🗓️ 27 February 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Peter Thiel spent the better part of two decades molding the tech industry in his image. Now, he's leaving Facebook behind and turning his attention to politics. Is Thiel the next kingmaker for the populist right?
Max Chafkin, writer for Bloomberg and is the author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
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| 0:00.0 | Between forgetting the sellotape, |
| 0:01.6 | trying to squeeze eight people around a six-seater table |
| 0:04.1 | and the cat taking down the tree. |
| 0:06.1 | Again! |
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| 0:26.5 | Simple. Offer end 31st December for details online. |
| 0:34.0 | The co-founder of PayPal and first investor in Facebook, |
| 0:38.0 | entrepreneur Peter Teele. |
| 0:41.8 | If you don't follow Silicon Valley closely, |
| 0:44.0 | this might have been your first introduction to Peter Teele. |
| 0:46.8 | I build companies and I support people who are building new things |
| 0:50.5 | from social networks to rocket ships. |
| 0:52.8 | He charged onto the stage of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland. |
| 0:58.0 | Under a giant graphic, reading, |
| 1:00.5 | Make America One Again. |
| 1:02.3 | Delegates on the floor went nuts. |
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