Peter Thiel

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and former CEO of PayPal, started in 1998, redefining the world of secure and fast e-commerce. Shortly thereafter, Thiel was the first outside investor in Facebook in 2004. Additionally, he co-founded Founders Fund, which has backed transformative companies like SpaceX and Airbnb, With a background in law and finance, Thiel has consistently championed innovation, whether through his venture capital firm, Thiel Capital, or the Thiel Fellowship, which provides $100,000 grants to young entrepreneurs who have a vision for a new product. Known for his contrarian thinking, Thiel is also the author of #1 New York Times bestselling book, Zero to One, which challenges conventional ideas about innovation and offers optimistic insight into future progress. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Vivo Barefoot http://vivobarefoot.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA25' ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Athletic Nicotine https://www.athleticnicotine.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Sign up to receive Tetragrammaton Transmissions https://www.tetragrammaton.com/join-newsletter

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0:00.0	Tetragrammaton.
0:03.0	Tetracket.
0:07.0	Tetrackermiton.
0:09.0	I was myself a product of an elite education.
0:26.0	I was Stanford undergraduate, Stanford Law School, and I graduated from undergrad 89
0:33.0	law school, class of 1992.
0:35.8	And then probably throughout the 90s and 2000s, I had a bias towards hiring people
0:43.1	from the top universities. I thought there were things that had gone haywire with them.
0:48.6	There was too much uniformity, too much political correctness. but I still believe that they were an incredibly
0:56.3	important ways that the elites in our society get formed and that one had to reform them or do
1:03.6	something about them if you're going to have an impact on an elite level in our society.
1:08.3	You know, I had my success with my first really big breakthrough success was PayPal,
1:12.6	which was in the years 98 to 2002 and then invested in Facebook in 2004.
1:17.7	So by the late 2000s, by many standards, I was quite a successful person.
1:22.5	And circa 2007, 2008, I thought that the big philanthropy thing,
1:28.3	I wanted to do my one big philanthropy project,
1:31.3	was going to start a new university.
1:33.3	And it was a little bit vague, but it was the fantasy
1:36.3	was that it was going to be a kind of liberal arts college
1:40.3	where people somehow got a broad education about the world. Maybe they also would be
1:46.6	trained in computer science or something. It would both be good for life and good in sort of a
1:53.4	theoretical way and in a practical way. And for about a year, year and a half, one of my colleagues,
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