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Twitter is hard to evaluate. They have a lot of potential. It's a horribly mismanaged company — probably a lot of pot-smoking going on there. But it's such a solid franchise it may even work with all that.

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Peter Thiel
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 11
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