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Peter Thiel
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: October 11
Banker
Chess Player
Computer Scientist
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Frankfurt/Main
Peter Andreas Thiel
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I think in my twenties I tended to think of all people as sort of more or less alike. In now think that people are really different in all these subtle ways that are very important.
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We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.
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A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.
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We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.
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