Max Chafkin
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The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and the Rise of the Silicon Valley Oligarchs
11 editions
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2021
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Design Crazy
2 editions
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published
2013
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2014
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6 editions
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2014
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“This group includes Elon Musk, plus the founders of YouTube, Yelp, and LinkedIn. They would provide the capital to Airbnb, Lyft, Spotify, Stripe, DeepMind—now better known as Google’s world-leading artificial intelligence project—and, of course, to Facebook.”
― The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and the Rise of the Silicon Valley Oligarchs
― The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and the Rise of the Silicon Valley Oligarchs
“In order to create something that deserves to sit alongside the best products in the world, you have to have spent enough time interacting with the best products.”
― Design Crazy
― Design Crazy
“Thiel was pulled over, and the trooper asked if he knew how fast he was going. The young men in the rest of the car, simultaneously relieved to have been stopped and scared of the trooper, looked at each other nervously. “Well,” Thiel responded, in his calmest, most measured baritone. “I’m not sure if the concept of a speed limit makes sense.” The officer said nothing. Thiel continued: “It may be unconstitutional. And it’s definitely an infringement on liberty.”
― The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and the Rise of the Silicon Valley Oligarchs
― The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and the Rise of the Silicon Valley Oligarchs
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