Quotes by Peter Thiel

“ You should never bet against Elon. “

-Peter Thiel-

You should never bet against Elon.

Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites.

People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.

Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.

The best projects are likely to be overlooked, not trumpeted by a crowd, the best problems to work on are often the ones nobody else even tries to solve.

Most of a tech company’s value will come at least 10 to 15 years in the future.

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

Entrepreneurship you put one dumb foot in front of the other while the world throws bricks at your head.

Introducing Peter Thiel

Peter Andreas Thiel or was known for Peter Thiel, born on October 11, 1967, in Frankfurt, Germany, is a prominent American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. He co-founded PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, and was the first outside investor in Facebook. As of July 2024, Thiel's net worth was estimated at $11.2 billion, ranking him 212th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

After graduating from Stanford Law School, Thiel worked as a securities lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell and later as a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse. In 1996, he founded Thiel Capital Management, marking the beginning of his venture capital career. In 1998, he co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Luke Nosek, serving as its CEO until its acquisition by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.