How Peter Teal Failed With PayPal

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Peter Teal, co-founder of PayPal, talks about how he failed to find a secret behind banking that could be done differently. He says if you think there's things out there to be discovered, then your probability of actually finding them are probably way higher. But if you have this negative mindset or you have a pessimistic view on it, you're probably not going to find anything. It's all happening at the subconscious level. And what's fascinating is how your brain pushes things into its subconscious.

On today’s classic episode, we study Billionaire Peter Thiel. Peter co-founded PayPal and he was the CEO until the sale to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. After the sale of PayPal, Thiel started a big data analysis company called Palantir Technologies. He also became the founder of a venture capital firm called Founders Fund. With this firm, Thiel became Facebook’s first outside investor when he acquired a 10% stake for as little as $500,000 in August of 2004. Peter’s personal net worth today is about $5 billion and he remains active in numerous tech businesses.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

06:26 - Why and how Peter Thiel is always inverting his thinking and why you should do the same.

15:48 - Why do visionaries think in terms of a tipping point for employees rather than a tipping point for revenue.

38:52 - Why computers replacing people is an angst narrative that is not true.

44:45 - Stig and Preston answer a question from the audience and discuss how much value investors should pay attention to the bond yield curve.

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