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Peter Thiel: Zero to One

Socrates in the City

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Is There a Connection Between Faith and Reason?

In your book Zero to One, you talk about coveting. Do those ideas tie together or am I just making that? Sure, if you're too focused on your enemies, your rivals, your competition, it becomes very hard to form a team that's going to work on some transcendent goal or transcendent purpose. envy is the one mortal sin that is still completely taboo. All the others can be sort of turned into something positive,. You know, greed is good, Gordon Gecko, whatever. But Marianne's envy, she wants to be Ginger. And in some ways that's the one I'm most worried about the Marianne's in our society.

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