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Classic 23: Lessons from Billionaire Peter Thiel

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The Importance of Foresight in Building Great Businesses

The development of Facebook involved both serendipity and foresight/nThe company had a vision for a transformative social network from the beginning/nHaving a clear focus on one goal leads to better outcomes/nA company that tries to do too many things is generally less successful

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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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