10+ Best Articles on Peter Thiel
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Top 5 Peter Thiel Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on peter thiel by Refind users in 2024 so far.
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Secrets about People: A Short and Dangerous Introduction to René Girard
The more we understand about the world around us, the less it seems we understand about people and the way they are. This post is an introduction to one man, named René Girard, who bucked this tren…
«The true root of all desire, Girard and others argue, is never in the objects or the experience we pursue; it’s really about the other person from whom we’ve learned to want these things»
Short Articles
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The story behind Founders Fund and the run on Silicon Valley Bank
One VC firm, founded by Peter Thiel, has found itself at the center of the SVB storm.
Peter Thiel's Religion
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Palantir: the ‘special ops’ tech giant that wields as much real-world power as Google
Peter Thiel’s CIA-backed, data-mining firm honed its ‘crime predicting’ techniques against insurgents in Iraq. The same methods are now being sold to police departments. Will they inflame already…
People are 'underestimating' the 'great potential' of bitcoin, billionaire Peter Thiel says
Peter Thiel said he is "skeptical" of most cryptocurrencies except bitcoin.
The books that inspired the world's top start-up investors
Peter Thiel, Ben Horowitz and Paulo Coelho feature on the list of favourite authors, as voted for by the world's most prolific venture capitalists.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on peter thiel.
The diversity myth by Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel on multiculturalism as misdirection.
Peter Thiel on the dangers of progress
The tech billionaire discusses Silicon Valley, Christianity and apocalypse
«we don’t know how to make a zero-growth society work.”»
Peter Thiel Is Taking a Break From Democracy
It’s one of his many, many disappointments.
Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand
The long read: How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific
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