Peter Thiel doesn’t shy away from taking big bets. From Facebook (he was the company’s first outside investor) to Gawker (he successfully conspired to put the website out of business) and, of course, to Trump (he threw his support behind the nominee in 2016).
Unlike many in the Silicon Valley set, who often say the popular thing in public and the thing they actually believe behind closed doors, Thiel has used his voice and his fortune to steer the country in the direction he believes is right—despite tremendous blowback. That was true in last year’s midterms, when Thiel threw his support behind two anti-establishment Republican candidates: Arizona’s Blake Masters and Ohio’s JD Vance.
But the billionaire entrepreneur and investor tells me in this conversation that he’s changing course. When I asked him who he’d back in 2024, he demurred. He says he’s decided to step away from supporting select politicians and instead is urging the political right to shift its focus from the culture wars to issues he believes matters more: like economic growth and tech innovation.
We cover a lot in this conversation. Why does Thiel believe that Democrats are the evil party and Republicans are the stupid party? Why is our infrastructure so far behind other nations? And why are Americans so impressed by the apps on our phones instead of dreaming of the next Sputnik?
Also: A.I., China, TikTok, Twitter, the right way to defeat what Elon Musk musk calls the “woke mind virus” and what Thiel’s going to bet on next.
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With the release of the Durham report what’s needed is a “Who’s Who” book of the Russian collusion hoax. Names, accusations, evidence.
Politicians; intelligenceCIA, FBI, DOJ; media, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, FOX, print press, social media; others. Who was wrong. Who was correct.
We can’t get convictions in Washington DC or New York. We can publicly out these characters for what they did, the villains, the hero’s and the victims ... including us. I’ll buy a pre-publishing copy for the correct authors ... wink wink...
This was one of the most brilliant interviews I've ever listened to. I re-subscribed based on this interview and what I would like to say is this Interview confirmed what I have been thinking for a long time. We are being called by the world to answer these questions: What are our true values, how do we want to structure the world, are we able to consistently and with integrity adhere to some basic principles that allow the most amount of people to live the best life they can possible live. And.. the gargantuan question of, when the collective group of people owns to a set of high-minded principles, for example: We all have a purpose to follow, we all stumbled into our realities with desires that can be met, we all can become who we want to be and we can be a human reality of ideas that create our existence - will it create the possibility for evil people to take advantage, or can we as human beings be so strong in what we believe that it thwarts the efforts of the evil desires and wards them off. Why am I saying this... because... AI and cht gpt and even apps like tik tok are reflections of who we are and who we have become and whom we are about to be come. This is why we do not have to be afraid of AI or chat gpt. . . if we can get to a more morally inclusive state. My question for Peter Thiel would be, what value systems should we put in place to make the most amount of people become who they are supposed to be, fulfill their purpose, mentally emotionally and physically? (small thoughts for a saturday morning- I'm joking)