Peter Thiel to step down from Meta’s board

Post by totesraunch » Tue, Feb 08, 2022, 2:31 AM UTC

dwmbt wrote: post #110

oger wrote: post #80

Referring to Palantir I once asked him if he ever had a Robert Oppenheimer moment - he did not answer. No more words were needed.

LOL, i would pay money to watch this in real time. another suggestive Thiel anecdote: after PayPal IPO'd the team threw a party to celebrate and he was said to have run a 10 game simultaneous (Thiel would play ten different games, moving through each board one move at a time, down the line) and was only beat by one person (David Sacks). after losing, he flipped the board and apparently responded to being called a sor…

Post by slovette » Tue, Feb 08, 2022, 2:44 AM UTC

systemvoltage wrote: post #188

WFHRenaissance wrote: post #163

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Jeez. I hate to burst your bubble, but Peter is more talented and intelligent than most of the readers/writers on this website. It's easy to make your claim when your perception of the guy is based solely on news articles and hit pieces. I don't agree with him on everything, but there is no denying that he's gotten where he is through maneuvering and foresight.

Also he is a ~2200 ELO-rated chess player. That alone would make the baseline IQ and ability to think through logic, analytical thinking, calculation skills and stratetic planning beyond most HN users, even though in a small domain of Chess; I'd wager more broadly. https://ratings.fide.com/profile/2022389 Personally, I find his thinking savagely brutally straight to the point and cuts through cultural rust we've buil…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 08, 2022, 2:53 AM UTC

karmakaze wrote: post #208

fknorangesite wrote: post #139

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Sacks telling (a version of?) this story: https://twitter.com/davidsacks/status/1248028580245692417

> Show me a founder who thinks it’s ok to fail fast and I’ll show you a failure. That's an interesting take. I've experienced both sides of it multiple times: failing over several years with the same strategy, and giving up too soon on ideas/products that were starting to gain traction, slowly--that later became clear market needs.

Post by elliekelly » Tue, Feb 08, 2022, 3:03 AM UTC

WillPostForFood wrote: post #158

JaimeThompson wrote: post #146

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I would consider it evil to say that women shouldn't vote.

I consider it evil to manufacture a false statement to slander someone you disagree with. He never said women shouldn't vote. What he actually said: The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libert…

Post by hnzix » Tue, Feb 08, 2022, 3:18 AM UTC

WillPostForFood wrote: post #158

JaimeThompson wrote: post #146

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I would consider it evil to say that women shouldn't vote.

I consider it evil to manufacture a false statement to slander someone you disagree with. He never said women shouldn't vote. What he actually said: The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libert…