The Start-up Pioneer of Silicon Valley

Stanford educated investor-entrepreneur-philanthropist-intellectual, Peter Thiel, is best known as the founder of PayPal and a hedge fund called Clarium Capital Management. Peter believes that the Unites States has lost its belief in the future, and he is doing everything in his power to steer it in the right direction.

He is pouring his ideas and passion into the Founders Fund, where he is cultivating creative start-ups with utopian ideas to change the world through technology. He draws a clear distinction between technology and globalization. “Technology involves the creation of radically new things that have not existed, and globalization maps to the continual copying of things that already exist.”


Reference: Packer, George, No Death, No Taxes, New Yorker, November 28, 2011
 

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