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Peter Thiel on what he would look for if he was joining a startup
In the clip below, Wharton professor Adam Grant asks Peter Thiel what he would look for if he was joining an early-stage startup. Thiel gives a simple response:
“Do you like the people? Do you think you could become good... See more
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Peter Thiel recruited Reid Hoffman, Chad Hurley, Sam Altman, David Sacks, and Keith Rabois. Also partnered with Elon Musk.
He's used these 4 questions time and time again to identify 20-year-olds who would go on to be billionaires.
Test yourself with these questions: https://t.co/z3dUHFcuPQ
This is Bill Gurley
He is a former GP at Benchmark, a leading venture capital firm, and in his most recent interview, he provides his latest view on the market - Long🧵
1) Mega Venture Fund Rise
2) Misaligned Incentives & Zombie Unicorns
3) Permanent... See more
Peter Thiel doesn’t need much of an intro. He has been at both sides of the fundraising table, sometimes concurrently. He first invested in a precursor to what would become PayPal and soon after joined it in the early days as a co-founder and CEO. Later he founded and invested in Palantir, which specializes in big-data analytics. In August 2004,
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