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Q: Is it better to target a small market or a large one?
In the clip below, Peter Thiel (billionaire venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal and Palantir) describes his framework for evaluating markets:
“It’s always a big mistake going after a giant market on day 1. That’s … Show more
🚨 Episode 112: The Peter Thiel Interview
00:00 Episode intro
01:40 UATX vs Harvard
04:45 What should talented people focus on? Where are the best opportunities?
07:40 Peter's framework for founding Palantir
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American Optimistx.comAs a libertarian who holds the New Testament as a seminal text, Thiel seeks to increase individual freedoms while preventing runaway Mimetic violence.
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
In 2014, Forbes ranked him as the 134th richest American, at $3.8 billion. One of his hires was Jeff Bezos, who, while researching business opportunities in 1994 for Shaw, got the idea for an online bookstore and left to start a company called Amazon.com. At $30 billion in 2014, Bezos was the fifteenth richest American.
Edward O. Thorp • A Man for All Markets
Peter Thiel will also sometimes ask potential hires, “What problem do you face every day that nobody has solved yet?”
Tim Ferrissx.comBruce Dunlevie remained Adam’s champion, expressing his belief in Adam’s expansive vision and comparing him to a new-age Jeff Bezos.