Peter Thiel on being a contrarian
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mostly cites it for specific anecdotes, such as Thiel's early Facebook investment and how he thinks about the future, not as a general recommendation.
What it is
Jason Calacanis interviews Peter Thiel at LAUNCH Festival 2015 about contrarian thinking, investing, and building companies such as PayPal, Palantir and Facebook.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2015 to 2018.
What Hacker News said
Cites transpose · 2015-10 · on “Transpose: A structured alternative to Evernote”
Hi everyone, I'm Hussein, the CEO of Transpose. Thanks for the feedback, positive and negative. The idea behind Transpose is the lack of options between something as simple and ubiquitous as note taking apps like Evernote and fully fledged database solutions like FileMaker and Access. What we found out from our research is the a lot of use cases and critical applications should have been built on a database if it was feasible, affordable, cloud based and anyone can build without the need of hiring a software house or even dedicating an enterprise IT department to build something from scratch. People have been tracking orders, leads, assets and even critical project planning on various apps i
Cites w1ntermute · 2016-04 · on “Losing Money”
Peter Thiel said recently in an interview[0] that when he made his initial $500K investment in Facebook at a $5M valuation in September 2004, he thought it would be big on college campuses, but didn't anticipate how successful it would actually become. 0: [this video]
Cites Roybot · 2018-01 · on “Why things might have taken so long”
> People always assume that the future will simply be like present only more so. Thanks for your thought. It reminded me a little bit about an interview with peter thiel where he responded to a question about the future. I guess popular culture in tech moves past ideas rather quickly and generally seems to jump from trend to trend until realizing the value of a trend. [this video]