Peter Thiel: 1967–2002

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As regular listeners will know, I’ve wanted to cover Thiel for
some time now.

He’s going to warrant a three-parter at least because, love him
or loathe him, Thiel is without doubt one of the most
interesting, controversial and polarising people in business over
the last 30 years.

For listeners who don’t know him, Thiel was part of what became
known as the PayPal Mafia - this group of supersmart guys who
founded and built PayPal. The company survived the dot-com crash,
it almost went under because of Russian fraudsters and they
eventually cashed out in 2002.

And then a lot of the people involved went on to even more
success. We’re talking Thiel himself, Elon Musk, David Sacks and
Reid Hoffman.

So this episode focuses on Thiel’s early life and brings us right
up to the sale of PayPal in 2002. It is a cracking story. Enjoy.