DealBook Conference 2015. Andrew Ross Sorkin interviewing Peter Thiel and Chris Sacca.

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December 18th, 2014 - Host Emily Chang sits down with venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who co-founded PayPal and made an early bet on Facebook.

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Peter Thiel goes in on Uber's ethics, harmonizing the worlds of bits and atoms, and lessons learned as part of the "PayPal mafia" with Alexia Tsotsis.

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Peter Thiel discusses his encounter with the mimetic theory of René Girard and its applications in his life, business, and thinking.

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Peter Thiel opens up about how artificial intelligence, 5G wireless, and blockchain security are converging in a new era.  In a substantive and wide-ranging discussion with tech guru George Gilder Thiel outlines how new Internet and monetary systems can remedy the currently torturous relations between the U.S. and China, and how understanding money as time overthrows the prevailing economic and technological models and opens the way to a cornucopian future.

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Once upon a time, in the heyday of social prognostication, many Americans believed that gadget-related knowledge would surely yield immeasurable leaps forward in the progress of the human species. Yet as David Graeber argued in his Baffler essay "Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit," Information Age capitalism has mainly given us better ways to shop—and handed the government unprecedented opportunities to watch. Was the gilded promise of innovation a con game all along? What does Peter Thiel, the renowned Silicon Valley author and investor, think about the reality of technological progress? How do Thiel’s libertarian principles stand in relation to Graeber’s revolutionary anarchism? Come, see the future vanish—and possibly reconstitute itself—before your very eyes!

Friday, September 19, 2014

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Do you think technology is overtaking us? Legendary investor Peter Thiel thinks the problem is the exact opposite: general stagnation. 

How does Christianity affect the decisions of the world’s most influential venture capitalist? Why does he think that supporting Donald Trump is the least controversial decision he ever made? Why is it important not to rely only on your instincts or science in investing? Watch as he retells a critical board meeting with Mark Zuckerberg in 2006 when they decided not to sell Facebook to Yahoo!

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Hedge fund manager and entrepreneur Peter Thiel on the dot com boom, rise and fall of financial markets, and possible market trends over the next decade.

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When tracked against the lofty hopes of the 1950s and 1960s, technological progress has fallen short in many domains. This technology stagnation threatens not just our financial markets, but the entire modern political order, which is predicated on easy and relentless growth. For the world to thrive in the decades ahead, we must find ways to accelerate the rate of innovation and create a new generation of breakthrough technology companies.

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Discourse and action in our society are increasingly dominated by the idea that the world cannot be known. But to what degree is success in this world dominated by luck? How much of our lives can be planned for, and can the future be achieved in a world dominated by indeterminate thinking?  

In an hour, we'll look at the evolution of determinate to indeterminate thinking in our society, and we'll consider its many implications.

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