TSI Conference 2009 - Peter Thiel --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture -- Mr. Peter A. Thiel, Technology Entrepreneur, Investor, and Philanthropist Mayflower Hotel Washington, DC --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

From Big Think (2012). --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Peter Thiel, Founding CEO, Paypal; President, Clarium Capital; Philanthropist, gives the Keynote Speech at Libertopia 2010. --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Peter Thiel, the highly successful tech entrepreneur and author, discusses his mentor Rene Girard; the Bible, how we read it, and how it reads us; Jesus’ death and resurrection; atheism and the limitless escalation of violence towards apocalypse. --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to pete…

This panel includes venture capitalist Peter Thiel, AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky, and biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey on their thoughts on philanthropy and being pro-active. At Singularity Summit 2009. --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com…

The Singularity Summit 2011 was a TED-style two-day event at the historic 92nd Street Y in New York City. --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

December 5th, 2008. Peter Thiel says the U.S. may be facing several years of slow growth or stagnation. However, in a globalized and very competitive world, there are surprisingly big constraints on political action that can lead us toward being less capitalist and less competitive. In short, we will compete, although it will be an increasingly dif…

October 3rd, 2014. Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel talks about the insights on building the future that he gained as an entrepreneur and investor. --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

In this talk, Peter describes how our entire civilization is predicated on accelerating technological change. Peter Thiel, best known as the founder of both PayPal (sold to eBay in 2002) and hedge fund Clarium Capital, in 2009 launched the Thiel Foundation, a private foundation based in NYC that defends and promotes freedom in all its dimensions: p…

PayPal co-founder and Facebook board member Peter Thiel joined The Nixon Seminar on Conservative Realism and National Security on Tuesday, April 6th to discuss Big Tech and China: What do we need from Silicon Valley? Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security Advisor Ambassador Robert O’Brien led a discussion between Thiel a…

PayPal co-founder and Facebook board member Peter Thiel joined The Nixon Seminar on Conservative Realism and National Security on Tuesday, April 6 to discuss Big Tech and China: What do we need from Silicon Valley? Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security Advisor Ambassador Robert O’Brien led a discussion between Thiel and…

The business founder and investor discusses America, globalization, and the state of technological innovation. --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal and Palantir Technologies, was the first outside investor in Facebook, and is the author of Zero to One, Notes on StartUps, or How to Build the Future. The conversation focuses on Thiel's experiences founding companies, the state of technology and innovation, and the crisis in American higher education. --- Thiel Talks…

Podcast recorded January 2021. Peter traverses usual terrain of AI, education and China with some Covid updates and interesting takes on fin tech and bitcoin. Great to see Peter doing interviews again. I love his realistic (slightly dark), intelligent optimism. The podcast is called Unpacking Impact by CSIS and this was the first episode. --- Thiel…

February 6, 2012 - A conversation with: Peter Thiel, founding CEO of PayPal; Member, Board of Directors, Facebook; entrepreneur; and venture capitalist and Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School. --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday…

Peter Thiel, co-founder of worldwide online payments system PayPal, delivered the Commencement address at Hamilton College on May 22, 2016. --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

--- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

SEI Torino Forum 2018 --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

1.16.14. Moderator: Peter Thiel, Technology entrepreneur and investor; Partner, Founders Fund; Co-founder, Mithril Capital Management. Magnus Carlsen took the world by storm as a child prodigy, becoming an international Grand Master at 13. At 19, he was the youngest chess player to be ranked number one in the world, and at 22, in November 2013, he …

Max Levchin and Peter Thiel: Smart Venture Capital in 2011. Max Levchin, Founder, Slide; Co-founder, PayPal Peter Thiel, President, Clarium Capital; Co-founder, PayPal; Managing Partner, The Founders Fund Brad Stone, Senior Writer, BusinessWeek -- Moderator Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs have long been 'the masters of the universe,' at least…

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2013. Peter Thiel, Entrepreneur, Investor and Philanthropist Charles Bolden, NASA Adminstrator --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen are Silicon Valley luminaries, epic entrepreneurs and prominent financiers. Both have something to say about where high-tech is taking the world economy, and what is being left behind. Andreessen, co-developer of the first Web browser and now a top venture capitalist, expects software to automate and ultimately domin…

A conversation with the venture capitalist. --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel delivers his keynote presentation "Developing the Developed World" at LendIt USA 2016. --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal and Palantir, discusses business strategy and monopoly theory in "Competition is For Losers". Lecture Transcript: http://www.tech.genius.com/Peter-thie... --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com…

Speech from August 2015. Peter Andreas Thiel (born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, hedge fund manager, and social critic. Thiel co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Elon Musk (see PayPal Mafia) and served as its CEO. He also co-founded Palantir, of which he is chairman. He was the first outside investor in Faceb…

The Buttonwood Gathering 2015 - February 10th / New York, NY --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

DealBook Conference 2015. Andrew Ross Sorkin interviewing Peter Thiel and Chris Sacca. --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

December 18th, 2014 - Host Emily Chang sits down with venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who co-founded PayPal and made an early bet on Facebook. --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

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. --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

Peter Thiel discusses his encounter with the mimetic theory of René Girard and its applications in his life, business, and thinking. --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

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 …

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…

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…

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. --- Thiel Talks is an audio archive of Peter Thiel's ideas. New audio every Saturday. Inquiries to peterthielaudio@gmail.com

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 accele…

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 i…

In 2013, the effective altruism movement came together for a 7-day event in the San Francisco Bay Area. Organizations in attendance: Leverage Research, the Center for Applied Rationality, the High Impact Network, GiveWell, The Life You Can Save, 80,000 Hours, Giving What We Can, Effective Animal Altruism, and the Machine Intelligence Research Insti…

April 19th, 2012. In a fireside chat with Sarah Lacy, Peter Thiel talks about what questions he asks of startup CEOs he is interviewing, when a company should enter a market, the nature of competition and capitalism, transparency and criminality, the education bubble, startup CEO salaries, and a number of question from the audience. --- Thiel Talks…