Podcasts about contrarian peter thiel

Konungurinn lengi lifi, skrifaði Donald Trump um sjálfan sig á samfélagsmiðlum í gær. Frá því að hann tók við embætti forseta í Janúar hefur hann unnið að því að gjörbylta bandarísku stjórnkerfi og samfélagi með suðurafríska tæknimógúlinn Elon Musk sér við hlið. Hugmyndirnar sem þeir styðjast í niðurrifinu og uppbyggingu hins nýja samfélags hafa lengi verið að bruggast í tæknigeiranum - og þær eru róttækari en marga grunar. Lýðræðið er komið á endastöð, og Bandaríkin þurfa snjallan forstjóra sem stýrir samfélaginu eins og sprotafyrirtæki. Það þarf að byggja upp einveldi, nýtt konungsdæmi, segja jafnvel sumir. Næstu vikurnar ætlum við að sökkva okkur ofan í þessar byltingarhugmyndir og hugsuðina á bakvið þær, konungssinnana í Kisildal. Í fyrsta þættinum fjöllum við um þýsk-amerísk-nýsjálenska fjárfestinn Peter Thiel, læriföður varaforsetans JD Vance og fyrsta áhrifamanninn úr Silicon Valley sem studdi við Donald Trump. Það efni sem við notuðum við gerð þáttarins var meðal annars eftirfarandi: Textar eftir Peter Thiel: - Zero to One: Notes on Startups, Or How to Build the Future (2014) - Education of a Libertarian (2009): https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/ - The Straussian Moment (2007): https://gwern.net/doc/politics/2007-thiel.pdf Viðtöl við Thiel: - Triumph of the Counter-Elites (2024): https://podcastnotes.org/honestly-with-bari-weiss/peter-thiel-on-the-triumph-of-the-counter-elites-honestly-with-bari-weiss/ - Peter Thiel is taking a break from democracy (2023): https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ archive/2023/11/peter-thiel-2024-election-politics-investing-life-views/675946/ - The state contains violence (2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh_nxwTwKrg Umfjallanir blaðamanna um Thiel - Ævisagan The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power (2019) eftir Max Chafkin. - Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets (2022): https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets

Robert sits down with Noah Shachtman to discuss the life and times of Peter Thiel, the demon investor of Silicon Valley and would-be assassin of democracy. (4 Part Series) Sources: https://www.newser.com/story/235229/peter-thiel-wanted-innovation-he-got-networking-instead.html https://www.edsurge.com/nhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/01/03/what-happened-to-the-original-class-of-peter-thiels-college-skipping-fellows-nowelcome1/ ews/2023-12-12-how-a-billionaire-s-fellowship-spread-skepticism-about-college-s-value https://theintercept.com/2019/05/02/peter-thiels-palantir-was-used-to-bust-hundreds-of-relatives-of-migrant-children-new-documents-show/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/22/war-inside-palantir-data-mining-firms-ties-ice-under-attack-by-employees/ https://responsiblestatecraft.org/peter-thiel-israel-palantir/ https://www.evernote.com/shard/s542/client/snv?isnewsnv=true¬eGuid=46c636b6-b404-45df-ab0a-1f84c6fdc8c2¬eKey=7c94233539b8258d72b395a063f3c589&sn=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.evernote.com%2Fshard%2Fs542%2Fsh%2F46c636b6-b404-45df-ab0a-1f84c6fdc8c2%2F7c94233539b8258d72b395a063f3c589&title=That%2BEssay https://archive.is/ZmTHu https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-childhood-11-surprising-details-the-contrarian-max-chafkin-2021-9 https://archive.is/ZmTHu https://www.quora.com/How-was-Peter-Thiel-in-high-school https://archive.is/ncwwe#selection-887.0-891.775 https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/my-conversation-with-peter-thiel-about-apartheid-and-its-aftermath-3fdf4249b08d#.xz4kamaam https://newcriterion.com/article/the-diversity-myth/ https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-peter-thiel-20161026-story.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/peter-thiel-silicon-valley-contrarian-max-chafkin.html https://archive.is/0CtR2#selection-487.0-509.305 https://archive.is/QPFbm#selection-1173.0-1189.97 https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/19/jp-morgan-reportedly-had-to-oust-a-security-chief-backed-by-palantir.html https://archive.is/WCWeQ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/peter-thiel-republican-megadonor-wont-fund-candidates-2024-sources-2023-04-26/ https://archive.is/ncwwe#selection-1933.0-1933.1393 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets https://archive.is/ncwwe#selection-2085.0-2085.515 https://archive.is/ncwwe https://archive.is/ncwwe#selection-1913.0-1913.1159 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-09-17/contrarian-review Chafkin, Max. The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power (p. 11). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The selection of former venture capitalist J.D. Vance as the Republican vice-presidential nominee is a sign that Silicon Valley is no longer the liberal stronghold it once was. A cadre of powerful venture capitalists and tech elites are pouring tens of millions of dollars to elect Donald Trump this November – a stance that would have been shocking back in 2016. Experts say tech executives want less regulation, lower taxes, and more government contracts. But with President Joe Biden out of the race, other Silicon Valley donors may turn up to support Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid to win the presidency. We'll talk about the key players shifting Silicon Valley to the right, who they are supporting, and why. Guests: Max Chafkin, tech reporter, Bloomberg Businessweek; author, "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power" Makena Kelly, politics reporter, Wired Teddy Schleifer, reporter covering campaign finance and billionaires, New York Times

นับตั้งแต่ยุคฟองสบู่ดอทคอมในช่วงปลายทศวรรษ 1990 ไม่มีอุตสาหกรรมใดที่สร้างผลกระทบต่อโลกได้มากไปกว่าอุตสาหกรรมทางด้านเทคโนโลยี และมีเพียงไม่กี่คนที่สร้างผลกระทบต่อ Silicon Valley ได้มากกว่า Peter Thiel มหาเศรษฐีร่วมทุนและผู้ประกอบการที่อยู่เบื้องหลังและมีอิทธิพลต่อแง่มุมนับไม่ถ้วนของวิถีชีวิตร่วมสมัยของเรา ตั้งแต่เทคโนโลยีที่เราใช้ทุกวันไปจนถึงสมดุลทางอำนาจที่ละเอียดอ่อนระหว่าง Silicon Valley, Wall Street และ Washington  ในชีวประวัติชิ้นสำคัญเล่มแรกของ Thiel ผู้เขียนอย่าง Max Chafkin ได้ติดตามเส้นทางชีวิตและโลกทัศน์ที่ไม่เหมือนใครของชายผู้นี้ ตั้งแต่การเลี้ยงดูในฐานะลูกของพ่อแม่ผู้อพยพ และหลายปีที่สแตนฟอร์ดในฐานะผู้นำทางความคิดแบบอนุรักษ์นิยมที่กำลังเติบโต ไปจนถึงการก่อตั้ง PayPal และ Palantir การลงทุนในช่วงแรก ใน Facebook และ SpaceX และความสัมพันธ์กับเพื่อนผู้นำในอุตสาหกรรมด้านเทคโนโลยีอย่าง Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk และ Eric Schmidt  หนังสือเล่มนี้แสดงให้เห็นถึงความทะเยอทะยานของ Thiel ที่จะเข้าสู่ทางเดินแห่งอำนาจที่อยู่เหนือ Silicon Valley รวมถึงการระดมทุนในคดีที่ทำลายสื่ออย่าง Gawker และสนับสนุนผู้สมัครทางการเมืองขวาจัด โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่ง Donald Trump ในการเลือกตั้งประธานาธิบดีปี 2016 เลือกฟังกันได้เลยนะครับ อย่าลืมกด Follow ติดตาม PodCast ช่อง Geek Forever's Podcast ของผมกันด้วยนะครับ ========================= ร่วมสนับสนุน ด.ดล Blog และ Geek Forever Podcast เพื่อให้เรามีกำลังใจในการผลิต Content ดี ๆ ให้กับท่าน https://www.tharadhol.com/become-a-supporter/ ——————————————– ติดตาม ด.ดล Blog ผ่าน Line OA เพียงคลิก : https://lin.ee/aMEkyNA ——————————————– ไม่พลาดข่าวสารผ่านทาง Email จาก ด.ดล Blog : https://www.getrevue.co/profile/tharadhol ——————————————– Geek Forever Club พื้นที่ของการแลกเปลี่ยนข้อมูลข่าวสาร ความรู้ ด้านธุรกิจ เทคโนโลยีและวิทยาศาสตร์ ใหม่ ๆ ที่น่าสนใจ https://www.facebook.com/groups/geek.forever.club/ ========================= ช่องทางติดตาม ด.ดล Blog เพิ่มเติมได้ที่ Fanpage : www.facebook.com/tharadhol.blog Blockdit : www.blockdit.com/tharadhol.blog Twitter : www.twitter.com/tharadhol Instragram : instragram.com/tharadhol TikTok : tiktok.com/@geek.forever Youtube : www.youtube.com/c/mrtharadhol Linkedin : www.linkedin.com/in/tharadhol Website : www.tharadhol.com

Max Chafkin is the author of “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power”.  Max is a technology reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek.  “The Contrarian” isn't just about Thiel.  It's about that, too, of course -- from PayPal to his Facebook investment to his failed hedge fund, etc.  But it's also about “Silicon Valley's political coming-of-age”, as the New York Times describes it. We discuss how Peter Thiel came to wealth, and the many controversies surrounding him.  We also discuss the calculations that led him to back Donald Trump's presidency, and ultimately take a role in Trump's transition campaign. Max Chafkin on Twitter Something Ventured The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

Peter Thiel spent the better part of two decades molding the tech industry in his image. Now, he's leaving Facebook behind and turning his attention to politics. Is Thiel the next kingmaker for the populist right? Max Chafkin, writer for Bloomberg and is the author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Thiel spent the better part of two decades molding the tech industry in his image. Now, he's leaving Facebook behind and turning his attention to politics. Is Thiel the next kingmaker for the populist right? Max Chafkin, writer for Bloomberg and is the author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Thiel spent the better part of two decades molding the tech industry in his image. Now, he's leaving Facebook behind and turning his attention to politics. Is Thiel the next kingmaker for the populist right? Max Chafkin, writer for Bloomberg and is the author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Thiel spent the better part of two decades molding the tech industry in his image. Now, he's leaving Facebook behind and turning his attention to politics. Is Thiel the next kingmaker for the populist right? Max Chafkin, writer for Bloomberg and is the author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Thiel spent the better part of two decades molding the tech industry in his image. Now, he's leaving Facebook behind and turning his attention to politics. Is Thiel the next kingmaker for the populist right? Max Chafkin, writer for Bloomberg and is the author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott talks with author and journalist Max Chafkin, who is a features editor and a tech reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek. Max is the author of "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power," a biography about the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker Peter Thiel who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech business and politics. Thiel is the co-founder of PayPal, who became a major influence in Facebook as an early investor and the founder of Palantir, a mass surveillance company with extensive government contracts. As Max explains, Thiel went from being one of the most influential people in the tech industry to becoming an early supporter of Donald Trump and a key player in the rise of the alt-right movement in America. Because Thiel was a significant contributor to the former President, many questioned the timing of the scores of government and military contracts that Palantir won soon after Trump was elected. Chafkin explains how Peter Thiel was a central influence on Donald Trump's grip on power. This was demonstrated when Thiel, a government contractor, made a political visit to Jared Kushner to build bridges between Facebook and the White House at a key moment before last year's election. The outcome of the meeting was that Mark Zuckerberg agreed to allow Trump's disinformation to stay on the ubiquitous social platform. This post uses paid affiliate links.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Bloomberg Businessweek features editor and tech reporter Max Chafkin, who is author of "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power." Chafkin's work has also appeared in Fast Company, Vanity Fair and The New York Times Magazine.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

This week we're speaking to features editor and tech reporter of Bloomberg Businessweek, Max Chafkin. He's just released his debut book, the brilliantly researched biography, The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power.  If you've followed the tech world in any shape or form over the last two decades, then it would be almost impossible to have avoided the name Peter Thiel. One of the most successful venture capitalists of our time, a hugely influential power broker, in the last two decades, he's navigated his way to becoming the godfather of tech bros. His politics, his ideas permeate everything that Silicon Valley has become today. Thiel is known for playing puppet master with some of the biggest names in tech, from Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg. A shadowy entrepreneur who has aligned himself with the more conservative side of politics, he's crafted his worldview out of a hyper-libertarian mindset. From seasteading to the apocalypse to space travel to the quest for immortality and even psychedelics. He epitomises everything that Silicon Valley has now become maligned for.  To some, Thiel is the OG troll, malevolent and someone to be very suspicious of; to others, he's a prophet, someone not afraid to speak his mind no matter what the cost. He envisioned the left eating itself decades ago, the coming Balkanisation of the Democratic Party.  Invariably he's become one of the most influential and consequential figures in Silicon Valley; some know him as the first investor in Facebook portrayed in the iconic 2010 film The Social Network. Others as the interventionist who helped bring down Gawker in 2016.  If it all sounds a bit Cloak and Daggers to you, then that's because it is; Chafkin's biography is an appropriate metaphor for the questionable motives behind Silicon Valley and an indication of where it could be heading.   In this wide-ranging discussion, Chafkin and I examine the power elite of Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel's shapeshifting ideological worldview. We learn about the tight-knit and, at times, the bizarre relationship between Thiel and Elon Musk.   We also learn about Thiel's prophetic voice on cancel culture and his future plans as a board member for Facebook, now called Meta.  Max Chafkin: The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power is out now

Paypal, Palantir, and the destruction of Gawker media over the Hulk Hogan sex tape. We explore the oeuvre of conservative tech mogul Peter Thiel, who has had a big influence on the MAGA movement. In the process, we interview Max Chafkin, author of ‘The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power'. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Max Chafkin: http://twitter.com/chafkin Max Chafkin's book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609711/the-contrarian-by-max-chafkin/ Episode music by Pontus Berghe Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: http://qanonanonymous.com

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel is an enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker in both Silicon Valley and the political arena. He is often seen as a libertarian, who at one point was exploring the idea of building floating stateless cities in international waters. But at the same time Thiel is very much an insider. He is actively involved in American politics, through funding political candidates, and in tech, through co-founding PayPal and Palantir, as well as supporting other venture capital projects, and is even funding an “anti-woke” university. In this episode of Big Tech, host Taylor Owen speaks with Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power. Chafkin's study of Thiel seeks to understand how he has built a dual persona as a heroic Ayn Randian libertarian entrepreneurial superhero, on the one hand, and a vampiric supervillain, on the other. What has confused many about Thiel is how he seems to play on both sides of the political divide. When Thiel spoke at the Republican National Convention in support of Donald Trump, many on the left couldn't square the contradiction of how, in Chafkin's words, “a futurist who happens to be gay, who happens to be an immigrant, who happens to have two Stanford degrees, you know, support this, like, reactionary, anti-tech, you know, crazy guy from New York?” By seeking to understand what one of the most influential men in both tech and politics is about, as well as his beliefs and goals, perhaps we can better understand how our societies are being reshaped. And perhaps that understanding will make us better prepared to counteract those shifts in ways that serve the best interests of society rather than those of the powerful few. 

A José María Lasalle lo conocemos como analista político en el Abierto de Hoy por Hoy,. Es exsecretario de estado de Cultura y de Agenda Digital, consultor, profesor universitario, conferenciante... pero ante todo, es un lector, porque la lectura, dice "dilata la vida". Hemos hablado con él de lo que entiende por ser liberal, a propósito de su último libro, "El liberalismo herido" (publicado por Arpa), de la nostalgia y del poder de las grandes tecnológicas, pero sobre todo le hemos pedido que recete libros. Ha aprovechado para reivindicar a Rosa Chacel, una escritora injustamente olvidada. Para Lasalle a toda esa generación de mujeres escritoras sus compañeros las silenciaron "de manera bastante vistosa". También recomienda clásicos como "Un mundo feliz" de Aldous Huxley para comprender lo que podría significar el metaverso que propone Zuckerberg, "Waldo" de Thoreaux, para resolver confusiones políticas, o "Reencuentro" de Fred Ulhman o "La montaña mágica" de Thomas Mann para entender a quienes se están radicalizando hacia la derecha. En el sector de biografías de su biblioteca personal, le receta a nuestro compañero Fernando Bayo, por ejemplo, la del capitán Richard Burton, un filólogo de Oxford que descubrió las fuentes del Nilo, el experimento biográfico "En Busca del Barón Corvo", de J.A.J. Symons, o la del siniestro creador de Paypal, un libro que aún no está traducido al castellano: "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon's Valley's Pursuit of Power", de Max Chafkin. Bayo ya se la ha comprado, porque a él no le importa que esté en inglés. Eso sí: no la ha pagado por Paypal. 

Multi-billionaire Peter Thiel may not be a household name, but journalist Max Chafkin says his influence has been felt from Silicon Valley to the White House. Chafkin joins us to discuss his new book The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, and why he says Thiel's pursuit of both wealth and power has deployed some dark political arts.

Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power (see Episode 294), returns for a conversation all about SpaceX cowboy Elon Musk. Is this guy a tech genius saving the planet from climate change and launching us into a beautiful robotic future, or a capitalist huckster whose only talent is convincing authoritarian states and a loyal fanbase of angry bros to support his business ventures? As Max and I explore in this episode, why not both? To hear the full episode: patreon.com/posts/episode-299-man-57888655

We dive into the wacky, wild and wildly inconsistent world of Peter Thiel with Bloomberg Businessweek editor Max Chafkin. He recently published a book, "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power" that goes through Thiel's origins in the industry, how he influenced other founders and how his right wing political project is shaping up. Max also makes the case for why Thiel is one of the most influential characters in the formation of the current culture in tech. And Eric, Tom and Max mull over why Thiel's worldview is at odds with itself and whether maybe that's the point.Max's book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609711/the-contrarian-by-max-chafkin/ Get full access to Newcomer at www.newcomer.co/subscribe

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by journalist and author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, Max Chafkin, to explore issues including…. —Some of the most powerful criticisms of billionaire investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, and why exactly he is such a polarizing figure, —Peter Thiel's rivalry with Elon Musk and his mentorship of Mark Zuckerberg, —Peter Thiel's behind-the-scenes machinations in the 2016 presidential election and his financial support of a half-dozen Senatorial campaigns, and finally… —How Peter Thiel's anti-establishment mindset has shaped the culture of Silicon Valley over the last two and a half decades.

First, Jason covers Coinbase's announcement of their new NFT platform (2:06). Then, Bloomberg's Max Chafkin joins to discuss his book, "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power" (19:57). It's a wide-ranging discussion about Peter's life, business, and politics as well as a debate over the way Max framed him in the book.

First, Jason covers Coinbase's announcement of their new NFT platform (2:06). Then, Bloomberg's Max Chafkin joins to discuss his book, "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power" (19:57). It's a wide-ranging discussion about Peter's life, business, and politics as well as a debate over the way Max framed him in the book.

In this episode, Anthony is joined by Dr. Fiona Hill, former Deputy Assistant Director to President Trump, and Senior Director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council. They discuss her new book ‘There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century,' and she takes us back to her brave testimony during President Trump's first impeachment hearing. Next, Max Chafkin, author and features editor at Bloomberg Businessweek joins Anthony to discuss his book, ‘The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power,' which argues that Thiel may be the most powerful person in Silicon Valley—and perhaps the world.Finally, Lord Parry Mitchell, tech entrepreneur, member of Britain's House of Lords and former advisor on digital policy for Prime Minister Tony Blair, gives Anthony his take on the current UK Labour party — and what it would take to oppose Prime Minister Johnson in the 2024 general election. Follow our guests on Twitter:https://twitter.com/chafkin https://twitter.com/lordparry Follow us:https://twitter.com/moochfm  https://twitter.com/scaramucci  Sign up for our newsletter at:www.mooch.fm Created & produced by Podcast Partners:www.podcastpartners.com 

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Max Chafkin, the author of “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power”, to share a consistently shocking biography of Peter Thiel, as well as to shine a light on the disturbing history of Silicon Valley. Max Chafkin is a features editor and a tech reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek. His work has also appeared in Fast Company, Vanity Fair, Inc., and The New York Times Magazine. He lives in Queens, New York with his wife, the journalist Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, and their children. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: a.keen@me.com Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankeen/ Watch the show live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lithub Watch the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LiteraryHub/videos Subscribe to Andrew's newsletter: https://andrew2ec.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Alexis gets non-technical with Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power. They talk about a muskrat/leg encounter, jogging's hippie origins, the worst fish, ACTUALLY!, and “Green Eggs & Spam.”You can find Max on Twitter at twitter.com/chafkin and Alexis at twitter.com/yayalexisgay or instagram.com/yayalexisgay and twitter.com/NonTechnicalPod.This episode is sponsored by Betts Recruiting. If you're looking for your next big opportunity, you can join the Betts network and get connected with the world's most innovative companies hiring go-to-market professionals like you. Learn more about hiring top talent or finding your next role at bettsrecruiting.com/nontechnical.

Peter Thiel - is a study in contradictions - a Silicon Valley mogul, the so-called Don of the Pay Pal mafia, an alleged white nationalist, a Trump supporter, a close confidant to Mark Zuckerberg and an early investor in Facebook. Very few people have so much influence at the nexus of politics, technology and media in general. Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, joins Zev Shalev and Heidi Cuda.   Help us tell the true story of our time through an independent lens. Narativ uses emerging technologies to empower informed action. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/narativ.   Save $1300 on life insurance from https://www.policygenius.com. 

Peter Thiel - is a study in contradictions - a Silicon Valley mogul, the so-called Don of the Pay Pal mafia, an alleged white nationalist, a Trump supporter, a close confidant to Mark Zuckerberg and an early investor in Facebook. Very few people have so much influence at the nexus of politics, technology and media in general. Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, joins Zev Shalev and Heidi Cuda.   Help us tell the true story of our time through an independent lens. Narativ uses emerging technologies to empower informed action. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/narativ.   Save $1300 on life insurance from https://www.policygenius.com. 

Knowing Peter Thiel, a tech mogul, could help us understand why and how Facebook has become as it is today. Also, the influence he has brought, not only to the silicon valley, but in democracy, politics, and media in general. Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, joins Zev Shalev and Heidi Cuda. Help us tell the true story of our time through an independent lens using emerging technologies to empower informed action. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/narativ. Save $1300 on life insurance from https://www.policygenius.com.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Knowing Peter Thiel, a tech mogul, could help us understand why and how Facebook has become as it is today. Also, the influence he has brought, not only to the silicon valley, but in democracy, politics, and media in general. Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, joins Zev Shalev and Heidi Cuda. Help us tell the true story of our time through an independent lens using emerging technologies to empower informed action. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/narativ. Save $1300 on life insurance from https://www.policygenius.com.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over the past two decades, no industry has had a greater impact on the world than the tech industry, born and bred in California's Silicon Valley. And perhaps few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than the enigmatic tech investor and entrepreneur, Peter Thiel. The billionaire venture capitalist and tech leader has been a behind-the-scenes operator influencing the tech industry and countless aspects of our contemporary way of life, from the technologies we use every day to the delicate power balance between Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Washington, particularly during the Trump administration. But despite his power, no public figure might be quite so mysterious as Thiel. In the first major biography of Thiel, reporter Max Chafkin traces the trajectory of Thiel's singular life and worldview, from his upbringing as the child of immigrant parents and years at Stanford as a burgeoning conservative thinker to his founding of PayPal and Palantir, early investments in Facebook and SpaceX, and relationships with fellow tech titans Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Eric Schmidt. Chafkin's book, The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, explores the extent to which Thiel has sought to have influence far beyond California's tech industry, including funding the lawsuit that destroyed the blog Gawker and supporting conservative political candidates, including Donald Trump in 2016. To understand Silicon Valley and its impact, particularly on American political and civic life, an understanding of Thiel is a critical piece of the puzzle. Please join us for an important discussion on this critical player in the tech industry and American life. The discussion will be led by Brad Stone, best known for chronicling another enigmatic tech mogul, Amazon's Jeff Bezos. SPEAKERS Max Chafkin Features Editor and Technology Reporter, Bloomberg Businessweek; Author, The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power Brad Stone Senior Executive Editor, Global Technology, Bloomberg News; Author, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on September 27th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over the past two decades, no industry has had a greater impact on the world than the tech industry, born and bred in California's Silicon Valley. And perhaps few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than the enigmatic tech investor and entrepreneur, Peter Thiel. The billionaire venture capitalist and tech leader has been a behind-the-scenes operator influencing the tech industry and countless aspects of our contemporary way of life, from the technologies we use every day to the delicate power balance between Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Washington, particularly during the Trump administration. But despite his power, no public figure might be quite so mysterious as Thiel. In the first major biography of Thiel, reporter Max Chafkin traces the trajectory of Thiel's singular life and worldview, from his upbringing as the child of immigrant parents and years at Stanford as a burgeoning conservative thinker to his founding of PayPal and Palantir, early investments in Facebook and SpaceX, and relationships with fellow tech titans Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Eric Schmidt. Chafkin's book, The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, explores the extent to which Thiel has sought to have influence far beyond California's tech industry, including funding the lawsuit that destroyed the blog Gawker and supporting conservative political candidates, including Donald Trump in 2016. To understand Silicon Valley and its impact, particularly on American political and civic life, an understanding of Thiel is a critical piece of the puzzle. Please join us for an important discussion on this critical player in the tech industry and American life. The discussion will be led by Brad Stone, best known for chronicling another enigmatic tech mogul, Amazon's Jeff Bezos. SPEAKERS Max Chafkin Features Editor and Technology Reporter, Bloomberg Businessweek; Author, The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power Brad Stone Senior Executive Editor, Global Technology, Bloomberg News; Author, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on September 27th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elusive venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel has been thrust under the microscope in new biography The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power.

Elusive venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel has been thrust under the microscope in new biography The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power. Author Max Chafkin, who is a features editor and tech reporter for Businessweek Bloomsburg, spoke to former colleagues, friends, and people who knew Thiel when he was younger to paint a picture of the notoriously private billionaire, who is a New Zealand citizen and owns a large property on the shores of Lake Wanaka. In the book Chafkin aims to pull apart the mythology of Thiel, which he says cuts both ways - the left-leaning media portrays Thiel as a supervillian behind every evil thing that Donald Trump or any tech company has ever done, but that is counterbalanced by a superhero story in tech circles which see Thiel as a great investor, builder and intellectual. Chafkin says both stories have kernels of truth, but neither gets to the core of Thiel and his motivations.

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Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power and Bloomberg Businessweek reporter, joins The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley and America through.

Max Chafkin, author and features editor at Bloomberg BusinessWeek joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss his new book THE CONTRARIAN: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power. We discuss Thiel's early life, his founding PayPal and Palantir, his "libertarian" stage, his role as a major Trump backer, his revenge on Gawker, his funding of Rumble, what drives him and the future of his backing Republican candidates and much more! On the patron half of the show: Bill Gates' bizarre interview on Epstein, Jimmy Dore and his cohorts continue to get Nina Turner's loss wrong, your calls, questions, comments and more! (Episode from the 9/22/21 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

The features editor and a tech reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek discusses his new book, "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power" (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609711/the-contrarian-by-max-chafkin/).

Max Chafkin is an editor at Bloomberg Businessweek whose new book, The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power tells the unbelievable true story of Peter Thiel's rise to power through strategic investment and control over massive tech firms. From his assassination of Gawker (remember the Hulk Hogan lawsuit? Thiel funded it.) to his manipulation of Mark Zuckerberg and the Facebook algorithm, Thiel has emerged as an enigmatic, arguably sinister force in American politics and media. Who is this guy? And what is the endgame?

Connie & Alex interview Max Chafkin, a columnist for Bloomberg Businessweek and the author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, a captivating new biography of Peter Thiel, the legendary Silicon Valley dealmaker turned right-wing political operator. Music: 1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired)2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance)3. "Dream Catcher" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4650-dream-catcher)4. "Pamgaea" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4193-pamgaea)5. "EDM Detection Mode" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3687-edm-detection-mode)License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Just days before the Republican Convention in 2016, 150 Tech executives and investors published a stinging open letter condemning the man the party was about to nominate for President. Donald Trump's candidacy the tech moguls wrote was fueled by “anger, bigotry, fear of new ideas, and a fundamental belief that American is weak and in decline.” That was undoubtedly the view that most of the big players in Silicon Valley. But there was one who had a decidedly contrary view. Peter Thiel was the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir. And was the first outside investor in Facebook giving him instant entree and more than a little clout with the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg. And Thiel had gone all in for Trump. Speaking at the convention, donating more than one million dollars to a Trump Super PAC. And later serving on his transition team as he sought to place figures who share his unorthodox views of the world in high places in the US Government. How much influence did Thiel have during the Trump era? And how much power does he yield today in the insular world of Silicon Valley. Max Chafkin, author of the new book about Thiel called The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, joins to discuss. GUEST:Max Chafkin (@chafkin), Features Editor/Writer @BW, Author of The ContrarianHOSTS:Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo NewsDaniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo NewsVictoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host) RESOURCES:Obtain The Contrarian - Here.Yahoo News' David Knowles original piece on critics latest blasting of Facebook - Here.Time Magazine's Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? - Here.Follow us on Twitter: @SkullduggeryPodListen and subscribe to "Skullduggery" on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with feedback, questions or tips: SkullduggeryPod@yahoo.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Peter Thiel used to be a Silicon Valley investor best-known for early investment in Facebook. But in recent years he seems to have shifted into something different: A Trump-supporting billionaire who wants to remake American politics - and someone who nursed a years-long grudge against Gawker and ultimately bankrupted the publisher and its owner. Bloomberg's Max Chafkin details Thiel's story in his new book The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power; he talks about what animates Thiel, and why he thinks we'll be hearing from him and about him for a long time. Then Vox Media's Joe Posner joins to talk about making videos for YouTube, Netflix, and HBO which is now airing his newest show: Level Playing Field. Featuring: Max Chafkin (@chafkin), Author and Bloomberg reporter Joe Posner (@joeposner), of Vox Video Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Max Chafkin is the author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, which debuts this week. The book is a fascinating, inside look into the life and rise of Silicon Valley's most powerful and controversial venture capitalist. In this interview, we discuss whether Thiel is representative of Silicon Valley or an anomaly, and dig into who he really is and what motivates him. You can find the book here: https://amzn.to/3AwAKHB

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics “Max Chafkin's The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography of Peter READ MORE The post Chris Voss Podcast – The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin appeared first on Chris Voss Official Website.

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics “Max Chafkin's The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography of Peter Thiel, the most important investor […] The post Book Author Podcast – The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin appeared first on Book Author Podcast.

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics “Max Chafkin's The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography of Peter Thiel, the most important investor in tech and a key supporter of the Donald Trump presidency. It's also a disturbing history of Silicon Valley that will make you reconsider the ideological foundations of America's relentless engine of creative destruction.”—Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and Amazon Unbound Since the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater impact on the world than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than Peter Thiel. The billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur has been a behind-the-scenes operator influencing countless aspects of our contemporary way of life, from the technologies we use every day to the delicate power balance between Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Washington. But despite his power and the ubiquity of his projects, no public figure is quite so mysterious. In the first major biography of Thiel, Max Chafkin traces the trajectory of the innovator's singular life and worldview, from his upbringing as the child of immigrant parents and years at Stanford as a burgeoning conservative thought leader to his founding of PayPal and Palantir, early investment in Facebook and SpaceX, and relationships with fellow tech titans Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Eric Schmidt. The Contrarian illuminates the extent to which Thiel has sought to export his values to the corridors of power beyond Silicon Valley, including funding the lawsuit that destroyed the blog Gawker and strenuously backing far-right political candidates, notably Donald Trump for president in 2016. Eye-opening and deeply reported, The Contrarian is a revelatory biography of a one-of-a-kind leader and an incisive portrait of a tech industry whose explosive growth and power is both thrilling and fraught with controversy.

Who is Peter Thiel? He has been called an enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the intersection of tech, business, and politics. But who is Peter Thiel, really? This week, Joe attempts to learn more about the founder of PayPal and the early investor of Facebook as he speaks with Max Chafkin the author of the new book, The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power.