The Disruptor
Contrarian and drawn to the edge; challenges the settled answer.
Peter Thiel embodies The Disruptor through a career built on deliberate rejection of consensus. As co-founder of PayPal he helped dismantle traditional payment infrastructure, and as the first outside investor in Facebook he backed a platform that rewired social behaviour globally.
“Only after he has finished with complete sincerity and deference, describing how most people think about this issue will he then give you his opinion, which almost always happens to be something radically unorthodox. All of it punctuated with liberal pauses to consider what he is saying as he's saying it.”
“Founders only sell when they have no more concrete visions for the company, in which case the acquirer probably overpaid. Definitive founders with robust plans don't sell, which means the offer wasn't high enough.”
“That are important to our discussion today, that is. This is counterintuitive. Sales as a secret. The most fundamental reason that even business people underestimate the importance of sales in the systemic effort is the systemic effort to hide it at every level of every field and a world secretly driven by it.”
“And to me, when I say this is an example of what teaches us what not to do is the result of this kind of incompetence is your entire life's works destroyed, your personally bankrupt, you have to beg for leniency so you can get some money out of your company is basically dissolved, which he winds up getting a couple million dollars Nick do…”
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