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Chafkin, Max.
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Thiel, Peter, 1967-
Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.
Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) -- Biography.
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Chafkin, Max.
Thiel, Peter, 1967-
Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.
Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) -- Biography.
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The contrarian : Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's pursuit of power / Max Chafkin.
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Chafkin, Max.
Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.
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332
.092
C433c
Subjects
Thiel, Peter, 1967-
Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.
Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781984878533 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's pursuit of power
Description:
xviii, 382 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : col. portraits ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"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 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."
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