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- Apple’s e-book software will allow publishers to make textbooks more interactive. — [LINKS + VIDEO]
- Alain Soral is France’s most dangerous intellectual… (dangerous for the French plutocrats, that is). — [VIDEO]
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Tag Archives: Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel on Singularity — [VIDEO]
@Stanford.
Peter Thiel on dropping out of college — [VIDEO]
Posted in Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged Business, business startups, college cost, college dropouts, colleges, collegians, dropping out of college, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, innovation, innovations, invention, inventions, investing, investments, Peter Thiel, startups
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Peter Thiel, worst person of the day — [VIDEO]
http://www.details.com/culture-trends/critical-eye/201109/peter-thiel-billionaire-paypal-facebook-internet-success
Posted in Humor, Politics
Tagged Humor, Keith Olbermann, Peter Thiel, Politics, US politics
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Globalization + Technology = Economic Progress — [VIDEO]
Peter Thiel (the sound is weak, beware):
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged angel investors, Business, business angels, business startup, business startups, capital, China, Clarion, economic progress, economy, enterprise, enterprises, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, FaceBook, Finance, global economy, globalization, investing, investors, mondialisation, Peter Thiel, philanthropist, Philanthropy, philantropists, René Girard, Silicon Alley, Silicon Valley, startup, startups, technology, USA, VCs, venture capital, venture capitalists, Wall Street
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American citizens and its universities have experienced an ivy-laden ivory tower for the past half century. Students, however, can no longer assume that a four year degree will be the golden ticket to a good job in a global economy that cares little for their social networking skills and more about what their labor is worth on the global marketplace. — [LINK]
“Peter Thiel may be on to something, but all of our kids just can’t up and quit college à la Bill Gates.”
Posted in Education
Tagged Bill Gross, college, colleges, Education, Peter Thiel, universities, university
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Peter Thiel gives $100k to twenty-something kids just out of college. — [NEWS]
When I first heard about Peter Thiel’s program, I was a bit skeptical. But today, I have read the descriptions of their projects, and I am bought.
Peter Thiel: The wisdom of crowds has been very overated. If you’re libertarian, you should be skeptical of the wisdom of crowds. – [SHOTGUN ANALYSIS]
0:47:15 into the video I posted 5 minutes ago.
Are we suffering from a lack of innovation? – [VIDEO]
Max Levchin and Peter Thiel:
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Inventions & Innovations, The Global Economy
Tagged angel investors, business angels, capital, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, innovation, innovations, inventions, investing, investors, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley, venture capital, venture capitalists
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Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced and there must be an intense belief in it.
Peter Thiel: It’s basically extremely overpriced. People are not getting their money’s worth, objectively, when you do the math. And at the same time it is something that is incredibly intensively believed; there’s this sort of psycho-social component to people … Continue reading