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 in Silicon Valley. They have turned the Valley into the heart of high-tech innovation and development and have the power to make or break some of the world’s largest companies. The 21st century has borne witness to the dot-com bubble, the private equity crash, yesteryear’s greentech capital wave, to today’s monetary flow into social networking, e-commerce and online game companies. What’s next? Paypal founders and renowned VCs Levchin and Thiel will discuss what they foresee as the best and brightest of 2011.
theil is the man
Edward Nista the google founders dropped out of their phd programs when starting google
This should be required viewing for every high school student in the world. Broken blueprints should not be followed and adapting early is no longer optional for the US.
I'm sure Google was a bit easier, having the backing of the NSA n' all
Good discussion especially on the theme of "end of future".
Thiel is a fucking genius. He's clairvoyant about seeing bubbles.
some pretty successful companies have been started while in college without having to drop out: let's see….google? collegehumor? i'm sure we can list a whole lot more.
Great !!!!!