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Peter Thiel on Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not To Name Your Company | Conversations with Tyler

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Peter Thiel discusses technological stagnation, startup innovation, and lessons from his book Zero to One in an interview with Tyler Cowen.

Peter Thiel is among the most impressive innovators of the past two decades. As co-founder of Paypal and seed-funder for Facebook, Thiel has been instrumental in the conception and growth of some of today’s most entrepreneurial and innovative companies. In his latest best-selling book, Zero to One, Thiel explains how to build a better future by capitalizing on innovation. A staunch optimist, he maintains that progress can be achieved anywhere the human mind is able to think creatively. Thiel describes how entrepreneurial thinking leads to innovation, which builds something new and moves the mark from zero to one. Transcript and links: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/peter-thiel/ Stay connected: Follow us on Twitter, IG, and Facebook: @cowenconvos twitter.com/cowenconvos facebook.com/cowenconvos instagram.com/cowenconvos conversationswithtyler.com mercatus.org

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What people say. Recommended for its insightful discussion on the Great Stagnation hypothesis and Thiel's philosophy on progress and startups.

emsyon Hacker News • Recommends

On “List of Peter Thiel's Online Writings”

This is the video I was referring to: link to this video As a sibling reply already mentioned, it's an interview with Tyler Cowen who does a terrific job at interviewing Peter. I don't have specific search phrases because I stumbled upon this interview by lucky accident.

simonsarrison Hacker News • Mentions

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Pessimistically, that name is "Stagnation Hypothesis" (edit, oops the term Peter Thiel/Tyler Cowen like is "Great Stagnation." See: link to this video )

waterfowlon Hacker News • Mentions

On “The Rise of the Thielists”

…I liked zero to one and I enjoyed reading this pasted together google doc1 of things he's said, which I think are largely from his Tyler Cowen mercatus center interview2. Given the current GOP, becoming a "thielist" progress oriented thoughtful party would certainly be an upgrade, right? Build the future, be less stagnant, etc? 1 link 2 link to this video…