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Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- January 2, 2019
- Duration
- 46m
- Channel
- a16z
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
What is Silicon Valley’s greatest reigning monopoly? How did PayPal manage to emerge from the dotcom implosion? Can you build a great tech company and keep it private forever? And how did Elon Musk manage to wreck an uninsured, million-dollar car with Peter Thiel in the passenger seat speeding on the way to a VC meeting? Marc Andreessen and Thiel discuss all of it in a wide-ranging conversation that toggles off the topics in Thiel’s new book “Zero to One.”
SPEAKERS
Marc Andreessen
hostCo-founder of Andreessen Horowitz and former Netscape/Loudcloud (Opsware) co-founder, serving here as the interviewer/host.
Peter Thiel
guestEntrepreneur and investor; PayPal co-founder and Founders Fund co-founder, featured here as the interview guest.
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of a16z, featuring Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel explores peter Thiel on PayPal, Elon Musk, Monopolies, Bubbles, and Optimism Thiel recounts PayPal's chaotic path through the 2000 dot-com crash, including heavy cash burn, a fraud crisis, a pivot to payments, an IPO in February 2002, and a sale to eBay that July.
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