Peter Thiel Quotes


When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.


Citations

Thiel, Peter, and Blake Masters. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Crown Business, 2014, p. 38.

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As a Community College and a Technical school, LATI rejects the tradtional standards of higher education. For Cartney and LATI graduatuion is not sufficient. They are one of the few Institutes of Higher Education or Technical School which takes responsibility for the placement of the students. They had an enviable track record at the time of this quotation. Founded in 1965 as the first technical school in South Dakota, LATI now has 29 programs (12 online E-Degrees), 2,000+ enrolled students, and a living record of success: 20,000+ graduates 98.56% of the graduates are employed or are continuing education 86% of their graduates have stayed to live and work in South Dakota The latter is most unusual for a Rural Area school.


Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel
  • Born: October 11, 1967
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Businessman, Entrepreneur, Investor

Peter Andreas Thiel is a German-American billionaire entrepreneur and venture capitalist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. He was ranked No. 4 on the Forbes Midas List of 2014, with a net worth of $2.2 billion, and No. 391 on the Forbes 400 in 2020, with a net worth of $2.1 billion. In 2016, Thiel confirmed that he had funded Hulk Hogan in the Bollea v. Gawker lawsuit because Gawker had previously outed him as gay. The lawsuit eventually bankrupted Gawker.