10 answers answered between 2012 and 2026
Originally asked
Peter Thiel, to job candidates, Zero to One, chapter 1, 2014
Peter Thiel, Zero to One, chapter 1, where it is introduced as his job-interview question. Thiel supplies his own standard: a good answer takes the form "most people believe x, but the truth is the opposite of x."
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You now have to address the fact that we might live in so-called wealthy countries at the expense of people who live in poor countries. Our wealth is maybe dependent on somebody else from the poverty side of the equation, suffering on our behalf.
I think they have no duty. But we do have the opportunity, not to change the world, but to make people think differently.
There is an awful lot of pious theatre at the moment, where you go to have what you already believed reinforced.
Most people, these days, they don’t even believe in reincarnation. They’d say, you only go around once.
But a running theme has been how many men have said something along the lines of, “Wow, I was so surprised I loved your book, because I’m a man.” These men mean no harm—I don’t take those comments personally—and yet the fact that they were surprised that they loved a book by and about a woman is an indication of the sexism women writers are up against every time they write.
I just don't really see the dialectic between inside and outside, and corporate and revolutionary, as being as cut and dry as I used to.
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