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Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel

Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0

Born1967-10-11

Occupationbanker, chess player, computer scientist, entrepreneur

EmployerStanford University

Positionboard of directors member

EducationSan Mateo High School, Stanford Law School, Stanford University

AwardsAxel Springer Award, Frank Schirrmacher Award

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Highlights

“So the GDP grows, but it’s a giant windfall to the boomer homeowners and to the landlords and it’s a massive hit to the lower-middle class and to young people who can never get on the housing ladder.”
aol.com2026-07-19Source
“The basic Georgist obsession was real estate and it was if you weren’t really careful, you would get runaway real estate prices and the people who owned the real estate would make all the gains in a society,”
aol.com2026-07-19Source
“benefit the boomers, whose properties keep going up in value and [are] extremely detrimental to the millennials.”
aol.com2026-07-19Source
“when the Democratic Party goes, this country is over,”
asiatimes.com2026-07-03Source
“There are all these anti-Trump protests: we don’t want kings, we want rule of law,”
keyt.com2026-07-02Source
“The Republican Party doesn’t matter that much. It’s the less important one,”
keyt.com2026-07-02Source
“working for the Chinese Communists.”
keyt.com2026-07-02Source
“My generation was the first one where things felt really stuck,”
foxnews.com2026-07-01Source
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“So the GDP grows, but it’s a giant windfall to the boomer homeowners and to the landlords and it’s a massive hit to the lower-middle class and to young people who can never get on the housing ladder.”
aol.com2026-07-19Source
“The basic Georgist obsession was real estate and it was if you weren’t really careful, you would get runaway real estate prices and the people who owned the real estate would make all the gains in a society,”
aol.com2026-07-19Source
“benefit the boomers, whose properties keep going up in value and [are] extremely detrimental to the millennials.”
aol.com2026-07-19Source
“when the Democratic Party goes, this country is over,”
asiatimes.com2026-07-03Source
“There are all these anti-Trump protests: we don’t want kings, we want rule of law,”
keyt.com2026-07-02Source
“The Republican Party doesn’t matter that much. It’s the less important one,”
keyt.com2026-07-02Source
“working for the Chinese Communists.”
keyt.com2026-07-02Source
“My generation was the first one where things felt really stuck,”
foxnews.com2026-07-01Source
“Georgist real estate catastrophe”
aol.com2026-07-19Source
“a democratic-socialist takeover of the Democratic Party,”
asiatimes.com2026-07-03Source
“When the Democratic Party goes, this country is over.”
keyt.com2026-07-02Source
“I think there’s going to be a democratic-socialist takeover of the Democratic Party,”
keyt.com2026-07-02Source

Works Timeline

2015

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