EAN: 9781526619570

THE CONTRARIAN - MAX CHAFKIN KARTONIERT (TB)

A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel  the enigmatic  controversial
and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech  business and
politics   Since the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s  no industry has made a
greater global impact than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon
Valley than billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel. From the technologies
we use every day to the delicate power balance between Silicon Valley  Wall Street and
Washington  Thiel has been a behind-the-scenes operator influencing countless aspects of
contemporary life. But despite his power and the ubiquity of his projects  no public figure is
quite so mysterious.  In the first major biography of Thiel  Max Chafkin traces the trajectory
of the innovator's singular life and worldview  from his upbringing as the child of immigrant
parents and years at Stanford as a burgeoning conservative thought leader to his founding of
PayPal and Palantir  early investment in Facebook and SpaceX  and relationships with fellow
tech titans Mark Zuckerberg  Elon Musk and Eric Schmidt. The Contrarian illuminates the extent
to which Thiel has sought to export his values to the corridors of power beyond Silicon Valley
such as funding the lawsuit that bankrupted the blog Gawker to strenuously backing far-right
political candidates  including Donald Trump for president.  Eye-opening and deeply reported 
The Contrarian is a revelatory biography of a one-of-a-kind leader and an incisive portrait of
a tech industry whose explosive growth and power is both thrilling and fraught with
controversy.

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