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Peter Thiel: To be contrarian... is just to think

Venture Shift keynote on out-of-the-box investment philosophies

Innovation series by Bambi Francisco Roizen
August 29, 2011 | Comments
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Here's the video of Peter Thiel, founder of Clarium Capital and Founders Fund. Thiel, well known as the first investor in Facebook, took the stage at the first-ever VentureShift, delivering yet another one of his thought-provoking keynote speeches.

"The contrarian thing is not to be with the crowd, or fashionably against the crowd, but to think,” said Thiel. 

For a good overview of Thiel's keynote, read Faith Merino's "Peter Thiel: Don't think of companies as statistics."


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