This 2011 profile of Thiel in the New Yorker is fantastic. Incredible how much is in here that is only just now starting to bear fruits / break into the popular conscious.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/28/no-death-no-taxes

Also, not a single mention of Bitcoin, despite all of the currency talk. 

Incredible.

Yeah, incredible. Also the way he got blackpilled on Libertarianism. Clear as day.

It’s amazing how on message he has been for 15 years. Zero to One, every speech, every interview, every article, FF investments — all either repeat or come back to the central themes

I think it has to be the way that he seems to have taken a complete 180 from this stance, and most of SV has since followed. The apolitical illusion was shattered. https://i.imgur.com/AmNoSme.jpg