A new book, The Contrarian, takes a lacerating look at the uber-capitalist, libertarian, tax-hating PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.
The fascination with enigmatic tech billionaire Peter Thiel is understandable. We admire savvy, adversarial trailblazers; secrecy nurtures the mystique even if we sense a degree of villainy.
He has a fan club, the"Thielverse", which tags onto his eccentricities and punts his libertarian, iconoclastic views. But is he really a brave, risk-taking, visionary venture capitalist?..A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.
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