This book completely changed the way I look at modern business and society. Have any of you read it...

>Which books have impacted your life the most?
The Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald.

>Thiel
>A man who literally drinks the blood of the youth because he thinks it will stop him from dying
Need I say more?

>just be aware that it's all total bullshit
What makes it bullshit? It does good job explaining the startup business.

confirmed: it is his first "startup porn" book, let me guess you're some trumpy scrub from flyover country who only read it because theil is a trump-republican

I'm starting my own company, does lit know any good books on it?

I don’t really consider that literature. To be quite honest you have about as much chance of making it as a start up as I have of winning the lottery tomorrow

just be urself

you obviously inject it you don't drink it

>he doesn’t vape his daily dose of youth blood

Absolutely subhuman

I mean it's not that bad an idea

I've heard from a reliable source that Peter Thiel fucks a lot of the younger guys at his venture firms.

Wonder how Curtis feels about that.

What's the issue?

he probably pressures lots of them into it and purposefully hires homosexuals

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Who cares? He has to get laid somehow.

Not everyone goes to Stanford, user. And just because something isn't original does not mean there's no need for it to be heard. Modern life is in dire need of practical wisdom.

user, I...

Thiel is a weird technocrat. On the one hand he can clearly spot the disassociation of capital and technological development from democracy, and he's also ultra-right progressive to the point he would probably grow children in vitro for the purpose of selling their blood if only he was born in China instead. On the other hand, he is very asinine and basic in his claims, clearly he spends a lot of time "doing" and "working" and not nearly enough time "thinking" and "learning" (a downside of being a technocratic billionaire I suppose), so that he absolutely requires other people (as in, he is unable to even be a minor participant on it, merely relishing on the after effects) to do the actual writing down of ideas and the true jumps in cognition required to propose policies and/or innovate in technique. That book is a testament to this, and honestly if you liked it that much it means you did not read much economy so far (to put it in perspective, even Piketty's meme in the 21st century is better than that).

Ultimately, I think Thiel is kind of small fry compared to technocrats who are actually able to delve into their investments such as Robert Mercer. He appears to me a tool of tech and of his subordinates more than he is a driver of both. The book also transpires that actually, it is full of aphorisms such as "Monopoly is the condition of a successful business" that do not truly provide insight or throughout analysis of his deeds (because little of it are his deeds, so it makes sense). Note I'm not saying the guy has nothing useful to give, I'm just saying that it's not a book and not his intellectual prowess: his brand name and intentions of subsidizing the emancipation of capital from democracy (rending it even more efficient) is where his "value" lies if you're into this sorta thing.

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Would you suggest any better books to an aspiring businessman?

Honestly, this not a topic I'm actually interested in. I guess my post kind of gives it away I'm much more invested in the relationship among capital, technique and social organization, and how money leads us into paths that are clearly not beneficial to most people but rather amazing for a select few. How to be one of these select few? I don't think I'd be able to point a book who actually guides you into that, and would even argue that the elite would probably not share such a thing easily if it existed. Funnily enough, Thiel admits this in that book when he says something along the lines of (mere paraphrasing) "Every company has a secret of development and when they share this secret with others, the recipients become conspirators." .

You could probably first realize where you are, in the following sense: in my post, Thiel was a Law graduate who could manage tech experts into doing amazing (or at least profitable) things. Whereas Mercer is an actual computer scientist who had hands-on participation in the making of his products (including but not limited to Cambridge Analytica). So first decide which one of these you are and get into the corresponding mindset (managing people into following a focused path or doing things yourself). In both instances I think the rule is the same as for everything else including politics (and I know I am misusing the quote): first you do it as imitation, eventually it becomes a farce, and do it just long enough and it suddenly becomes reality.

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Get this fucking pure ideology out of this board

no u (ideologically)

It changed mine too.
Cunt's like Thiel should hang.
He's a rent-seeking monopolist, and outlines it in the book.

What the fuck happened to competition and anti trust laws? T.Roosevelt was right, hang the fuckers.

What's wrong with trying to create a niche?