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PETER: Books by René Girard, definitely - both because he’s the one writer who has influenced me the most and because many people haven’t heard of him. TIM: What is the book (or books) you’ve most often gifted to other people? There are a lot of lessons in this podcast, even more in his new book, and below are a few follow-up questions that Peter answered via text.

He was the first outside investor in Facebook, and he has invested in more than 100 startups total. Peter also helped launch Palantir Technologies, an analytical software company which now books $1B in revenue per year, and he serves as the chairman of that company’s board. After the eBay acquisition, Peter founded Clarium Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund. Peter’s first start-up was PayPal, which he co-founded in 1998 and led to a $1.5 billion acquisition by eBay in 2002. Peter Thiel has been involved with some of the most dynamic companies to emerge from Silicon Valley in the past decade, both as a founder and investor.