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Peter Thiel's 4 Rules For Creating A Great Business

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In Silicon Valley, the PayPal Mafia reins supreme. So much so that it is hard to think of any successful technology startup in the last ten years—from Facebook and LinkedIn to YouTube and Yelp—that hasn’t been touched by it in some way. The Don of the PayPal mafia, Peter Thiel, is one of the most intriguing characters in business today. He was a founder of PayPal, as well of data analysis firm Palantir, and is also a successful investor, creating both Clarium Capital and the Founders Fund. Yet it is not only Thiel’s enormous success that makes him interesting, but also his contrarian views, such as his libertarian politics and his program that pays kids to drop out of college. Tap on source to read it all.