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100 1  Chafkin, Max,|eauthor. 
245 14 The contrarian|h[electronic resource] :|bPeter Thiel and 
       Silicon Valley's pursuit of power /|cMax Chafkin. 
264  1 New York :|bPenguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random 
       House LLC,|c[2021] 
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511 0  Read by Will Damron. 
520    "A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter 
       Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely 
       influential power broker who sits at the dynamic 
       intersection of tech, business, and politics Since the 
       days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry 
       has made a greater impact on the world than Silicon 
       Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape 
       Silicon Valley than billionaire venture capitalist and 
       entrepreneur Peter Thiel. From the technologies we use 
       every day to the delicate power balance between Silicon 
       Valley, Wall Street, and Washington, Thiel has been a 
       behind-the-scenes operator influencing countless aspects 
       of our contemporary way of life. But despite his power and
       the ubiquity of his projects, no public figure is quite so
       mysterious. In the first major biography of Thiel, Max 
       Chafkin traces the trajectory of the innovator's singular 
       life and worldview, from his upbringing as the child of 
       immigrant parents and years at Stanford as a burgeoning 
       conservative thought leader to his founding of PayPal and 
       Palantir, early investment in Facebook and SpaceX, and 
       relationships with fellow tech titans Mark Zuckerberg, 
       Elon Musk, and Eric Schmidt. The Contrarian illuminates 
       the extent to which Thiel has sought to export his values 
       to the corridors of power beyond Silicon Valley, including
       funding the lawsuit that bankrupted the blog Gawker to 
       strenuously backing far-right political candidates, 
       including Donald Trump for president in 2016. Eye-opening 
       and deeply reported, The Contrarian is a revelatory 
       biography of a one-of-a-kind leader and an incisive 
       portrait of a tech industry whose explosive growth and 
       power is both thrilling and fraught with controversy"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
533    Electronic reproduction.|bNew York|cPenguin Random House 
       Audio Publishing Group|d2021|nAvailable via World Wide 
       Web. 
600 10 Thiel, Peter A. 
650  0 Capitalists and financiers|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Power (Social sciences) 
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776 08 |iOnline version:|aChafkin, Max.|tThe contrarian|dNew York
       : Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 
       [2021]|z9781984878540|w(DLC) 2021007921 
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