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“... not a vampire.’Is there a guiding philosophy that connects this bewildering range of activities? Max Chafkin looks for one in his new account of Thiel’s life and career, but to be honest he doesn’t look very hard. Instead, he does an excellent job of unpicking the disparate elements of the Thiel mythology. Nothing is quite what it seems. Take ...”

“... Mithril Capital. In The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power (2021), Max Chafkin argues that Thiel treats ‘life like a chess game’ with ‘his friends, his business partners and his portfolio companies as means to an end’. His political philosophy is complicated and not entirely coherent – but, in the main, according ...”