Peter Thiel on Elon Musk’s success: “Maybe the rest of us are too risk averse”
A short spoken excerpt (YouTube transcript) of Peter Thiel reflecting on Elon Musk’s ventures in the 2000s. Thiel contrasts early perceptions that Musk was 'crazy' and 'knew nothing about risk' with the eventual success of both Tesla and SpaceX, suggesting that Musk either understood risk differently or that others are too risk-averse.
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