Peter Thiel on Elon Musk’s success: “Maybe the rest of us are too risk averse”
This is a short YouTube interview clip (transcript) of Peter Thiel reflecting on Elon Musk’s willingness to take extreme risks. Thiel recalls that during the 2000s many people (including PayPal colleagues) thought Musk’s plans for Tesla and SpaceX were 'harebrained'; he references a PayPal book chapter titled roughly 'the man who knew nothing about risk.' Thiel argues that when both companies succeeded, observers must reassess assumptions about Musk and suggests that 'the rest of us are too risk averse' or that Musk understands risk differently.
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