Peter Thiel on Elon Musk’s success: “Maybe the rest of us are too risk averse”

When Elon was building Both Tesla and SpaceX in the 2000s, I mean people thought, you know, he was just really, really crazy. And I think, you know, even, even a lot of those of us who'd worked with him at PayPal there was, you know, this, I know there's this PayPal book that David Sacks and I thought of writing and the, you know, the, the Elon chapter was I think entitled something like the man who Knew Nothing about Risk or something like this. And you know there are all these sort of crazy Elon stories I could tell. And, and then if one of the two companies had succeeded, you would say, well, maybe he still got really lucky. But when two out of two companies that people thought were completely harebrained in the 2000s, when they both succeed, man, you have to somehow reassess it and somehow the rest of us somehow are too risk averse or there's something about risk he knows that we don't or something like this.