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Max Chafkin is a journalist and senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek, known for his in-depth reporting on technology, business, and influential figures in Silicon Valley.
Known for: The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
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The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
A biography of venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, exploring his influence on Silicon Valley, his political activities, and his contrarian worldview that shaped the tech industry and beyond.
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The Making of a Contrarian: Early Life and Stanford Years
Peter Thiel’s life began far from the iconoclastic world he would later come to dominate. Born in Germany and raised in California, he grew up in a household where intellectual ambition and skepticism toward authority were quietly nurtured. His parents, both engineers, encouraged a disciplined, anal...
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PayPal and the Birth of the 'PayPal Mafia'
Thiel’s leap into entrepreneurship took shape in the mid-1990s, when he teamed up with young programmers and dreamers to launch what would become PayPal. At its core, PayPal was a radical idea: a system that could move money online with the same ease as email. It seemed insane to traditional bankers...
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Max Chafkin is a journalist and senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek, known for his in-depth reporting on technology, business, and influential figures in Silicon Valley.
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