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03079aam a2200361 i 4500 001 3418066A15EA11ECA2E417E45AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210915010017 008 210907s2021 nyua b 001 0beng 010 $a 2021007920 020 $a 1984878530 020 $a 9781984878533 035 $a (OCoLC)1267416200 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c OQX $d OQX $d OCLCO $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ca 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Chafkin, Max, $e author. 245 14 $a The contrarian : $b Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's pursuit of power / $c Max Chafkin. 246 30 $a Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's pursuit of power 264 1 $a New York : $b Penguin Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xviii, 382 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (chiefly color) ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-366) and index. 520 $a "A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics Since the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater impact on the world than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel. From the technologies we use every day to the delicate power balance between Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Washington, Thiel has been a behind-the-scenes operator influencing countless aspects of our contemporary way of life. But despite his power and the ubiquity of his projects, no public figure is quite so mysterious. In the first major biography of Thiel, Max Chafkin traces the trajectory of the innovator's singular life and worldview, from his upbringing as the child of immigrant parents and years at Stanford as a burgeoning conservative thought leader to his founding of PayPal and Palantir, early investment in Facebook and SpaceX, and relationships with fellow tech titans Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Eric Schmidt. The Contrarian illuminates the extent to which Thiel has sought to export his values to the corridors of power beyond Silicon Valley, including funding the lawsuit that bankrupted the blog Gawker to strenuously backing far-right political candidates, including Donald Trump for president in 2016. Eye-opening and deeply reported, The Contrarian is a revelatory biography of a one-of-a-kind leader and an incisive portrait of a tech industry whose explosive growth and power is both thrilling and fraught with controversy"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Thiel, Peter A. 650 0 $a Capitalists and financiers $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) $v Biography. 650 0 $a Power (Social sciences) 941 $a 3 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20220301010417.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20220202022019.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210915010111.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3418066A15EA11ECA2E417E45AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search