I’m glad Peter Thiel was brought up because he keeps coming up as this Bond villain type of dude when really he was just lucky twice with investments in PayPal and Facebook.
After those payouts plus a bunch of time in the markets, a huge chunk of his net worth is basically just those two jackpots plus not a whole lot more gains than throwing the proceeds into some index funds, maybe just something more aggressive than that because he got to work with enough money where it can be risked more than the average person’s 401k.
My submission to the world is that Peter Thiel is a really average dude in terms of talent and Palantir is more like a boring government contractor with mediocre but specialized software versus the Bond villain spy agency we all take it to be.