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2Ebenda.
3Ebenda.
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5Balzer, Arno: Captain Future, Der deutschstämmige Investor Peter Thiel ist eine Ausnahmeerscheinung der internationalen Finanzwelt und eine Schlüsselfigur des Silicon Valley, Bilanz April 2017, S. 16-25.
6Thiel, Peter: The Education of a Libertarian, a.a.O.
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8Balzer, Arno: Captain Future, a.a.O., S. 16-25.
9Gibney, Burce: What happened to the future, 2011, http://foundersfund.com/the-future/#.
10Lance, Daniel: Peter Thiel, A Conversation with Daniel Lance, Juni 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esk7W9Jowtc.
11Feloni, Richard: Peter Thiel explains an esoteric philosophy book shaped his worldview, 10.11.2014, http://www.businessinsider.de/peter-thiel-on-rene-girards-influence-2014-11.
12Ebenda.
13Thiel, Peter: The Saturday Essay, Competition Is for Losers, 12.09.2014, https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-losers-1410535536.
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26Parloff, Roger: Peter Thiel disagrees with you, Fortune, 04.09.2014, http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/peter-thiels-contrarian-strategy/.
27Kosoff, Maya; Bezos, Jeff: Peter Thiel Is »a Contrarian« and Contrarians »Are Usually Wrong«, 20.10.2016, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/10/jeff-bezos-peter-thiel-trump-contrarian.
28Dowd, Maureen: Confirm or Deny: Peter Thiel, New York Times, 11.01.2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/fashion/peter-thiel-confirm-or-deny.html.
29WIRED UK, Peter Thiel: Successful Businesses are Based on Secrets, Wired, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yODORwGmHqo.
30Masters, Blake: Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup – Class 1 Notes Essay, 03.04.2012 http://blakemasters.com/post/20400301508/cs183class1.
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36Thiel, Peter mit Masters, Blake: Zero to One, Wie Innovation unsere Gesellschaft rettet, Campus Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2014, S. 14.
37Ebenda, S. 8.
38WIRED UK, Peter Thiel: Successful Businesses are Based on Secrets, Wired, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yODORwGmHqo.
39Carmichael, Evan, Peter Thiel Interview – Peter Thiel’s Top 10 Rules For Success, 24.09.2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjpEZBTCML8.
40Mac, Ryan: Reid Hoffman And Peter Thiel In Conversation: The College Days, Forbes, 28.04.2012, https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2012/04/28/reid-hoffman-and-peter-thiel-in-conversation-the-college-days/.
41Carmichael, Evan, Peter Thiel Interview – Peter Thiel’s Top 10 Rules For Success, a.a.O.
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44Goist, Robin: Billionaire businessman Peter Thiel of PayPal gives historic pro-gay speech at RNC (video), cleveland.com, 21.07.2016, http://www.cleveland.com/rnc-2016/index.ssf/2016/07/peter_thiel_speaks_last_night.html.
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47Chang, Emily: Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel: Studio 1.0 (12/18), Bloomberg TV, 18.12.2014, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2014-12-19/venture-capitalist-peter-thiel-studio-10-1218.
48Ebenda.
49Packer, George: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, a.a.O.
50Wong, Julia Carrie, Seasteading: tech leaders’ plans for floating city trouble French Polynesians, The Guardian, 02.01.2017, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/02/seasteading-peter-thiel-french-polynesia.
51Berlin, Leslie: The man behind the microchip. Robert Noyce and the invention of Silicon Valley, Oxford University Press, New York, 2005.
52Computer History Museum, http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/personal-computers/17/300, Seite abgerufen am 31.01.2017.
53Packer, George: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, FARAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, New York 2013, S. 121.
54Ebenda.
55Ferriss, Tim: Tools der Titanen. Die Taktiken, Routinen und Gewohnheiten der Weltklasse-Performer, Ikonen und Milliardäre, Finanzbuch Verlag, München 2017, S. 267.
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57Ebenda.
58Packer, George: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, a.a.O., S. 122f.
59Dowd, Maureen: Confirm or Deny: Peter Thiel, New York Times, 11.01.2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/fashion/peter-thiel-confirm-or-deny.html
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61Parloff, Roger: Peter Thiel’s Contrarian Strategy, Fortune, 04.09.2014, http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/peter-thiels-contrarian-strategy/.
62Packer, George: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, a.a.O., S. 124.
63Ebenda, S. 123.
64Ebenda.
65Masters, Blake: Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup – Class 1 Notes Essay, 03.04.2012 http://blakemasters.com/post/20400301508/cs183class1.
66Ebenda.
67Packer, George: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, a.a.O., S. 124.
68Nisen, Max: 9 Famous Execs who majored in Philosophy, Businessinsider, 19.01.2014, http://www.businessinsider.com/successful-philosophy-majors-2014-1.
69Mac, Ryan: Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel share the Secrets of breaking into Tech’s most exclusive Network, FORBES, 02.05.2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2012/05/02/reid-hoffman-and-peter-thiel-share-the-secrets-of-breaking-into-techs-most-exclusive-network.
70Ebenda.
71Konrad, Alex: The Midas List, 2016 Ranking, Forbes, Produced with TrueBridge Capital Partners http://www.forbes.com/midas/list/#tab:overall.
72Mac, Ryan: Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel share the Secrets of breaking into Tech’s most exclusive Network, FORBES, 02.05.2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2012/05/02/reid-hoffman-and-peter-thiel-share-the-secrets-of-breaking-into-techs-most-exclusive-network.
73Feloni, Richard: Peter Thiel explains how an esoteric philosophy book shaped his worldview, Businessinsider, 10.11.2014, http://www.businessinsider.de/peter-thiel-on-rene-girards-influence-2014-11.
74Chang, Emily: Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel: Studio 1.0 (12/18), Bloomberg TV, 18.12.2014, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2014-12-19/venture-capitalist-peter-thiel-studio-10-1218.
75Parloff, Roger: Peter Thiel’s Contrarian Strategy, Fortune, 04.09.2014, http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/peter-thiels-contrarian-strategy/.
76Ebenda.
77Kosoff, Maya: Jeff Bezos: Peter Thiel Is »a Contrarian« and Contrarians »Are Usually Wrong«, Vanityfair, 20.10.2016, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/10/jeff-bezos-peter-thiel-trump-contrarian.
78Parloff, Roger: Peter Thiel’s Contrarian Strategy, Fortune, 04.09.2014, a.a.O.
79Buffett, Warren E.: Buy American. I Am. 16.10.2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/opinion/17buffett.html.
80By Staff, A Brief and Non-Exhaustive History of the Stanford Review, Stanfordreview, 09.02.2012 https://stanfordreview.org/a-brief-and-non-exhaustive-history-of-the-stanford-review-b238185ef3d2.
81Packer, George: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, a.a.O., S. 125.
82Huwa, Kyle: The Intellectual Force behind Web 2.0, Stanford Review, 07.11.2010, https://stanfordreview.org/the-intellectual-force-behind-web-2-0-22bc6b9ec0af.
83Packer, George: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, a.a.O., S. 125.
84By Staff, A Brief and Non-Exhaustive History of the Stanford Review, a.a.O.
85Ebenda.
86Burr, Thomas: Peter Thiel speaks at The National Press Club, 31.10.2016, http://www.press.org/events/peter-thiel.
87Stanford University News Service, News Release, 12.02.1992, http://news.stanford.edu/pr/92/920212Arc2432.html.
88By Staff, A Brief and Non-Exhaustive History of the Stanford Review, a.a.O.
89Packer, George: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, a.a.O., S. 127.
90Ferriss, Tim: Tools der Titanen. Die Taktiken, Routinen und Gewohnheiten der Weltklasse-Performer, Ikonen und Milliardäre, Finanzbuch Verlag, München 2017, S. 266f.
91Parloff, Roger: Peter Thiel’s Contrarian Strategy, Fortune, 04.09.2014, http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/peter-thiels-contrarian-strategy/.
92Mark A. Lemley: On Innovation, Entrepreneurialism, and Law: A Conversation with Peter Thiel and Mark A. Lemley, 31.05.2011, Stanford Lawayer, Spring 2011, https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/q-a-legal-matters-with-peter-thiel-92-ba-89-bs-89-and-mark-a-lemley-ba-88/.
93Liptak, Adam: Antonin Scalia, Justice on the Supreme Court, Dies at 79, New York Times, 13.02.2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/antonin-scalia-death.html.
94Rubino, Kathryn: PayPal Co-Founder Understands how bad Biglaw is, Abovethelaw.com, 24.05.2016, http://abovethelaw.com/2016/05/paypal-co-founder-understands-how-bad-biglaw-really-is/.
95Packer, George: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, a.a.O., S. 127.
96Rubino, Kathryn: PayPal Co-Founder Understands how bad Biglaw is, a.a.O.
97Chung, Renwei: How Justice Scalia broke PayPal Founder Peter Thiel’s Heart long ago, Abovethelaw.com, 19.02.2016, http://abovethelaw.com/2016/02/justice-scalia-might-have-broken-your-heart-on-valentines-day-but-he-broke-paypal-founder-peter-thiels-heart-long-ago/.
98Ebenda.
99Rubino, Kathryn: PayPal Co-Founder Understands how bad Biglaw is, a.a.O.
100 Packer, George: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, a.a.O., S. 128f.
101 Thiel, Peter: The Saturday Essay, Competition Is for Losers, Wall Street Journal, 12.09.2014, https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-losers-1410535536.
102 Reid, Robert H.: Architects of the Web, 1.000 Days that Built the Future of Business, John Wiley & Sons, New York 1997, S. 9.
103 Ebenda, S. 43f.
104 Ebenda, Introduction S. XV, XVI.
105 Parloff, Roger: Peter Thiel’s Contrarian Strategy, Fortune, 04.09.2014, http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/peter-thiels-contrarian-strategy/.
106 Jackson, Eric M.: The PayPal Wars, Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth, WND Books, 2012, Washington, D.C., S. 5.
107 Packer, George: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, a.a.O., S. 130.
108 Jackson, Eric M: The PayPal Wars, a.a.O., S. 5.
109 Ebenda.
110 Ebenda, S. 6.
111 Ebenda.
112 Crunchbase, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/paypal#/entity, abgerufen am 16.02.2017.
113 Paypalobjects, https://www.paypalobjects.com/webstatic/en_US/mktg/pages/stories/pdf/paypal_infogrpahic_-_key_milestones.pdf, abgerufen am 16.02.2017.
114 Jackson, Eric M.: The PayPal Wars, a.a.O., S. 7.
115 Forrest, Conner: How the ›PayPal Mafia‹ redefined success in Silicon Valley, Techrepublic, 01.07.2014, http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-the-paypal-mafia-redefined-success-in-silicon-valley/.
116 comdirect.de, Aktienkurs PayPal, abgerufen am 16.02.2017 https://www.comdirect.de/inf/aktien/detail/uebersicht.html?SEARCH_REDIRECT=true&REFERER=search.general&REDIRECT_TYPE=WHITELISTED&ID_NOTATION=137447337&SEARCH_VALUE=PAYPAL.
117 comdirect.de, Aktienkurs Deutsche Bank, abgerufen am 16.02.2017 https://www.comdirect.de/inf/aktien/detail/uebersicht.html?SEARCH_REDIRECT=true&REFERER=search.general&REDIRECT_TYPE=WHITELISTED&ID_NOTATION=142991&SEARCH_VALUE=DEUTSCHE+BANK.
118 comdirect.de, Aktienkurs Nokia, abgerufen am 16.02.2017 https://www.comdirect.de/inf/aktien/detail/uebersicht.html?SEARCH_REDIRECT=true&REFERER=search.general&REDIRECT_TYPE=WHITELISTED&ID_NOTATION=194281&SEARCH_VALUE=-NOKIA.
119 Jackson, Eric M.: The PayPal Wars, a.a.O., S. 9.
120 Paypalobjects, https://www.paypalobjects.com/webstatic/en_US/mktg/pages/stories/pdf/paypal_infogrpahic_-_key_milestones.pdf, abgerufen am 16.02.2017.
121 Jackson, Eric M.: The PayPal Wars, a.a.O., S. 93.
122 Napoli, Lisa: Compaq Buys Zip2 to Enhance Altavista, The New York Times, 17.02.1999, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/17/business/compaq-buys-zip2-to-enhance-altavista.html.
123 Chafkin, Max: Entrepreneur of the Year, 2007: Elon Musk, 01.12.2007, Inc, S. 4.
124 Spear, Todd: The Business Proposals that Built a Billionaire: Elon Musk Edition, Quoteroller, 22.10.2013, http://blog.quoteroller.com/2013/10/22/business-proposals-built-billionaire-elon-musk/.
125 Packer, George: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, a.a.O., S. 134.
126 Greenspan, Alan: Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan, At the Annual Dinner and Francis Boyer Lecture of The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington D.C, 05.12.1996, https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/1996/19961205.htm.
127 Jackson, Eric M: The PayPal Wars, a.a.O., S. 67.
128 Ebenda, S. 107.
129 Ebenda, S. 149–170.
130 Ebenda, S. 171–190.
131 Ebenda, S. 215–235.
132 O’Brien, Jeffrey M.: Meet the PayPal Mafia. An inside look at the hyperintelligent, superconnected pack of serial entrepreneurs who left the payment service and are turning Silicon Valley upside down, Fortune Magazine, 26.11.2007, http://archive.fortune.com/2007/11/13/magazines/fortune/paypal_mafia.fortune/index.htm.
133 Forrest, Conner: How the ›PayPal Mafia‹ redefined success in Silicon Valley, Techrepublic, 01.07.2014, http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-the-paypal-mafia-redefined-success-in-silicon-valley/.
134 Ebenda.
135 Hillenbrand, Tom: »Eier aus Stahl«, Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX. Elon Musk gilt als größtes Genie seit Steve Jobs, BusinessPunk, Nr. 2, 2011.
136 Buhayar, Noah: Munger Hosts Groupies, Mocks Wall Street, Praises Buffett, Bloomberg News, 11.09.2014, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-11/munger-hosts-groupies-mocks-wall-street-praises-buffett.
137 Rosoff, Matt: Where are they now? The PayPal »Mafia« is more powerful than ever, Business Insider, 12.11.2011, http://www.businessinsider.com/the-paypal-mafia-is-even-more-powerful-2011-11.
138 Yahoo Finance: Tesla, 27.02.17, https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA?ltr=1.
139 Tweedie, Steven: Microsoft buys LinkedIn for $26,2 billion, Business Insider, 13.06.2016, http://www.businessinsider.de/microsoft-buys-linkedin-2016-6.
140 Crunchbase, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/palantir#/entity, abgerufen am 16.02.2017.
141 Winkler, Rolfe: SpaceX’s valuation rockets to 12 billion with Google Investment, Wall Street Journal, 21.01.2015, http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/21/spacexs-valuation-rockets-to-12-billion-with-google-investment/.
142 Yahoo Finance: Yelp, 27.02.17, https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/YELP/?p=YELP.
143 Forest, Conner: How the ›PayPal Mafia‹ redefined success in Silicon Valley, Techrepublic, 01.07.2014, http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-the-paypal-mafia-redefined-success-in-silicon-valley/.
144 Ebenda.
145 Chang, Emily: LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman Why I Call Elon Musk, Bloomberg News, 30.06.2014, https://sg.news.yahoo.com/video/linkedins-reid-hoffman-why-call-111652253.html
146 Chang, Emily: Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel: Studio 1.0 (12/18), Bloomberg TV, 18.12.2014, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2014-12-19/venture-capitalist-peter-thiel-studio-10-1218.
147 Ebenda.
148 Ebenda.
149 Lemley, Mark A.: On Innovation, Entrepreneurialism, and Law: A Conversation with Peter Thiel and Mark A. Lemley, 31.05.2011, Stanford Lawyer, Spring 2011, https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/q-a-legal-matters-with-peter-thiel-92-ba-89-bs-89-and-mark-a-lemley-ba-88/.
150 Parloff, Roger: Peter Thiel’s Contrarian Strategy, Fortune, 04.09.2014, http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/peter-thiels-contrarian-strategy/.
151 Thiel, Peter: A Note from Peter Thiel, http://zerotoonebook.com/about/, abgerufen am 02.06.2017.
152 Thiel, Peter: Peter Thiel, technology entrepreneur and investor, 11.09.2014, https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2g4g95/peter_thiel_technology_entrepreneur_and_investor/.
153 Balzer, Arno: Captain Future. Der deutschstämmige Investor Peter Thiel ist eine Ausnahmeerscheinung der internationalen Finanzwelt und eine Schlüsselfigur des Silicon Valley, Bilanz, April 2017, S. 16–25.
154 Thiel, Peter mit Masters, Blake: Zero to One, Wie Innovation unsere Gesellschaft rettet, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014, S. 190.
155 Ebenda, S. 102.
156 Thompson, Derek: Peter Thiel’s Zero to One Might Be the Best Business Book I’ve Read, 25.09.2014, https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/09/peter-thiel-zero-to-one-review/380738/.
157 Chang, Emily: Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel: Studio 1.0 (12/18), Bloomberg TV, 18.12.2014, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2014-12-19/venture-capitalist-peter-thiel-studio-10-1218.
158 Packer, George: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, a.a.O., S. 126.
159 Thompson, Derek: Peter Thiel’s Zero to One Might Be the Best Business Book I’ve Read, a.a.O.
160 Thiel, Peter: The Saturday Essay, Competition Is for Losers, Wall Street Journal, 12.09.2014, https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-losers-1410535536.
161 Ebenda.
162 Segal, David: ›Zero to One‹, ›Good Profit‹, and ›Team of Teams‹, 18.05.2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/books/review/zero-to-one-good-profit-and-team-of-teams.html.
163 Cosseboom, Leighton: Zero to One is a great book. But is Peter Thiel oversimplyfying Asia?, TECHINASIA, 22.01.2015, https://www.techinasia.com/book-review-zero-to-one-peter-thiel-asia.
164 Thompson, Derek: Peter Thiel’s Zero to One Might Be the Best Business Book I’ve Read, a.a.O.
165 Kristol, Bill: Conversations with Bill Kristol, Peter Thiel Transcript, 29.07.2014, http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/transcript/peter-thiel-transcript/.
166 Sacks, David; Thiel, Peter: The Diversity Myth, Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus, The Independent Institute, Oakland 1995, S. XXV–XXIX.
167 Wong, Julia Carrie: Peter Thiel, who gave $1,25m to Trump, has called date rape ›belated regret‹, The Guardian, 21.10.2016, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/21/peter-thiel-support-donald-trump-date-rape-book
168 Ebenda.
169 Zhu, Katie: Peter Thiel donated big to Trump. Why does the tech world still embrace him?, The Guardian, 20.10.2016, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/20/peter-thiel-donald-trump-donations-facebook-zuckerberg-support-diversity.
170 Mac, Ryan; Drange, Matt: Donald Trump Supporter Peter Thiel Apologizes For Past Book Comments On Rape, Forbes, 25.10.2016, https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/10/25/peter-thiel-apologizes-for-past-book-comments-on-rape-andrace/#9d5d82e4e480
171 Sacks, David, Thiel, Peter: The Diversity Myth, a.a.O., S. XV–XXI.
172 McGirt, Ellen: Google Searches Its Soul, Inside The Search Giant’s Effort To Get More Diverse – And To Change The Way We All See The World, Fortune, 20.01.2017, http://fortune.com/google-diversity/.
173 Zarya, Valentina: 3 Ways Facebook Is Trying to Diversify Its Workforce, Fortune, 20.01.2017, http://fortune.com/2017/01/20/facebook-workforce-diversity-data-driven/.
174 Mac, Ryan: Palantir Pays $1.6 Million To Settle Hiring Discrimination Lawsuit With Department Of Labor, Forbes, 25.04.2016, https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/04/25/palantir-pays-1-6-million-to-settle-hiring-discrimination-lawsuit-with-department-of-labor/#55a9aabf449c.
175 Kantor, Jodi: The New York Times, A Brand New World In Which Men Ruled, 23.12.2014, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/23/us/gender-gaps-stanford-94.html.
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