Mike Solana

Good ideas are the limiting factor. If you have one, start a company. Capital is not holding you back, you are. If you are worried about X representation in Y and you identify as X, go do Y. (class hated this)

He’s very good at accepting the premise to continue the conversation. The class does not like seeing their revealed preferences

Harvard student: Why aren’t you and Elon doing more? Thiel: Elon runs two companies and works 100 hours a week. He may be doing too much. Why aren’t you doing more?

West: Greed is the problem. Thiel: (quoting Girard) “Envy in our world is the real unconscious, the real taboo. You mustn’t talk about Envy” West: Greed is the problem

Thiel: How do we get more women engineers and executives? You're not even asking the right question. The question is how do you get more women to found companies. What matters is that you start a company, that's what sets the culture. You should just start a company

Thiel: I was attacked here for just suggesting people become entrepreneurs. That's way too scary for people. That you should get off your track job and start a company. They don't want that degree of risk.