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Spécial Crises (8) : A l'origine, une simple tulipe... - Boursor Peter Thiel’s Rise to Wealth and Libertarian Futurism Peter Thiel pulled an iPhone out of his jeans pocket and held it up. “I don’t consider this to be a technological breakthrough,” he said. “Compare this with the Apollo space program.” Thiel, an entrepreneur who runs both a hedge fund and a venture-capital firm, was waiting for a table at Café Venetia, which is on University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto, California. The street is the launchpad of Silicon Valley. Most of Thiel’s fortune was made within shouting distance of Café Venetia. The information age has made Thiel rich, but it has also been a disappointment to him. Thiel rarely updates his Facebook page. Thiel—who grew up middle class, earned degrees from Stanford and Stanford Law School, worked at a white-shoe New York law firm and a premier Wall Street investment bank, employs two assistants and a chef, and is currently reading obscure essays by the philosopher Leo Strauss—holds élites in contempt. Though Thiel is forty-four, it isn’t hard to imagine him in his late teens.