People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

2% of the company. Thiel Fellowship
On September 29 2010 Thiel said he had created a new fellowship called the Thiel Fellowship which will award $100000 to 20 people under 20 years old in order to spur them to quit college and create their own ventures. Bush's National Security Advisor) Condoleezza Rice.

He was the first outside investor in Facebook the popular social-networking site with a 10. Thiel was ranked #293 on the Forbes 400 in 2011 with a net worth of $1.