Comment by Over2Chars
19 days ago
His lack of depth is obvious even from his speeches. He jumps from topic to topic and doesn't develop his ideas or show much internal organization. He has a pithy insight and then bounces to the next topic.
That said, if a 60 minute talk can provide even one useful insight that's useful, I'd say it's a win. And I think his "zero to one" talk had at least two or three.
Honestly, I concluded GOOG was an advertising company pretending to be a "tech" company some time ago, but if I say it I'm a "troll", if Thiel says it, well it might be true, right?
Advertising is the highest tech problem you can tackle. It literally is about using compute to bend the will of humans. How do you not get that?
If Advertising is the "highest tech problem" that can be tackled, I guess we're in for a rough ride.
I'd assume at least a dozen things are more important than advertising inexpensive Chinese made socks to Americans. But I could be wrong.
If by highest you mean, "most lucrative" then yes, I agree.