A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business and politics
Max Chafkin is a features editor and a tech reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek. His work has also appeared in Fast Company, Vanity Fair, Inc. and the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Queens, New York with his family.
[Chafkin] does an excellent job of unpicking the disparate elements
of the Thiel mythology
*David Runciman, London Review of Books*
[A] deeply reported and gripping biography . . . It offers
essential insights for anyone who wants to understand what Silicon
Valley’s global ascendance has wrought—and it’s a really great
read
*Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster
Better*
The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography
of Peter Thiel . . . It’s also a disturbing history of Silicon
Valley that will make you reconsider the ideological foundations of
America’s relentless engine of creative destruction
*Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and Amazon Unbound*
A captivating, incisive, rigorously reported examination of Silicon
Valley’s most mysterious and controversial powerbroker
*Joshua Green, author of Devil’s Bargain*
In The Contrarian, Max Chafkin takes us on a fascinating journey
into the life and mind of one of the most influential, and least
understood, figures in business and politics’
*Sheelah Kolhatkar, author of Black Edge*
A dogged reporter and an entertaining writer, [Chafkin] weaves an
epic tale filled with startling ambition, cold calculation, and a
large helping of contrarian—and contradictory—opinions
*Emily Chang, author of Brotopia*
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