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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