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In the 90s, we had extreme optimism about the new economy in the US, and then just beneath the surface, it was this sense that the old economy was no longer working, and there was no future in the old economy. I think, you know, I think we often have this with these booms or bubbles where on the surface it’s extreme optimism. And then and there’s always a question how does one interpret interest in start-ups and entrepreneurship and on the surface, it always seems to be a very optimistic, very ambitious, and then just beneath the surface, it often also goes to a lot of anxieties around how tracked careers, how working in a large state-owned enterprise, or in sort of a government functionary isn’t quite what it used to be, or may not work as well in the next 20 or 30 years as it has in the last 20 or 30. THIEL: I think it’s always – there always are things you can talk about and you cannot talk about in that sort of a place. KRISTOL: Well, what did you find among, especially, the students? Confidence in the future? Worries about the future? The desire to change the system, or not? It’s not clear everybody can become an entrepreneur or anything like that, even though you have Communist party slogans of mass entrepreneurship and things that sound slightly oxymoronic in that sort of vein. And then at the same time, there’s also this very palpable sense that the model that’s worked so well for the last 30, 35, 40 years of globalization, of growth through trade, extensive growth copying things, is reaching some kind of a natural limit.Īnd so I think there is this very challenging transition China is going through in terms of finding a new growth model.

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It was an incredibly intense interest in technology, how to do new things. THIEL: It did very well throughout the world – Zero to One book – but probably sold more copies in China than the rest of the world combined. KRISTOL: Your book was a huge seller in China. I taught a course at Tsinghua University, one of the elite universities in China with incredible interest. THIEL: Well, it’s a combination of incredible determination and incredible hard work of the people. You had interesting things to say about that so I thought we’d just begin – it’s such a big issue in terms of the international economy, the future, the world, politically and economically. We were just discussing before this that you’re back from China – this is now May of 2016.

And I’m very pleased to have with me again Peter Thiel, innovator, entrepreneur, businessman, thinker on many topics – imaginative and unconventional thinker on politics and economics and society. IV : Artificial Intelligence 57:38 – 1:23:23 III: On the Need to Take Risks 34:51 – 57:38

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