**A New York Times Notable BookA shocking and assiduously reported biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker whose techno-authoritarian worldview is coming to dominate our collective reality“Max Chafkin’s The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography of Peter Thiel, the most important investor in tech and a key supporter of the Donald Trump presidency....

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 politicsSince the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater global impact than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel. From the technologies we u...

De dwarsdenker van techjournalist Max Chafkin is de onthullende biografie over een van de machtigste, maar ook meest mysterieuze personen ter wereld: Peter Thiel. Als grootste techinvesteerder van Silicon Valley was hij onder andere betrokken bij de oprichting van PayPal, Facebook en SpaceX, en kwam hij de laatste jaren in het nieuws als een van de belangrijkste supporters van Donald Trump. Maar ondanks zijn invloed in de techwereld en het grote aantal projecten waar hij bij betrokken is, ...

"Controverso, de Max Chafkin, é muito mais do que uma biografia consistentemente chocante de Peter Thiel, o investidor mais importante em tecnologia e um dos principais apoiadores da presidência de Donald Trump. É também uma história perturbadora do Vale do Silício que fará você reconsiderar as bases ideológicas do incansável mecanismo de destruição criativa dos Estados Unidos." — Brad Stone, autor de A Loja de Tudo e Amazon Unbound Em Controverso, Max Chafkin nos leva a uma fascinante jor...

**A New York Times Notable BookA shocking and assiduously reported biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker whose techno-authoritarian worldview is coming to dominate our collective reality“Max Chafkin’s The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography of Peter Thiel, the most important investor in tech and a key supporter of the Donald Trump presidency....

Bloomsbury presents The Contrarian by Max Chafkin, read by Will Damron.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 politicsSince the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater global impact than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than billionaire venture capit...

Seit den Tagen der Dot-Com-Blase in den späten 1990er-Jahren hat keine Branche die Welt mehr beeinflusst als das Silicon Valley. Und nur wenige Personen haben das Silicon Valley mehr geprägt als Peter Thiel – milliardenschwerer Unternehmer und Duzfreund von Elon Musk. Er ist Mastermind und Kapitalgeber hinter einer ganzen Reihe von Unternehmen wie Paypal, Facebook oder Palantir. Doch trotz seiner Macht und der Allgegenwärtigkeit seiner Projekte ist keine öffentliche Figur so geheimnisvoll....