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
Since 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 use every day to the delicate power balance between
Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Washington, Thiel has been a
behind-the-scenes operator influencing countless aspects of
contemporary life.But despite his power and the ubiquity of his
projects, no public figure is quite so mysterious. In the first
major biography of Thiel, Max Chafkin traces the trajectory of the
innovator's singular life and worldview, from his upbringing as the
child of immigrant parents and years at Stanford as a burgeoning
conservative thought leader to his founding of PayPal and Palantir,
early investment in Facebook and SpaceX, and relationships with
fellow tech titans Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Eric Schmidt. The
Contrarian illuminates the extent to which Thiel has sought to
export his values to the corridors of power beyond Silicon Valley,
such as funding the lawsuit that bankrupted the blog Gawker to
strenuously backing far-right political candidates, including
Donald Trump for president.Eye-opening and deeply reported, The
Contrarian is a revelatory biography of a one-of-a-kind leader and
an incisive portrait of a tech industry whose explosive growth and
power is both thrilling and fraught with controversy.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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