Michael Gibson - E009

Michael started working with Peter Thiel the first day of the creation of The Thiel Fellowship. He’s the founder of the 1517 fund a 2 person VC team that invests in businesses started by young adults that skipped going to college. He’s the author of Paper Belt on Fire a book that chronicles these adventures.

I loved this conversation with Michael and hope you do as well.

https://twitter.com/William_Blake
https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Belt-Fire-Fight-Progress/dp/164177245X
https://www.1517fund.com/
https://thielfellowship.org/

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00:00:00 - Teaser
00:00:39 - Intro
00:01:36 - On Bill Gates
00:05:54 - On monopolies
00:08:47 - Dr. Jocelynn Pearl's substack on Gibson's writing.
00:09:07 - Comments on the stalling of progress and it the coming singularity
00:14:04 - Understanding creativity and AI
00:18:09 - Does Michael think science is stuck?
00:23:29 - Blue Marker
00:24:35 - What does Paper Belt on Fire mean?
00:28:01 - Bitcoin, Ethereum and the Nakamoto Consensus - Getting off the gold standard
00:31:10 - Memetic Desire
00:33:05 - The Real Tony Stark, Vitalik Buterin and Dillon Fields
00:39:45 - Curtis Yarvin
00:43:38 - Marker 14
00:45:02 - The Twtter Files
00:48:49 - James Demore
00:55:31 - Fall of the Roman Empire
01:01:10 - Michael history of interest in history and philosophy
01:16:04 - Marker 20
01:23:08 - Marker 23
01:26:08 - Marker 25
01:33:05 - What makes nation creative?
01:39:08 - Rene Girard and the Scapegoat and the CIA
01:49:32 - Marker 31
01:52:28 - Thiel and Palintir
01:55:12 - Personal Questions
02:05:35 - Marker 34