On October 7th 2015, Peter Thiel lectured and answered questions from Gregory Thornbury regarding the future of the developed world.

‘What does one need to do to make the U.S. a better place?’ That’s where I’m weirdly hopeful, in spite of the fact that a lot of things aren’t going perfectly these days… [A]t least everyone knows things are rotten. We’re in a much better place than when things were rotten and everyone thought things were great.” — Peter Thiel in The New Yorker

Peter is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur who has been involved with some of the most dynamic companies to emerge from Silicon Valley. He helped to found and launch PayPal, Clarium Capital Management, and Palantir Technologies. He was also Facebook’s first outside investor and director.