Episode 1305

Coinbase chases NFT billions + Peter Thiel "The Contrarian" with author Max Chafkin | E1305

Oct 15, 20211:40:55Watch on YouTube

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00:00 Intro Coinbase News & Interview with Max Chafkin

02:06 News - Coinbase launches NFT platform

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10:59 News - Coinbase competes with OpenSea

18:39 Belay Solutions - Go to https://belaysolutions.com/TWiST for your free download of ‘The Cost of Not Doing Your Bookkeeping"

19:57 Interview - Max Chafkin, author the "The Contrarian"

23:01 Why Max wrote the book on Peter Thiel

27:51 Did politics impact Thiel's investment business?

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33:14 The repeated undertones in the book

41:40 Peter's intellectual type

42:49 Gawker lawsuit

56:10 Cambridge Analytica, Trump election

1:08:59 The "right" provocateurs

1:21:19 What Max thinks of Peter

1:37:50 Peter & Ron Paul

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