Niall Ferguson and Peter Thiel At Harvard

Posted on March 24, 2012 by macromon

Two of our favorite thinkers, Niall Ferguson and Peter Thiel, discuss many of the most important issues of the day.    Good stuff!

A conversation with: Peter Thiel, founding CEO of PayPal; Member, Board of Directors, Facebook; entrepreneur; and venture capitalist and Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School.

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3 Responses to Niall Ferguson and Peter Thiel At Harvard

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  3. krakondack says:
    May 3, 2012 at 7:00 AM

    Specifically on the question of pharma/biotech, there was heavy investment in the genome project, funded by government, on the promises made by Jim Watson and others. Even at the time it was starting, a lot of solid opinion held that it would not produce a lot of breakthroughs. Today we’re seeing the downside of that: Finishing projects that did not work, skepticism about investing in new ones.

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