Max Levchin and Peter Thiel: Smart Venture Capital in 2011

Max Levchin and Peter Thiel: Smart Venture Capital in 2011

Max Levchin, Founder, Slide; Co-founder, PayPal

Peter Thiel, President, Clarium Capital; Co-founder, PayPal; Managing Partner, The Founders Fund

Brad Stone, Senior Writer, BusinessWeek – Moderator

Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs have long been ‘the masters of the universe,’ at least in Silicon Valley. They have turned the Valley into the heart of high-tech innovation and development and have the power to make or break some of the world’s largest companies. The 21st century has borne witness to the dot-com bubble, the private equity crash, yesteryear’s greentech capital wave, to today’s monetary flow into social networking, e-commerce and online game companies. What’s next? Paypal founders and renowned VCs Levchin and Thiel will discuss what they foresee as the best and brightest of 2011.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on February 2, 2011