Peter Thiel backs founders who speak in definite future tense, skips the probability talkers
2C_ornot2C · x · 2026-10-25
An anecdote about Thiel's founder-selection style: he favors founders who describe their vision in definite future tense and skips those who dwell on probabilities and risks — "lottery ticket thinkers" get the odds wrong and invariably lose. A lens on how top VCs weigh narrative certainty.
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