There are very few — and quite possibly zero — venture capitalists that have a better track record of predicting success than Peter Thiel.

The group of companies he has either founded or been among the earliest investors in is a laundry list of tech’s greatest successes: Facebook, PayPal, Palantir, LinkedIn, Yelp, Stripe.

Thiel is also outspoken in his views on politics and society. Never shy about being an iconoclast, he has railed against college (he recently said it’s as corrupt as the Catholic Church in the 16th century) and has even looked into starting an offshore colony in an attempt to create a libertarian utopia.  Read more…