"We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters."
Peter Thiel is a paradox wrapped in a riddle—a billionaire investor who believes competition is for losers, a libertarian who backed Donald Trump, and a tech visionary who now warns the world about the coming of the Antichrist. Behind the enigmatic facade of this PayPal co-founder and Silicon Valley contrarian lies the mind of an archetypal Enneagram Type 6: The Loyalist.
In June 2025, when Ross Douthat asked Thiel whether he might be ushering in the Antichrist through his technological ventures, there was a telling pause. "There are all these different scenarios," Thiel finally responded. "I obviously don't think that's what I'm doing." That hesitation—that self-questioning—reveals everything about the Type 6 mind: constantly vigilant, perpetually scanning for hidden dangers, even questioning one's own role in potential catastrophes.
While many see only the headlines about his controversial investments or apocalyptic warnings, there's a fascinating psychological architecture at play. Some critics dismiss him as power-hungry, a billionaire playing god with technology and politics. But look closer at his story: it's not marked by the pursuit of power—it's marked by something far more primal. Fear.
Understanding Thiel: Fear, Not Power
When you examine Thiel's major life decisions, a pattern emerges. He left a prestigious legal career after just seven months. He left Silicon Valley for Los Angeles, distancing himself from the tech establishment. He supported Trump when his entire social circle recoiled in horror. He keeps a parachute in his office. He bought property in New Zealand as an escape hatch. He invests in life extension technologies to escape death itself.
These aren't the moves of someone drunk on power. These are the calculated hedges of someone constantly preparing for catastrophe.
As one observer put it: "He isn't power hungry, he is scared of a specific future and is constantly talking about it. He makes good investments because he is constantly thinking of the downsides."
This is the essence of Enneagram Type 6: a deep-seated need for safety combined with hypervigilance against potential threats. And Thiel's obsession with security, his skepticism of conventional wisdom, and his uncanny ability to spot what others miss all point to this complex inner architecture.
The Essence of Enneagram Type 6: The Loyalist
At the core of every Type 6 is a deep-seated need for safety and a vigilance against potential threats. This vigilance isn't just paranoia—it's a finely-tuned radar for detecting dangers others might miss.
Sometime in their childhood, Enneagram Type 6s learned a crucial lesson: be careful who you trust. Perhaps they experienced betrayal, or maybe they reached out for help only to be let down. Whatever the catalyst, this formative experience plants a seed of wariness that grows into a sophisticated system for questioning everything and everyone in an attempt to find the security they deeply crave.
For Peter Thiel, this foundation likely began forming early. Born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1967, his family emigrated to the United States when he was just one year old, settling first in Cleveland, Ohio. The Thiels then moved to South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia), where young Peter was uprooted repeatedly, changing schools seven times during his formative years.
"He attended a school in Swakopmund that required students to wear uniforms and utilized corporal punishment, such as striking students' hands with a ruler. He said this experience instilled a distaste for uniformity and regimentation later reflected in his support for individualism and libertarianism."
-Wikipedia
This constant displacement and exposure to authoritarian education systems may have been where Peter first tasted the bitter lesson of institutional unreliability. When those who should protect you instead enforce rigid conformity through pain, the seed of skepticism takes root. His experiences as a cultural outsider—a German-American in Africa, then later a conservative intellectual in liberal Silicon Valley—further reinforced his outsider perspective.
Despite these challenges (or perhaps because of them), Thiel excelled academically. He became a nationally ranked chess player by age 12, showcasing his strategic mind and ability to think several moves ahead—a skill that would serve him well in business. After returning to the United States, he attended Stanford University and then Stanford Law School, seemingly on track for a conventional elite career path.
But the conventional path didn't satisfy his Type 6 need to question everything. He started clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, but left after just seven months. The predetermined career trajectory laid before him felt like a trap rather than an opportunity. In a classic counterphobic Type 6 move, he abandoned the security of a prestigious legal career for the uncertainty of entrepreneurship.
At age 30, in 1996, he raised $1 million to establish Thiel Capital Management. Peter the venture capitalist was born, and his contrarian thinking found its perfect playground—one where he could put his money behind his convictions and test his theories about the world.
His famous interview question, "Tell me something that's true, that almost nobody agrees with you on" isn't just a quirky hiring tactic—it's the perfect distillation of his Type 6 approach to venture capital and life itself. He's not interested in consensus; he's interested in hidden truths that might provide an edge or reveal an overlooked danger.
The Stagnation Thesis: A Type 6's Nightmare
In 2011, Thiel introduced a thesis that would define his worldview: America is experiencing technological and economic stagnation. His famous lament—"We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters"—neatly captured a worldview that technological stagnation poses an existential threat to Western civilization.
For a Type 6, stagnation isn't just disappointing—it's terrifying. Without progress, institutions "unravel" and the middle class, defined as those expecting their children to prosper, collapses. As Thiel argues, Western society depends on growth. A degrowth society would be dreary and oppressive, "more like North Korea than some solarpunk fantasy."
When Ross Douthat asked him in June 2025 whether he still believed in the stagnation thesis fourteen years later, Thiel's answer was unequivocal: "Yes. I still broadly believe in the stagnation thesis." He clarified: "It was never an absolute thesis. The claim was not that we were absolutely, completely stuck; it was in some ways a claim about how the velocity had slowed."
This isn't pessimism for its own sake. It's the Type 6's radar detecting a slow-moving catastrophe that others don't see. While the world celebrates each new app and AI chatbot, Thiel sees the absence of flying cars, nuclear fusion, and Mars colonies. He sees the gap between what we could have achieved and what we did achieve—and that gap represents danger.
The velocity has slowed. For Thiel, this isn't an economic statistic—it's a warning siren.
The Contrarian Investor: Security Through Innovation
What makes Peter Thiel exceptional as an investor is his ability to find counterintuitive truths and secrets that others miss. In his book "Zero to One," he argues that the most valuable businesses are monopolies—companies that are so innovative they create entirely new categories rather than competing in existing ones. This counterintuitive thinking exemplifies the Type 6's ability to question fundamental assumptions that others take for granted.
Thiel excels at holding seemingly contradictory views simultaneously—another hallmark of Type 6 cognition. He can see both the potential catastrophic risks in technology (hence his investments in doomsday preparations and remote New Zealand property) while simultaneously believing technology is our salvation. This cognitive flexibility allows him to spot opportunities where others see only contradictions.
His approach to venture capitalism is security-seeking at its core. Rather than spreading small investments across many startups (the conventional VC approach), Thiel makes fewer, larger bets on companies he believes have monopolistic potential. This isn't just about maximizing returns—it's about finding the ideas so transformative they create their own protective moats against competition.
"The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them," Thiel has said. This statement reflects his Type 6 tendency to look beyond the obvious, always searching for the next paradigm shift that others might miss.
When Thiel invested in Facebook in 2004—becoming the first major outside investor with a $500,000 check for 10.2% of the company—he didn't just see a college social network. He saw the potential for a platform that would transform how humans connect, and thus become essential infrastructure rather than just another website. This ability to see the security in apparent risk is quintessentially Type 6.
In the 2024-2025 period, Founders Fund (which Thiel co-founded) continued this pattern with strategic investments: an unprecedented $1 billion in Anduril (the largest in the fund's history), $85 million in UAE's SentientAGI, and significant stakes in Erebor, Impulse Space, and Varda. Each represents a bet on transformative technology that could reshape entire industries—exactly the kind of "monopolistic" innovation Thiel seeks.
The PayPal Mafia: Building a Fortress of Trust
Thiel's co-founding of PayPal in 1998 (through the merger of his company Confinity with Elon Musk's X.com) perfectly exemplifies his Type 6 desire for security, particularly in the financial realm. PayPal's mission wasn't just about making online payments easier—it was about creating a new, more secure financial system outside traditional banking.
Thiel even initially envisioned PayPal as a "new world currency" that could bypass government controls—a libertarian dream of financial security through technology rather than institutions. While this vision was later modified toward more practical goals, it reflects the Type 6's desire to build systems more trustworthy than existing power structures.
At PayPal, Thiel implemented a unique management structure that revealed his Type 6 approach to organizational security. As David Sacks, a member of the PayPal Mafia, recalled, "Peter's management style was to give everyone a clear, specific role and then hold them accountable for it." This minimized internal conflicts by preventing overlapping responsibilities and created clarity in a chaotic startup environment.
This management philosophy connects to Thiel's now-famous assertion that "competition is for losers." He argues that when companies compete directly, all profits get competed away, leaving nothing for innovation or growth. Instead, he advocates for creating monopolies through genuine innovation—companies so unique they don't have direct competitors.
This insight likely draws inspiration from René Girard's mimetic theory, which Thiel studied deeply as a Stanford student. The connection between his management philosophy, investment strategy, and philosophical interests shows how the Type 6 mind creates coherent structures from seemingly disparate elements—always seeking security through unique insights and systemic understanding.
Mimetic Theory and Paranoia: The World Through a Type 6 Lens
Thiel's fascination with René Girard's mimetic theory offers a window into his Type 6 worldview. Girard proposed that human desire is fundamentally imitative—we want things because others want them. This leads to competition, conflict, and eventually scapegoating mechanisms to resolve social tensions.
For a Type 6 like Thiel, this theory doesn't just explain human behavior; it provides a framework for navigating a dangerous world of mimetic competition. If everyone wants the same things because everyone else wants them, true security comes from wanting what others don't yet recognize as valuable—from seeing what others miss.
In business terms, this translates to Thiel's focus on "secrets"—important truths few people agree with or act upon. "The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself," he writes in Zero to One. This isn't mere contrarianism; it's a Type 6 security strategy: find the valuable truth before the mimetic crowd arrives, driving up competition and costs.
This perspective explains both Thiel's investment strategy and his infamous preparedness measures. From stocking survival supplies to acquiring New Zealand citizenship and property as a potential escape from societal collapse, Thiel's actions reflect the Type 6's need to prepare for worst-case scenarios while still functioning effectively in the present.
As Peter himself has said: "I think there is a significant risk that we don't make it to the 22nd century." While others might dismiss such concerns as paranoid, the Type 6 sees preparation for unlikely but catastrophic outcomes as simply rational risk management.
The Search for Immortality: The Ultimate Security
Perhaps nothing reveals Thiel's Type 6 nature more clearly than his investments in life extension and anti-aging research. What greater security could exist than overcoming mortality itself? Through his funding of companies like Unity Biotechnology and the SENS Research Foundation, Thiel has put millions behind the quest to extend human lifespan.
"I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society," Thiel has stated. This sentiment captures the Type 6's complicated relationship with authority—accepting biological reality while simultaneously seeking to overcome its limitations.
His interest in parabiosis—the controversial idea of using young people's blood to revitalize older individuals—further illustrates this pursuit. While some mock these interests, they reflect a deeply Type 6 approach to the ultimate insecurity: death itself.
"Death is a problem that can be solved," Thiel has said. This framing of mortality as a technical challenge rather than an inevitable fate perfectly captures the Type 6's tendency to question even the most fundamental assumptions about human existence.
But in his 2025 interview with Ross Douthat, Thiel revealed a more nuanced, even critical view of current transhumanist efforts. When asked about taking more scientific risks in life extension, Thiel expressed frustration that the ambitions are too modest. "It's more than a nothing burger, and it's less than the total transformation of our society," he said of current longevity research.
The Type 6 pattern emerges again: dissatisfaction with half-measures, fear that we're not taking the threat of mortality seriously enough, worry that incremental progress might lull us into complacency when we need revolutionary breakthroughs.
The Political Contrarian: Making America Great Again?
Thiel's political journey reveals the complex, sometimes contradictory nature of the Type 6 personality. A self-described libertarian who champions individual freedom, he nevertheless supported Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016 when most Silicon Valley elites recoiled in horror. He even spoke at the 2016 Republican National Convention, declaring, "I am proud to be gay, I am proud to be a Republican, but most of all, I am proud to be an American."
This stance puzzled many observers, but makes perfect sense through the Enneagram Type 6 lens. The counterphobic wing of Type 6 often takes bold, seemingly contradictory positions that challenge conventional wisdom. By backing Trump before it was acceptable in his social circle, Thiel demonstrated his independence from groupthink—a core Type 6 value.
It's been reported that Thiel was instrumental in reviving Ronald Reagan's "Make America Great Again" slogan for the Trump campaign. This historical connection reflects the Type 6's attention to patterns and precedents that others might overlook. It also highlights Thiel's skepticism toward progressive narratives of continuous improvement, suggesting instead that America had declined from previous heights.
When Douthat asked in 2025 whether Trump had lived up to his expectations, Thiel gave a characteristically Type 6 answer—acknowledging both successes and failures. He praised Trump as a disruptive force against "sclerotic elites" and stagnant institutions, seeing him as "the best bet for clearing out" entrenched power structures. But Thiel also expressed disappointment that more fundamental transformation hadn't occurred.
Notably, Thiel didn't donate to Trump's 2024 campaign, despite having given $15 million to JD Vance and $20 million to Blake Masters in 2022. This strategic withdrawal isn't abandonment—it's classic Type 6 hedging. By the time Trump entered office in 2025, Thiel had positioned his allies throughout the administration while maintaining plausible distance himself.
His political thinking shows the sophisticated pattern-recognition abilities of the Type 6. While others might see only chaos in political developments, Thiel discerns underlying structures and cycles. "I do think there's sort of a libertarian bent to my thinking, on a personal level," he once explained. "But then I also think it's not the whole story. And so I've been willing to endorse political candidates."
Palantir and the Surveillance Paradox
By 2025, the consequences of Thiel's political positioning became impossible to ignore. Palantir Technologies, the data analytics and surveillance company he co-founded, saw its stock surge more than 90% following Trump's election. Since Trump took office, Palantir secured over $113 million in federal spending, plus a massive $800 million Pentagon deal.
In December 2024, Palantir joined with Anduril (backed heavily by Founders Fund) to form a consortium with SpaceX, OpenAI, and Scale AI, explicitly challenging traditional defense contractors. Then in early 2025, the Trump-appointed FHFA director announced a partnership with Palantir introducing an AI-powered Crime Detection Unit at Fannie Mae—a domestic surveillance application that sparked immediate controversy.
Here's where the Type 6 paradox becomes most apparent. Thiel warns about totalitarian control through technology. He speaks of the Antichrist rising through fear-based surveillance states. Yet his own company builds the very tools that could enable such control.
Critics see hypocrisy. But through the Type 6 lens, we see something else: a man trying to ensure the "right" people control the dangerous technology. The Type 6 doesn't trust anyone fully—not even themselves—but they trust some scenarios more than others. Better that Thiel's Palantir builds the surveillance tools than some unknown future entity he can't influence.
It's a dangerous gamble, and Thiel knows it. When protesters gathered outside Palantir's offices in August 2025, criticizing the company's role in "surveillance and militarization under the Trump administration," they weren't wrong about the threat. They just misunderstood the motivation.
It's fear, not power. Always fear.
The Antichrist Lectures: Fear's Ultimate Form
In September 2025, Peter Thiel did something that shocked even those familiar with his unconventional thinking: he delivered a sold-out four-part lecture series at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club titled simply, "The Antichrist."
Drawing on René Girard's philosophy alongside thinkers like Francis Bacon and Carl Schmitt, Thiel laid out a theory that crystallizes his entire Type 6 worldview: The Antichrist will rise to power not through overt evil, but by exploiting technological fears to impose global control.
According to leaked notes from attendees, Thiel argued that the Antichrist would seize power "by talking constantly of Armageddon (or in secular terms, of existential risk)." This figure would offer "peace and safety" while using fears about AI dangers, nuclear war, and climate change to justify unprecedented surveillance and control measures.
One attendee summarized Thiel's view as two apocalyptic scenarios: "We'll either have the one government that destroys technology and takes over, or you have the AI that destroys everything."
In the lectures, Thiel specifically suggested that climate activist Greta Thunberg could embody aspects of this Antichrist figure—not because of who she is, but because of what she represents: someone advocating for global coordination to prevent catastrophe, potentially at the cost of technological progress and individual freedom.
The irony wasn't lost on protesters outside the venue, some of whom suggested Thiel himself might be the Antichrist. After all, who talks more about apocalyptic scenarios than Peter Thiel? Who builds more surveillance technology? Who seeks more control through their investments and political influence?
But this is where understanding the Type 6 psychology becomes essential. Thiel isn't seeking control—he's seeking to prevent a specific type of control. He's not afraid of technology—he's afraid of technology being strangled by fear-mongering about technology.
The nightmare scenario for a Type 6 like Thiel isn't chaos. It's false safety.
It's the trusted authority figure who promises protection while tightening the chains. It's the institutions that say they're keeping you safe while restricting your freedom. It's the childhood wound writ large: reaching for help only to find betrayal.
When Douthat asked whether Thiel's own work might be enabling the Antichrist, that long pause before answering spoke volumes. "There are all these different scenarios. I obviously don't think that's what I'm doing."
That "obviously" contains less certainty than it pretends. The Type 6 mind constantly questions even its own actions, always scanning for the possibility that the solution might become the problem.
Kayfabe in Politics: The Skeptic's View
One of Thiel's most insightful political concepts is his application of "kayfabe" to understand modern discourse. Borrowed from professional wrestling, where performances are presented as authentic despite being staged, kayfabe in politics refers to the theatrical aspects of public debate that mask underlying realities.
Eric Weinstein, a friend of Thiel's, elaborates: "Kayfabe is the reality that we're all participating in, but we're pretending we're not. It's the idea that there's a public story and a private story."
This concept perfectly illustrates the Type 6's skepticism about surface narratives. While others might take political discourse at face value, the Type 6 constantly looks for the hidden script—the actual power dynamics beneath the performance.
Paradoxically, while Thiel champions free speech and funded litigation against universities with speech codes, he also bankrolled Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker Media, which ultimately bankrupted the company. This apparent contradiction makes sense when viewed through his Type 6 lens: Gawker had previously outed Thiel as gay against his wishes, violating what he saw as the boundary between public discourse and personal privacy.
This episode highlights another crucial aspect of Thiel's personality: his loyalty to those within his circle. Type 6 individuals are often community builders, valuing safety and security not just for themselves but for their trusted allies. His years-long legal campaign against Gawker demonstrates the lengths a Type 6 will go to protect their boundaries and defend their community against perceived threats.
The Loyalist's Complex Web of Relationships
Peter Thiel's relationships offer fascinating insights into his personality. His professional breakup with Elon Musk during PayPal's early days—where Musk was removed as CEO while on vacation following disagreements over replacing PayPal's Unix-based infrastructure with Microsoft solutions—shows the decisive side of Thiel's business persona.
Yet paradoxically, Thiel maintains relationships with individuals across the ideological spectrum. He remains friends with Reid Hoffman (co-founder of LinkedIn and prominent Democrat) despite their political differences. His intellectual circle includes diverse thinkers like Eric Weinstein and others who challenge conventional wisdom from various angles.
This ability to maintain relationships across divides reflects the Type 6's nuanced understanding of human complexity. Rather than sorting people into simplistic categories of ally or enemy, the Type 6 recognizes that relationships can be multifaceted, containing both agreement and disagreement.
The "PayPal Mafia"—the group of former PayPal employees and founders who went on to extraordinary success in tech—represents another dimension of Thiel's relationship network. This group, including Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, and others, has maintained connections despite occasional conflicts, demonstrating the lasting bonds formed under Thiel's early leadership.
In the 2025 Trump administration, Thiel's network became even more visible. His protégés and allies occupy key positions throughout government, from JD Vance in the Senate to various appointees in agencies overseeing technology and defense. Bloomberg ran a feature mapping "Peter Thiel's Allies in Trump's Government," noting the extensive web of influence.
Yet Thiel himself remains in the background—a characteristic Type 6 move. Why expose yourself as a target when you can influence through trusted proxies?
AI: Too Much and Not Enough
In his June 2025 interview, Thiel articulated a view on artificial intelligence that perfectly captures his Type 6 psychology: we're both overestimating and underestimating it simultaneously.
"It's more than a nothing burger, and it's less than the total transformation of our society," he told Douthat. AI will deliver "roughly a percentage point of annual GDP growth for a decade"—significant but not revolutionary. Certainly not enough to overcome the broader stagnation thesis.
But here's where Thiel's fear shows through: AI represents the only current technological frontier. We're not making breakthrough progress in fusion, in space travel, in life extension, in the physical world. We're putting all our eggs in one basket—the digital basket.
For a Type 6, this concentration of hope is itself a threat. What if AI doesn't deliver? What if it's another "140 characters" instead of flying cars? Worse, what if AI becomes a tool for the exact kind of conformist, unimaginative control Thiel fears?
When asked if we should have more diverse technological ambitions, Thiel's answer was emphatic: We need "multidimensional progress" across various domains. Don't put everything on AI. Don't bet humanity's future on a single pathway.
This is the Type 6's risk management in action: diversify, hedge, prepare for multiple scenarios.
And when Douthat asked about Elon Musk's Mars ambitions—whether Musk actually wants to go to Mars—Thiel's response was revealing. He expressed skepticism that even Musk truly has the commitment to leave Earth permanently. The implication: even our most ambitious technological visionaries aren't ambitious enough, aren't taking the stagnation threat seriously enough.
We're not dreaming big enough. And that terrifies him.
The Loyalist's Legacy: Building a More Secure Future
Peter Thiel's career embodies the Type 6's drive to create security through innovation and contrarian thinking. From co-founding PayPal to his current role as a venture capitalist, political influencer, and philosophical provocateur, his actions consistently reflect a deep-seated need to build systems more reliable than existing institutions—while simultaneously preparing for those systems to fail.
His Thiel Fellowship, which pays young entrepreneurs $100,000 to skip or drop out of college and pursue their innovations, challenges conventional educational wisdom while offering financial security to young innovators. His investments in seasteading—floating autonomous cities—and space exploration reveal his interest in creating entirely new environments where humanity might flourish beyond current constraints.
"The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create," Thiel has said. This optimism, despite his awareness of potential catastrophic risks, captures the paradoxical nature of the Type 6 personality—simultaneously alert to danger yet hopeful about human potential.
But make no mistake about what drives this optimism: it's not boundless confidence in human goodness or inevitable progress. It's the opposite. It's the bone-deep knowledge that without those uncharted frontiers, without transformative innovation, we're doomed.
The Type 6 finds hope not in comfort but in movement. Not in safety but in the pursuit of safety through transformation.
Fear as Motivation: The Final Word
So when critics call Peter Thiel power-hungry, they fundamentally misunderstand the man. Look at his actions through the Type 6 lens:
- He left law → Not for power, but because he saw the trap of institutional conformity
- He left Silicon Valley → Not for power, but to escape groupthink
- He supported Trump → Not for power, but because he feared institutional stagnation
- He warns of the Antichrist → Not for power, but because he sees the specific mechanism of how freedom could be lost
- He builds Palantir → Not for power, but because he fears the alternative: someone else controlling that technology
- He invests in life extension → Not for power, but because he fears mortality
- He buys New Zealand property → Not for power, but because he fears societal collapse
Every major decision, every controversial stance, every seemingly contradictory position—they all stem from the same source.
Fear of a specific future. Fear of catastrophe. Fear of stagnation leading to collapse. Fear of false safety enabling totalitarian control.
As he told Ross Douthat, reaffirming his stagnation thesis fourteen years after first proposing it: "Yes. I still broadly believe in the stagnation thesis." The velocity has slowed. The world isn't taking the threats seriously enough. We're not ambitious enough. We're not moving fast enough.
And somewhere in that slowing velocity, in that complacency, in that false sense of security, lurks the exact catastrophe he's been warning about all along.
Through the lens of the Enneagram, we can understand Thiel not as a bundle of contradictions, but as a coherent personality driven by the fundamental Type 6 motivation: the quest for security in an uncertain world. His skepticism of conventional wisdom, his loyalty to core principles, his visionary investments, and yes, even his warnings about the Antichrist—all serve this deeper purpose.
As we reflect on Peter Thiel's journey, we're invited to consider our own inner worlds. What drives our decisions? What fears shape our paths? And how might understanding our personality type help us navigate life with greater self-awareness and purpose?
Whether you're a Type 6 like Peter Thiel or any other Enneagram type, exploring this system can lead to profound insights about yourself and others. The Enneagram doesn't just explain behavior—it illuminates the underlying motivations that make us who we are.
And for Thiel, that motivation has never been power.
It's always been fear.
Fear can be rational. Fear can be productive. Fear can drive innovation and prevent catastrophe.
The question Thiel keeps asking—the question that haunts every Type 6—is whether his fear is prescient or self-fulfilling.
Disclaimer This analysis of Peter Thiel's Enneagram type is speculative, based on publicly available information, and may not reflect Peter's actual personality type.
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