Tim Miller

At that point, Thiel was trying to get Palantir off the ground, but he has never had any day-to-day involvement with the company, certainly not since the earliest days anyway.

However, he is the chairman of the board, and he and Karp are very close.

They're close friends.

Friends?

It's an interesting relationship.

It's hard for me to imagine Peter Thiel actually having a friend in the way that I describe friends.

Are they colleagues or friends?

I think they are friends.

I know they get together for dinner periodically.

Sure.

I would not be in a position, even after all this time working on the book, on being able to comment on just how close that friendship is and whether it's the kind of friendship that you and I think of as friendship.

That I don't know.

Well, they're both a little neurodivergent.

And I carp is like embracing that term for himself.

So I mean, they're the way that they think about friendships, right?

Different than the way I do.

I think it's a little different than you and I going out for beers with friends.

It's not the same thing, but they do consider themselves close friends.

What was interesting was they were political opposites.

I mean, part of the reason they bonded at Stanford Law, they bonded over their shared dislike of law school.