Peter Thiel says Elon Musk is a 'negative role model' because he's too hard to emulate

Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel argued at an event Tuesday that Elon Musk is the exception to the rule that true innovation has stalled.

Tuesday. Thiel was debating Robert Metcalfe, a professor innovation and entrepreneurship at University of Texas at Austin, on the question, "has true innovation stalled?""Elon is the counterexample" to the argument that true innovation has stalled, Thiel said, comparing him to former"It's a very weird thing where that's the go-to story is we have one person who helped develop electric cars and reusable rockets," Thiel said.

Thiel said it may be easier to suggest that a young person "start a computer internet company from your college dorm room," which could be an allusion to

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