If one believes in luck, fate, karma, or even the Universal Law of Attraction, the story of money manager extraordinaire, Peter Thiel, will only reinforce one’s beliefs. Of equal importance, the traits of courage, belief in one’s self, commitment to one’s opinion, and gut feeling, also play a major role in the story. How else can one explain an almost chance meeting at Hobee’s Coffee Shop, near Stanford University, one early morning in 1998 that eventually resulted, only 3 years later, in a $1.5 Billion payoff?
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