Peter Thiel gets a lot of shit on HN (my comments mentioning him usually get downvoted) I think because of his politics, but there are few people who have more non-consensus views that end up being correct. It's easy to be non-consensus and wrong most of the time, or conformist and correct most of the time, but hard to be non-consensus and often correct, which is what makes Thiel worth listening to in my opinion.