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Founders Fund - Footnote 20

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The source does not mention a 2017 manifesto titled "What Happened to the Future?". The source does not explicitly state that Founders Fund's philosophy is captured in a manifesto criticizing the venture capital industry's shift from "transformational technologies" to "cynical, incrementalist investments."

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partial85%Haiku 4.5 · 4/3/2026

Found: Drawing on philosopher René Girard's theories of mimetic desire, Peter Thiel led the firm to pivot away from social media investments after Facebook's success, instead focusing on hard technology that…

Note: The source does not mention a 2017 manifesto titled "What Happened to the Future?". The source does not explicitly state that Founders Fund's philosophy is captured in a manifesto criticizing the venture capital industry's shift from "transformational technologies" to "cynical, incrementalist investments."

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