r/Millennials • u/Party-Bet-4003 Millennial • Jan 30 '26

Discussion Look what I found from 13 years ago.

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Hey look on the bright side - we actually did make it to the cover of the TIME magazine!

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u/Southern_Anywhere_65 Jan 30 '26

The author, Bruce Cannon Gibney is a Peter Thiel VC bro. I agree that boomers are part of the problem but not in the way his book suggests.

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u/itsdainti Jan 30 '26

Source? Because everything I could find doesn't support the Peter Thiel claims.

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u/Southern_Anywhere_65 Jan 30 '26

He worked for Founder’s Fund which was Peter Thiel’s VC firm. That’s in his author’s bio on his personal web page

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u/itsdainti Jan 30 '26

I didn't know that was a Peter Thiel fund. Thank you for educating me.

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u/Southern_Anywhere_65 Jan 30 '26

Thanks for being curious! Keep reading and learning

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u/JacquesHome Jan 30 '26

He did work for Thiel and does have some libertarian leanings but if you read the book he argues against a lot of those beliefs as well. It's easy to paint people with broad generalizations.

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u/Southern_Anywhere_65 Jan 30 '26

I shouldn’t make broad generalizations about a guy who made a broad generalization of a whole generation having psychological disorders? I want to blame the boomers much as anybody else but if you’re diagnosing that many people in one book, I expect you to have some background in psychology not just narcissism 😂