[staunch]

Or what about the computer scientist Lawrence Page? He managed to extract some value from his contributions. This argument of Thiel's is only correct if you regard any scientist who makes money as a non-scientist.

[graycat]

Thiel did seem to mention that scientists sometimes regard other scientists who are also interested in making money as not so good or proper scientists or some such!

But your example is correct.

I get the impression that somehow Thiel is a bit down on the money making potential of research.