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Thiel believes that too many people in business and philanthropy are focused on extensive growth and there is too little focus on intensive growth. Thiel thus concentrates most of his philanthropic efforts on efforts that he considers likely to lead to intensive growth, i.e., radical innovation.
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Breakout Labs announced its first batch of grantees on April 17, 2012, its second batch of grantees on August 15, 2012, and its third batch of grantees in April 2013. In total, Breakout Labs made 50 investments before winding down the program in 2021:
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The announcement of Breakout Labs (October 2011), as well as the announcements of its first batch of grantees (April 2012), received considerable media attention. The first and second batches of grantees were covered by
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growth, which involves spreading existing technology to more people and making it faster, cheaper, and better.
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Breakout Labs is part of these efforts. Many of these themes are also covered in his similarly titled book
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growth, which involves the creation of radical new technology. He likens this to "going from zero to one".
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is an example of extensive growth. Thiel likens extensive growth to "going from 1 to N".
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Peter Thiel's closing remarks at the Breakthrough Philanthropy conference
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Philanthropic organizations based in the United States
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Breakout Labs
Peter Thiel
San Francisco
CA
Parent
Thiel Foundation
breakoutlabs.org
Thiel Foundation
Peter Thiel
angel investors
venture capitalists
Strateos
Immusoft
Inspirotec
Longevity Biotech
Entopsis
Modern Meadow
Siva Therapeutics
Yahoo
Cytovale
G-Tech Medical
Quince
Epibone
Ion DX
C2Sense
Maxterial
Cytegen
Setex
Seatrec
Zymochem

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