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rendition switcher   Question: Who is Eduardo Saverin?  Peter
Thiel: Eduardo was one of the early people at Facebook. He
worked with Zuckerburg in getting the site started, and was
responsible for trying to get advertising revenues for the
company in 2004, and also helped provide some of the very early
seed capital in getting the business started.  Question: What
kind of capitalism is it that cuts Eduardo Saverin out of
Facebook?  Peter Thiel: I think the portrayal of the film is
probably slightly too favorable to Eduardo and slightly too
unfavorable toward the people who actually put in the incredibly
hard work of building Facebook over many, many years. It is sort
of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it’s always this
zero-sum game where you have winners and losers. That is
certainly the way a lot of Hollywood work