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25 Feb 2024, 9:54 am by Tom Smith
Peter Thiel is trying harder than ever to get young people to skip college.Since 2010, Thiel, an early Facebook investor and a founder of PayPal Holdings, has offered to pay students $100,000 to drop out of school to start companies or nonprofits. [read post]
Clearview AI is backed by Peter Thiel who founded Palantir, which has its own issues regarding police and government surveillance. [read post]
15 May 2023, 11:43 am by Tom Smith
Andreessen is one of the more prominent names in a new class of tech wealth that includes figures like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel whose political vision and methods conflict both with dot-com tech titans like Bill Gates and Pierre Omidyar, as well as with those of old world industry and media, like Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner. [read post]
21 Mar 2023, 9:01 pm by Leslie C. Griffin
Included are William Barr, William Simon, Alexander Haig, Clare Boothe Luce, Peter Grace, Michael Novak, Bruce Ritter, Peter Thiel, Ross Douthat, and George Weigel. [read post]
18 Mar 2023, 9:49 am by Tom Smith
via www.wsj.com Not surprising to see Peter Thiel leading the way on this. [read post]
13 Mar 2023, 7:08 am by Tom Smith
Venture capitalists, including Peter Thiel, suggested that companies in their portfolios should withdraw their money and put it somewhere safer. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:01 am by Florence G'SELL
A lot has happened since Elon Musk made a sensational entrance in Twitter headquarters by carrying a sink. [read post]
30 Nov 2022, 11:47 am by Tom Smith
Progress in science and technology isn’t innate to human beings, Thiel believes. [read post]
25 Nov 2022, 11:21 am
"Whatever the truth of the matter, whatever right-leaning tendencies he may have had before a couple years ago appear to have been latent or unformed. [read post]
15 Sep 2022, 7:09 am by Dan Farber
Masters, the challenger is a Stanford JD and acolyte of billionaire Peter Thiel. [read post]
6 Sep 2022, 11:00 am
" From "Peter Thiel’s Investment Firm Is Backing a Menstrual Cycle-Focused ‘Femtech’ Company/Evie Magazine is COVID-skeptical, transphobic, and obsessed with traditional womanhood. [read post]
5 Aug 2022, 3:31 am by Chris Seaton
Settling into his easy chair, Mud Lick’s top cop prepared to open his copy of Peter Thiel’s “Zero to One” and finally let the tension in his shoulders and neck release. [read post]
22 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Bipartisan Group Seeks to Limit Who Federal Agencies Can Contract With Government Executive – Eric Katz | Published: 7/14/2022 A bipartisan group of senators is looking to set new limitations on the entities with which federal agencies can contract, introducing legislation to ban the government from doing business with companies that work with certain other nations. [read post]
15 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
‘Operation Higher Court’: Inside the religious right’s efforts to wine and dine Supreme Court justices Yahoo News – Peter Canellos and Josh Gerstein (Politico) | Published: 7/8/2022 Rob Schenck, an evangelical minister who once headed the group Faith and Action, said he arranged for couples to fly to Washington to visit with and entertain Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and the late Antonin Scalia. [read post]
21 Jun 2022, 4:24 am by Emma Snell
Peter Thiel left Facebook last month, in what his inner circle have said reflects a growing rift between Thiel and the company, as conservatives grow uncomfortable with the tech industry’s willingness to police online speech. [read post]
28 May 2022, 1:00 am by Rechtsanwalt Martin Steiger
Ausgewählte lesenswerte Weblinks über relevante Themen im digitalen Raum  – vor einiger Zeit exklusiv im Newsletter, heute für andere Interessierte auf unserer Website … 💡 Tech-Giganten: «Für den Investor und PayPal-Gründer Peter Thiel ist Wettbewerb etwas für Verlierer. [read post]
4 May 2022, 1:42 pm by Richard Pildes
Vance’s campaign itself was not raising large amounts of money, but the massive contributions from Peter Thiel and others were sent… Continue reading [read post]
29 Apr 2022, 3:48 am by Chris Seaton
“We replaced your order of “Antiracist Baby” with “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel,” Sheriff Roy said with a smirk. [read post]
24 Apr 2022, 9:59 am by Tom Smith
Peter Thiel was born in Germany, you know, and is interesting enough, but is working hard on surveillance tech of his own at Palantir. [read post]