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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]
16 Apr 2022, 10:13 am by Tom Smith
So Elon can join up with Peter Theil, but that will count toward his 15 percent pill triggering amount, or that's my shot from the hip anyway. [read post]
9 Apr 2022, 9:31 am by Tom Smith
When they chose not to allocate to Bitcoin, that is a deeply political choice, and we need to be pushing back against them” Thiel said before explaining that the true enemy that is ESG - which we have repeatedly mocked over the years (here, here and here and here) for being the most hypocritical financial construct of the past generation - "is just a hate factory. [read post]
8 Apr 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The coalition, called the Rockbridge Network, includes some of Trump’s biggest donors, such as Peter Thiel and Rebekah Mercer, and has laid out an ambitious goal – to reshape the American right by spending more than $30 million on conservative media, legal, policy, and voter registration projects, among other initiatives. [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 2:00 am by Katharine Van Tassel
J. 179 (2021): Peter Thiel reportedly converted a 1999 Roth IRA investment of $1,700 in PayPal “founder’s shares,” into assets that appeared to be worth $7 billion on June 30,... [read post]
24 Oct 2021, 10:32 am by Tom Smith
LONDON — Tech billionaire Peter Thiel believes that people should be more worried about “surveillance AI” rather than artificial general intelligences, which are hypothetical AI systems with superhuman abilities.The venture capitalist, who co-founded big data firm Palantir, said at an event in Miami on Wednesday that on the path to AGI, you get surveillance AI, which he described as a “communist totalitarian technology. [read post]
22 Oct 2021, 1:20 pm by Tom Smith
Peter Thiel could endow a law school of his own -- Stanford is as lost as anywhere and his billions won't buy it back. [read post]
10 Oct 2021, 1:17 pm by Gerry W. Beyer
Provided below is the abstract to the Article: Peter Thiel reportedly converted a 1999 Roth IRA investment of $1,700 in PayPal... [read post]
28 Sep 2021, 12:05 am by Paul Caron
Bloomberg Businessweek, Peter Thiel Gamed Silicon Valley, Donald Trump, and Democracy to Make Billions, Tax-Free: In an exclusive excerpt from The Contrarian, a new biography, the disruption-preaching power broker is revealed as just another rich guy desperate to keep his fortune from the IRS. [read post]
26 Sep 2021, 1:30 pm by Steve Bainbridge
The folks who write and edit The Economist have a rather odd mix of attitudes towards the military. [read post]
25 Aug 2021, 5:47 pm by Gerry W. Beyer
Here is the abstract of this article: Peter Thiel reportedly... [read post]
3 Aug 2021, 12:00 pm by Gerry W. Beyer
Billionaire Peter Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal, "has used a retirement account designed to help ordinary Americans save for their golden years to amass a $5 [billion] tax-free nest egg. . . [read post]
11 Jul 2021, 7:06 am
I know it's tough for you because the Yale Club's guest rooms are closed until Labor Day, but you can ask your billionaire funder, Peter Thiel, if you can stay at his Park Avenue apartment. [read post]
28 Jun 2021, 11:33 am by Paul Caron
Following up on my previous posts (links below): Pro Publica, Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank: Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and... [read post]
27 May 2021, 9:15 am by Kristian Soltes
The fintech behemoth, founded by the fabled so-called “PayPal Mafia” that included the tech tycoon Elon Musk and investor Peter Thiel in 1999, is riding high on a mounting wave of digital payments after Covid-19 caused online shopping and contactless payments to surge. [read post]
14 May 2021, 7:51 am by Kristian Soltes
The fintech behemoth, founded by the fabled so-called “PayPal Mafia” that included the tech tycoon Elon Musk and investor Peter Thiel in 1999, is riding high on a mounting wave of digital payments after Covid-19 caused online shopping and contactless payments to surge. [read post]
12 May 2021, 1:43 pm by Lucas Harty
I had a couple of friends like Peter Thiel who also went to law school but did not practice law at all. [read post]
26 Apr 2021, 11:21 am by Tom Smith
Libertarian tech titan Peter Thiel is spending $10 million to boost one of his closest allies in next year’s Arizona Senate race, a contest crucial to the fight for the majority. [read post]
23 Apr 2021, 7:25 am by Abby Lemert, Eleanor Runde
  The recent statements by Chinese officials and journalists are likely to fuel accounts in the West (most recently, those of Peter Navarro, a senior trade adviser to former President Trump, and PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel) that suggest concern over China’s role in cryptocurrencies. [read post]