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22 Jun 2018, 1:19 am by INFORRM
If you want to create and capture lasting value, look to build a monopoly’– Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and Palantir In the 1960s, IBM dominated the mainframe market. [read post]
17 Jun 2018, 2:30 pm by David Lat
[Volokh Conspiracy / Reason] * Ethics expert Steven Lubet reviews Ryan Holiday's book (affiliate link) about the Hulk Hogan/Gawker case -- and argues that Peter Thiel's financing of the litigation might have violated legal ethics. [read post]
14 Jun 2018, 3:49 pm by Howard Wasserman
Steve Lubet reviewed the new book by Ryan Holiday, Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue. [read post]
14 Jun 2018, 6:48 am by Steve Lubet
"  The piece is a long-form review of Ryan Holiday's new book about the case, Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue. [read post]
1 Jun 2018, 10:07 am by Harold O'Grady
Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue tells the story of an astonishing modern media conspiracy. [read post]
6 May 2018, 8:54 pm by Bona Law PC
We wrote about avoiding competition and Peter Thiel’s excellent book here. [read post]
6 May 2018, 8:54 pm by Bona Law PC
We wrote about avoiding competition and Peter Thiel’s excellent book here. [read post]
19 Apr 2018, 11:47 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Peter Thiel’s data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. [read post]
5 Apr 2018, 3:54 pm by Kevin LaCroix
This particular point of view receiving a great deal of attention in connection with Hulk Hogan’s privacy litigation against Internet scandal site Gawker, that was funded by Silicon Valley mogul Peter Thiel. [read post]
26 Mar 2018, 3:05 am by Walter Olson
Peter Thiel match-up [Jacob Gershman, WSJ] “Prosecutors Investigate Firms That Offer Plaintiffs Early Cash” [Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, New York Times] Seventh Circuit: parents, not Starbucks, bore duty of protecting 3-year-old from harm resulting from playing on crowd-control stanchions [Roh v. [read post]
19 Feb 2018, 10:05 am by Tom Smith
Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel has said he plans to leave Silicon Valley in part because of its perceived cultural uniformity. [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 1:06 pm by Tom Smith
Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is relocating his home and personal investment firms to Los Angeles from San Francisco and scaling back his involvement in the tech industry, people familiar with his thinking said, marking a rupture between Silicon Valley and its most prominent conservative. [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 6:49 am by Cyrus Farivar
(credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Peter Thiel, the well-known investor who cofounded data-analysis firm Palantir Technologies and who bankrolled the lawsuit that ultimately drove Gawker out of business, has decided that he has had enough of Silicon Valley. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 4:00 am by Michael Erdle
Many people were troubled to learn that billionaire Peter Thiel had secretly funded the lawsuit, apparently in retaliation for disclosures about his personal life, which were not actionable. [read post]
7 Jan 2018, 7:29 pm by John Floyd
This type of militarized policing has one, and only one, objective: to control and wage war, if necessary, on the American underclass to “protect and serve” the rich and powerful ruling class, like the Koch Brothers, the Mercer Family, Peter Thiel, and all of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golfing buddies. [read post]
3 Jan 2018, 5:10 am by Eugene Volokh
The creators of the HBO show Silicon Valley similarly based a quirky character on Silicon Valley mogul Peter Thiel, co-founder of Paypal. [read post]
31 Dec 2017, 7:26 am by Dave Wieneke
is fueled by the tech-inspired idealism of a Peter Thiel with the certainty of Ayn Rand’s Darwinistic simplicity. [read post]
15 Dec 2017, 10:58 am by Jordan Brunner
Oracle Corporation executive Safra Catz and tech magnate Peter Thiel have both reportedly turned down jobs leading the advisory board in part over concerns about McMaster, although others dispute that account. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 12:33 pm by Joe Patrice
But are his lawyers more worried about the millions in potential claims? [read post]