CTOvision

AUGUST 2, 2021

is following the business ideals of Palantir’s co-founder, Peter Thiel in its pursuit for growth on Seeking Alpha : Palantir (PLTR) is a software, data analytics company that’s carved out a niche serving the U.S. Read Jared Simons analyze how Palantir Technologies, Inc. government and its allies.

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Gizmodo

MAY 24, 2021

The Hillbilly Elegy guy and right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel are teaming up to invest big money in a conservative alternative to YouTube called Rumble, the Wall Street Journal reported last week. Why would these ghouls want a piece of one of the web’s junkiest services? Read more.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2020

It’s also a blow to the political ambitions of billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, who had enthusiastically supported Kobach, offering public support and significant PAC funding to the candidate’s primary bid.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Palantir Technologies, the software security and analytics provider co-founded by well-known tech investor Peter Thiel, has signed a new two-year contract with the U.K. National Health Service worth an estimated […].

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The Verge

APRIL 26, 2021

Venture capitalist Peter Thiel has put $10 million into a newly formed PAC backing a business partner’s Senate bid, as first reported by Politico. Masters came to prominence as the co-author of Thiel’s popular book, Zero to One, and was hired shortly afterward as an executive at Thiel Capital.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Venture capitalist Peter Thiel visits Fox News Channel Studios on August 9, 2019, in New York City. Thiel played a key role at the company as an early investor and adviser to Mark Zuckerberg. Early Facebook investor Peter Thiel plans to resign from its parent company Meta’s board, the company announced on Monday.

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Vox

MARCH 7, 2023

Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, gestures as he speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 conference at Miami Beach Convention Center on April 7, 2022, in Miami, Florida. Marco Bello/Getty Images What Peter Thiel gets wrong about existential risk. He’s an Ayn Rand libertarian. million.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

According to Thiel's book, called "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power," the billionaire venture capitalist joined Zuckerberg, President Trump, Trump advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner, and their spouses at the White House in 2019.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Two of the great tech investor/creators, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman, recently sat down for a discussion moderated by […]. The tech world is great for those that love to learn. Things are changing fast so learning is critical. One of the great ways to learn is to track the words of the creators of tech.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Peter Thiel said it this way: "Crypto is decentralizing, AI is centralizing. News over the past week underscored the very interesting dynamics of cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence. One of the great tech champions from Silicon Valley recently summed this dynamic up very well.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 9, 2023

Spearheaded by Musk and buoyed by the support of Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Neuralink is poised to redefine the very fabric of human-machine interaction. 280 million injection fuels futuristic integration ( Image credit ) Who is Peter Thiel? We’re happy to announce our $280M Series D round led by @foundersfund.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Getty Images Sure, Elon Musk’s into ketamine and Peter Thiel has his doping Olympics, but drugs and tech are nothing new. Peter Thiel has funded a psychedelic therapy startup and is also bankrolling a doping-friendly sports competition. Musk and Thiel are actually outliers. Musk, Thiel, et al.

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The Verge

JULY 12, 2021

Blake Masters, a close ally to billionaire Peter Thiel and current Thiel Capital executive, launched a bid for the Arizona Senate Monday. A 34-year-old Tucson resident, Masters rose to prominence by co-authoring Zero to One alongside Thiel in 2014 and serving as an executive in a number of Thiel’s companies.

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CTOvision

JULY 12, 2016

He explains why he opposed both Peter Thiel's campaign against Gawker Media and Donald Trump's attempts to "freeze or chill" press scrutiny. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos talks with The Verge's Walt Mossberg about the "gigantic" potential of artificial intelligence to change everything from shopping to self-driving cars.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 2, 2024

While Peter Thiel is waiting for permission for his New Zealand bunker, Elon Musk’s plans remain uncertain, possibly involving Mars if given the chance. Metro discloses that Peter Thiel, the PayPal magnate, is working on his own bunker-style refuge in New Zealand, possibly sharing it with Sam Altman from OpenAI.

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TechSpot

JULY 23, 2020

Peter Thiel, who has named at least five of his companies in reference to The Lord of the Rings, owns a 193-hectare estate on the shores of Lake Wanaka and. New Zealand has long been a favorite backup plan for billionaires who buy land as a form of "apocalypse insurance."

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The Verge

AUGUST 21, 2020

Palantir CEO Peter Thiel has close ties to President Trump. Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel supported President Trump’s election in 2016, and he has reportedly used his status as a member of Facebook’s board of directors to push policies that help the president, especially when it comes to oversight of political ads on the platform.

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The Verge

JANUARY 19, 2021

According to a statement from the White House, Levandowski’s pardon was supported by figures from the tech industry including controversial billionaire investor Peter Thiel, fellow Founders Fund partner Trae Stephens, Thiel Capital COO Blake Masters, Hollywood agent and Palantir advisor Michael Ovitz, and Oculus and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 13, 2020

Palantir—a data crunching firm best known for its ties to Peter Thiel , the Pentagon , and police forces across the country—is apparently looking to finally go public, as people “familiar with the matter” told Bloomberg yesterday. Earlier today, the plans were confirmed by finance execs at Akita Michinoku Capital, a… Read more.

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TechSpot

JUNE 19, 2020

Young Elon Musk, Max Levchin and Peter Thiel.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel joined the board of Vancouver, B.C.-based Peter has been a valued AbCellera investor and brings deep experience in scaling global technology companies,” said AbCellera CEO Carl Hansen. based AbCellera. The biotech startup has developed an antibody discovery platform. and Canada.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Just last week, BlackSky announced that Palantir Technologies, which was co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, would make an equity investment in the combined company. BlackSky says it currently has more than 200 employees. Most of those are based in Herndon, Va., but 53 are working in Seattle.

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Vox

MAY 2, 2023

The empty chair was reserved for investor Peter Thiel, who financed a lawsuit that bankrupted Denton’s Gawker Media. | Peter Kafka Jonah, I’m talking to you in late April, a couple of days after you shuttered BuzzFeed News. Peter Kafka Remind people who weren’t in that world what Jezebel was.

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Galido

APRIL 17, 2019

Zero to One by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters. If you enjoy learning from the top dogs in business, this book is actually penned by a PayPal co-founder who was also an early Facebook investor, Peter Thiel, with the help of COO Blake Masters.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

patent relating to methods of treating drug-resistant depression “with a psilocybin formulation,” is also backed by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, who has invested in other companies focused on psychedelics. The company, which holds a U.S. The oversubscribed round of funding for CaaMTech was led by Noetic Fund.

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Network World

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Invitations to the meeting were signed by Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, chief of staff Reince Priebus, and billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel , a Silicon Valley figure who came out openly early on in favor of Trump.

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The Verge

APRIL 7, 2022

The coalition, known as The Rockbridge Network, features prominent conservative billionaires like Peter Thiel and Rebekah Mercer. The network aims to “disrupt but advance the Republican agenda” with its new policy and media programs.

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ComputerWorld IT Management

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nearly the entire tech industry, with the exception of PayPal founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel, publicly lined up against Donald Trump and for Hillary Clinton in the recent presidential election. But words are one thing and actions another.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Among the participating investors are Tiger Global Management, Mithril Capital (co-founded by Peter Thiel and Ajay Royan), Hedosophia and Senator Investment Group. Osprey holds about $318 million in trust, and another $180 million for the deal will come from an arrangement for private investment in public equity, or PIPE.

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The Verge

APRIL 26, 2021

Luminar was founded by a then 17-year-old Russell in 2012 and counts among its backers Peter Thiel and Volvo, which will begin using Luminar technology to power autonomous driving in its cars beginning in 2022. Even some of the best pilots have a hard time being able to see these kinds of things.”.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images As China’s balloon deflates, a new space race is rising. The fund is backed by Schmidt and tech tycoon Peter Thiel, and in its own marketing compares its cutting-edge investments to the urgency of the US-Soviet space race.

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Vox

JANUARY 23, 2023

OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a research laboratory, with backing from Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Reid Hoffman. Microsoft OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in 2019 after Microsoft’s initial $1 billion investment in OpenAI.

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

A 100x return may seem ridiculous but consider that venture capitalist Peter Thiel invested $500,000 in Facebook and earned over $1 billion when the company went public, an over 2,000x return. If OpenAI is even a 10th that successful, the excess profits returning to the nonprofit would be huge.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And then there’s Sam Bankman-Fried, the failed crypto investor who’s now in jail … Harlan Crow, the Dallas billionaire who became enmeshed in a controversy involving Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas … and Peter Thiel, who aims to create his own libertarian enclave somewhere in the Mediterranean.

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Vox

DECEMBER 7, 2022

GPT was built by training its AI with an extraordinarily large amount of data, much of which comes from the vast supply of data on the internet, along with billions of dollars, including initial funding from several prominent tech billionaires, including Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel.

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Fountainhead

MAY 13, 2013

With thanks to Mark Thiele (EVP Data Center Technologies) and Jason Mendenhal (EVP Cloud), I was able to spend some quality time in-and-around the facility (even inside one of the AC units) and got an education that mega data centers are much more than a structure to house servers. Peter Cochrane. For More Information. Ken Oestreich.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 15, 2020

“Zero to One” by Peter Thiel. Beethoven, composer Dave Grusin, jazz pianist Bill Evans’ “The Complete Riverside Recordings,” ’80s rock. Daily reads? Favorite sites and newsletters? Zerohedge , Yahoo Finance, SDxCentral. Book on your nightstand (or e-reader)? Night owl or early riser?

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