Tech-funded Enhanced Games will allow athletes to openly use performance-enhancing drugs
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Peter Thiel
American entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
Peter Andreas Thiel is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund. He was ranked No. 4 on the Forbes Midas List of 2014, with a net worth of $2.2 billion, and No. 328 on the Forbes 400 in 2018, with a net worth of $2.5 billion.
Through the Thiel Foundation, Thiel governs the grant-making bodies Breakout Labs and Thiel Fellowship, and funds nonprofit research into artificial intelligence, life extension and seasteading. A co-founder of The Stanford Review, he is a conservative libertarian who is critical of high government spending, high debt levels, and foreign wars. He has donated to numerous political figures. In 2016, Thiel revealed that he had funded Hulk Hogan in the Bollea v. Gawker lawsuit, which ultimately led to the bankruptcy of Gawker.
Visit website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
See also: 
Thiel Foundation
- Private foundation created and funded by billionaire Peter Thiel that supports science and technology
Details last updated 30-Jan-2020
Peter Thiel News
UK biotech races US giants for longevity breakthrough
The Guardian - 05-Nov-2023British researchers and startups vie to outpace tech billionaires in the fight against ageing
Blackrock Neurotech receives $10m funding from Peter Thiel
CNBC - 19-May-2021New competitor for Neuralink's brain implant, streamlining solution for neurological disorders
Comprehensive history and explanation of senescent cells
The Scientist - 01-Mar-2020Including the latest on clinical trials of first-generation senolytics
How the rich plan to survive the apocalypse
Guardian - 24-Jul-2018Hoarding, and different forms of forced labor are among the future plans of the most powerful
Silicon Valley and rich people invest to slow down ageing and live longer
This Is Money - 17-Mar-2018All the money in the world to fight ageing and death
Prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand
Guardian - 15-Feb-2018If you’re interested in the end of the world, you’re interested in New Zealand. What they’re aft...
The Men Who Want to Live Forever
New York Times - 25-Jan-2018Today several biotech companies, fueled by Silicon Valley fortunes, are devoted to “life extensio...
Living Forever Has Never Been More Popular
Motherboard - 12-Aug-2016Zoltan Istvan reports from RAAD Fest – the biggest life extension festival in history. 1000 atte...
6 billionaires who want to live forever
Tech Insider - 01-Sep-2015Peter Thiel – cofounder of PayPal – in 2006 he pledged $3.5 million to the Methuselah Foundation ...
Silicon Valley Is Trying to Make Humans Immortal—and Finding Some Success
Newsweek - 05-Mar-2015
