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
Tech-funded Enhanced Games will allow athletes to openly use performance-enhancing drugs
BBC - 28-Mar-2024
The controversial new sporting event sparks debates about ethics and safety
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CNBC - 19-May-2021
New competitor for Neuralink's brain implant, streamlining solution for neurological disorders
Read more...Comprehensive history and explanation of senescent cells
The Scientist - 01-Mar-2020
Including the latest on clinical trials of first-generation senolytics
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Guardian - 24-Jul-2018
Hoarding, and different forms of forced labor are among the future plans of the most powerful
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This Is Money - 17-Mar-2018
All the money in the world to fight ageing and death
Read more...Prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand
Guardian - 15-Feb-2018
If you’re interested in the end of the world, you’re interested in New Zealand. What they’re aft...
Read more...The Men Who Want to Live Forever
New York Times - 25-Jan-2018
Today several biotech companies, fueled by Silicon Valley fortunes, are devoted to “life extensio...
Read more...Living Forever Has Never Been More Popular
Motherboard - 12-Aug-2016
Zoltan Istvan reports from RAAD Fest – the biggest life extension festival in history. 1000 atte...
Read more...6 billionaires who want to live forever
Tech Insider - 01-Sep-2015
Peter Thiel – cofounder of PayPal – in 2006 he pledged $3.5 million to the Methuselah Foundation ...
Read more...Silicon Valley Is Trying to Make Humans Immortal—and Finding Some Success
Newsweek - 05-Mar-2015
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