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...In 2023, Stripe raised $6.5bn from venture capital investors including Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, in a private stock sale that was one of the largest...
...Trade Republic, which secured a €5bn valuation in 2022 and has raised a total of $1.3bn from investors including Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, last...
...He had been a senior member of the team at PayPal, working alongside Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Max Levchin and Reid Hoffman — a group later dubbed the “PayPal mafia” who went on to become some of Silicon Valley...
...Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, closed almost all of its eight-year bet on cryptocurrencies shortly before the market began to crash last year, generating about...
...OpenAI was founded in 2015 by some of the tech world’s most radical thinkers, including Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, as a non-profit to develop powerful AI safely....
...Elsewhere on Friday… — Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant (Insider) — Getir bets big on the US even as it bleeds cash (Rest of World) — Take that, astrolabe (London Review of Books) —...
...Too many rich people — Turchin gives Michael Bloomberg and Peter Thiel as examples — compete over a finite amount of political power. Too many graduates emerge from university overqualified....
...Led by chief executive Alex Karp and co-founded by Peter Thiel, the tech investor and prominent backer of Donald Trump, Palantir became the go-to data analytics provider for the NHS during the coronavirus...
...It raised $6.5bn from investors including Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, which allowed it to pay billions of dollars of tax liabilities associated with...
...Led by chief executive Alex Karp and co-founded by Peter Thiel, the tech investor and prominent backer of Donald Trump, the company became the NHS’s go-to data analytics provider during the pandemic....
...Read more on Peter Thiel and SVB here...
...While many of the early studies into the effect of psychoactive substances on mental health were funded by philanthropy, billionaire evangelists for the drugs like tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel, German financier...
...Peter Thiel said he had $50mn in Silicon Valley Bank when it went under, even after his venture fund warned portfolio companies that the tech-focused lender was at risk....
...I am not invoking Peter Thiel’s stagnation thesis here. He is right that our species is innovating more with “bits” than with “atoms”. But there are good Newtonian reasons for that....
...Over the past decade, N26 raised $1.8bn from investors including Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures and Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures....
...Public power In online communities devoted to libertarian figures such as PayPal founder (and Helion investor) Peter Thiel, nuclear evangelism is something of a religion....
...Since it was founded in 2013, the bank has raised $1.8bn from investors including Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures and Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures....
...Just two months after resigning he signed up as a “global strategist” for billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel’s Thiel Capital....
...Peter Thiel has made his first public comments on this year’s US midterms, declaring the results “a depressing disaster” after ploughing more than $30mn into Republican races....
...Palantir is led by chief executive Alex Karp and co-founded by Peter Thiel, the tech investor and prominent backer of former US president Donald Trump....
...Other platforms have popped up specifically to serve conservative audiences, such as video network Rumble, which is financed by Peter Thiel, Trump’s Truth Social and video-sharing site BitChute....
...The same applies to many in his cohort, such as Peter Thiel, Ken Griffin and Charles Koch. Watch what they do, not what they say....
...Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are much-cited. But the Santa Clara Valley, the world centre of ill-directed brainpower, has worse than them....
...Njoy, whose early backers include Peter Thiel and Bruno Mars, last year received approval from the US regulator to keep selling its Ace and Njoy-branded vaping products....
...Peter Thiel entered the 2022 midterm season with a bang, writing two $10mn cheques to a pair of handpicked Senate candidates and positioning himself as the Republican party’s next political kingmaker....
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