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...It’s the same idea that led to Robert Oppenheimer’s development of the atomic bomb....
...Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are much-cited. But the Santa Clara Valley, the world centre of ill-directed brainpower, has worse than them....
...Co-founder and Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel is known for making his own spooky pronouncements on global annihilation....
...President Joe Biden and his rival for the Democratic nomination, Robert F Kennedy Jr, along with South Carolina’s former Republican governor Nikki Haley have also toured the Bay Area in the past two weeks...
...Exclusive: Thiel’s fund wound down bitcoin bet before market crash Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, closed almost all of its eight-year bet on cryptocurrencies...
...Attempts to sideline him during Tesla’s launch phase fail after he hires Robert Downey Jr to be his friend....
...But when Mira explores the abandoned farmlands behind the closed Korowai Pass as potential new grounds, she encounters enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine — a rival prospector of the same terrain...
...Despite the backing of investors such as Peter Thiel-backed Valar Ventures and Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures in recent years, the music is stopping at Germany’s most valuable fintech....
...What else we’re reading Peter Thiel’s venture capital-style political strategy yields low returns Peter Thiel entered the 2022 midterm season with a bang, writing two $10mn cheques to a pair of handpicked...
...Libertarian billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel relocated to Los Angeles in 2018, indignant at what he saw as a left-leaning political class that had become intolerant of big business....
...His efforts to commercialise psychedelic substances for medical purposes have drawn investment from Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel and US cryptocurrencies investor Mike Novogratz, who have both partnered...
...More cryptocurrency news Vauld, the crypto lender backed by Coinbase and investor Peter Thiel, has halted withdrawals and trading on its platform....
...His Senate bid is supported by tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel....
...party isn’t over yet: this month, junk bond billionaire Michael Milken and his Milken Institute will host private meetings with financiers ranging from Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman to Vista Equity’s Robert...
...(FT) American oligarch A must-read excerpt from a new book about the billionaire technology investor Peter Thiel....
...Roberts, 77, has taken to mentoring his fellow private equity billionaire Durban, who is three decades his junior, the FT reported last year. Durban takes holidays near Roberts in Hawaii....
...The Founders by Jimmy Soni (Atlantic, May) tells the story of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the group of disrupters who “made” the modern internet....
...But Robert Armstrong says there is reason to be pessimistic. (FT)...
...Venter, founder of Celera Genomics; and stories of other lives cut short among the relatives and acquaintances of key protagonists in the tale, from Levinson to the inventor Ray Kurzweil and neurosurgeon Robert...
...Robert Stheeman, who heads the UK’s debt management office, told the FT in January he is “very confident” about the market’s ability to absorb another big rise in gilt issuance....
...The writer is Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution...
...Better later-stage than never What do Blackstone, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and the New York hedge fund group Tiger Global Management have in common?...
...News round-up Thomson Reuters begins search for new chief executive (FT) Coty plans sale of professional beauty division (FT) Saks Fifth Avenue-owner Hudson’s Bay agrees to buyout deal (FT) Peter Thiel...
...Brazil’s XP Investimentos hires banks for US IPO (Reuters) Cargill exits asset management business with sale of CarVal Investors (Reuters) Due Diligence is written by Arash Massoudi, Javier Espinoza and Robert...
...Mr Thiel owns a 193ha estate on Lake Wanaka, which he bought in 2015 for NZ$14.5m ($9.5m)....
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