Articles about Peter Thiel

Data centers at sea: Panthalassa nets $140M led by Peter Thiel for wave-powered AI

By combining massive floating power generators with onsite AI hardware, Panthalassa turns the ocean into a self-sustaining computing powerhouse — all without needing a single mile of underwater power cables. Read More

Software vetting startup QA Wolf comes out of stealth with $20M from Peter Thiel and others

QA Wolf, a startup that helps other companies vet lines of code, emerged from stealth mode Wednesday after it raised… Read More

TLDR: Nest secretly buys digital health startup

Today’s featured stories Nest’s digital health ambitions revealed in records from secretive purchase of Seattle startup Senosis Backed by Seattle… Read More

Trump picks Peter Thiel’s top aide as White House’s deputy chief of technology

President Trump has tapped a top aide of Peter Thiel (best known for co-founding PayPal, investing in Facebook, and killing… Read More

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel defends Donald Trump as an outsider needed to counteract America’s ‘decline’

Billionaire tech investor and PayPal founder Peter Thiel has been making headlines since May with his ardent and vocal support of… Read More

Jeff Bezos slams Donald Trump for ‘eroding our democracy,’ but regrets tweet about sending him to space

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has tweeted just 68 times at his 144,000 followers in his limited use of Twitter, but he… Read More

Trump presidency would be a ‘disaster for innovation,’ tech leaders say in open letter

Donald Trump’s candidacy for president goes against everything the technology sector believes in and the prospect of his presidency would… Read More

Zuckerberg plans to run Facebook for a ‘very long time,’ even as he gives away stock

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may be planning to give away almost all of his stock in the company, but that… Read More

Prepare to be inspired by this Canadian engineer and his tornado energy project

If you grew up in Tornado Alley, you know the terrifying destruction that comes with tornado season. It’s hardly a… Read More

Marc Andreessen is retweeting a lot about weed today

Could Marc Andreessen be the next major investor eyeballing the burgeoning legal marijuana market? Mayhaps. It came to our attention today that… Read More

Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund invests in Seattle marijuana company

Founders Fund is betting big on marijuana. Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm today announced that it has made a multi-million… Read More

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel plans to live to 120, with a little help from his friend HGH

Well, here’s some more interesting news about the lifestyle habits of the tech world’s rich and famous. Venture capitalist and weed… Read More

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel reportedly participating in $75M round for Seattle marijuana investment company

Peter Thiel has a funny relationship with marijuana. In September, he bashed Twitter’s executives and said there was “probably a lot… Read More

Book review: Peter Thiel’s Zero to One challenges everything you’ve learned in business school

Competition is an epidemic and your college degree is worthless. At least, that’s the opinion of controversial entrepreneur Peter Thiel.… Read More