Trump reportedly told Peter Thiel they'd be friends for life — and then...
Peter Thiel was the only major Silicon Valley mogul to publicly back Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Trump showered Thiel with praise but failed to return his calls after he was elected...
View ArticlePeter Thiel, who famously helped bankrupt Gawker, is now attempting to buy...
Peter Thiel has submitted an undisclosed bid to purchase Gawker, the media site he famously helped bankrupt by funding a lawsuit against the publication in 2016. It's speculated that Thiel wants to own...
View ArticleHow a 23-year-old Max Levchin got Peter Thiel to invest in his startup —...
At age 23, Max Levchin moved to Palo Alto, where some of his former startup cofounders lived.One former cofounder recommended he talk to Peter Thiel, who was teaching a class at Stanford. Levchin...
View ArticleThanks to Al Gore's fund, this Facebook cofounder's startup is now worth $900...
The collaboration and productivity application company Asana raised $75 million in a series D, the company announced Tuesday. Asana is now valued around $900 million, according to sources close to the...
View ArticlePeter Thiel's VC firm is reportedly planning to lead a $15 million investment...
Gameshow app HQ Trivia is reportedly in funding talks with one of the top San Francisco venture capital firms, Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.Recode reports that the firm intends to lead a $15 million...
View ArticleBillionaire Peter Thiel is building a panic room into his house in New...
Billionaire Peter Thiel was granted New Zealand citizenship in 2011.Since then, the PayPal cofounder has been regularly buying properties.Thiel bought a four-bedroom property in Queenstown for $4.8...
View ArticleNetflix's CEO reportedly offered to resign from Facebook's board after...
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings reportedly offered to resign from Facebook's board over his disagreement with Peter Thiel's support of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to The Wall Street...
View ArticlePeter Thiel is moving out of Silicon Valley and might leave Facebook's board...
Venture capitalist Peter Thiel is moving to Los Angeles and considering leaving Facebook's board of directors, according to The Wall Street Journal.Thiel's political leanings came under fire from many...
View ArticleThe life and rise of billionaire investor Peter Thiel, Trump’s biggest...
Peter Thiel, one of Silicon Valley's most successful and controversial venture capitalists, is reportedly leaving the Bay Area.The outspoken libertarian will reportedly relocate his home, personal...
View ArticlePeter Thiel's campaign to destroy Gawker was reportedly inspired by a...
A mysterious "Mr. A" allegedly inspired Peter Thiel to try and destroy news site Gawker.The Silicon Valley investor subsequently secretly bankrolled legal cases against the company, culminating in it...
View ArticleFacebook reaches a $35 million settlement for class-action lawsuit over its...
Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg reached a $35 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought on by shareholders.The shareholders claimed that Facebook had been hiding concerns about its growth...
View ArticleA 39-year-old who left college to found his first biotech company now manages...
Christian Angermayer, a 39-year-old investor, left college in the late 1990s to help found a biotech company that would eventually become Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.When he sold the company, Angermayer...
View ArticleSan Francisco is losing more residents than any other city in the US,...
More residents are leaving San Francisco than any other US city, according to data from real-estate site Redfin.A growing number of those considering the move are Silicon Valley investors, The New York...
View ArticleThis startup just got $114 million to help people get ‘a better deal from the...
Mighty, a New York City-based startup that focuses on litigation finance, just got $9 million in equity funding plus $105 million more for its first investment fund. In litigation finance, investors...
View ArticleA Silicon Valley billionaire's dream of a floating libertarian utopia may...
Peter Thiel's dream of a libertarian utopia in the middle of the ocean may have finally sunk.Radio New Zealand is reporting that the French Polynesian government has not renewed its agreement to help...
View ArticleHere are the most popular Google auto-complete results for Silicon Valley’s...
Google's auto-complete features gives you a drop-down menu of suggestions based on the most popular queries related to whatever you're searching.If you start searching for a story about a tech CEO, for...
View ArticleAn island nation that told a libertarian 'seasteading' group it could build a...
The Seasteading Institute set out on a mission to build a floating, libertarian utopia in the middle of the ocean.French Polynesia, an island nation that once agreed to let the institute develop the...
View ArticleHow these 23 entrepreneurs became the lesser known co-founders of the biggest...
When a tech company reaches a certain level of success, the names of the founders often become synonymous with the brand they create. At least, that's the case with founders who are the "face" of the...
View ArticleBillionaire investor Peter Thiel says that Trump will win a second term — 'if...
On Thursday, influential tech mogul Peter Thiel predicted that President Trump will win the 2020 election if he decides to run for office.In a candid conversation with journalist Maria Bartiomo, Thiel...
View ArticlePeter Thiel thinks that bitcoin will be the one cryptocurrency to rule them all
Tech investor Peter Thiel talked cryptocurrencies, the potential outcome of the 2020 election, and Silicon Valley's insulated culture during a fireside chat at the Economic Club of New York on...
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