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Peter Thiel: Asperger’s can be a big advantage in Silicon Valley
Peter Thiel — the PayPal founder, Facebook investor, and bestselling author— hates groupthink.He avoids hiring MBAs, since he says they tend to be "high extrovert/low conviction people," a combination...
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Here's the paradoxical trait that Peter Thiel looks for in employees
Peter Thiel's eye for talent has helped him become a billionaire. He partnered with Elon Musk to found PayPal in the early 2000s, then became the first large investor for Facebook, a move that would...
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Tech billionaires are trying to defeat death
Even the most optimistic of today's big-dreaming tech luminaries — people like Peter Thiel, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page — know that living forever is a most-likely impossible goal.Yet...
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The amazing story of how a complete stranger convinced Peter Thiel to let him...
Not many people get the chance to invest in a hot Silicon Valley startup, much less a wildly successful one as PayPal, which sold for $1.5 billion to eBay in 2002.You need the money, connections, and...
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Billionaire investor Peter Thiel: 'Always aim for a monopoly. From society's...
Billionaire technology investor Peter Thiel gave an on-stage interview in London on Wednesday night, where he explained his political philosophy, as well as what he looks for in investments.One of the...
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Here's how Peter Thiel's college dropout entrepreneurs are doing
In 2011, billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel made waves when he set up a fellowship to pay promising college students $100,000 to drop out of school and start companies instead.Four years later,...
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Peter Thiel just made his third investment in a London company
Valar Ventures, the US-based venture fund backed by Peter Thiel, just made another investment in a London-based company.Lystable has secured $1.5 million (£973,350) from Valar Ventures, making it only...
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Billionaire Peter Thiel is giving these 20 kids $100,000 to drop out of...
Today the Thiel Foundation announced its next class of 20 fast-tracked college dropouts hoping to be the next Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates. These Thiel Fellows will each receive $100,000 and a wealth...
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The artist who painted Facebook's 1st office took stock instead of cash — and...
Sean Parker persuaded artist David Choe to take stock instead of cash for painting the walls of Facebook's first office. Now that stock is worth $200 million.This exchange happened back in 2005, when...
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US payment startup Stripe's new plan threatens to crush one of Europe's...
Stripe, the £3.2 billion ($5 billion) US online payments start-up, is rolling out across the Nordics, taking it head-to-head with one of Europe’s most valuable fintech businesses.Stripe’s co-founder...
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Palantir is reportedly raising $500 million at a $20 billion valuation,...
Palantir is raising $500 million at a valuation of $20 billion, according to a report by Buzzfeed on Tuesday.The new funding would make the secretive data analytics company the third highest-valued...
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How Peter Thiel is trying to save the world
In 2010, Brian Frezza and D.J. Kleinbaum were four hours from leaving Silicon Valley for good.Since childhood, the two best friends had been incubating a shared dream of using computer science to cure...
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Some partners at this VC firm worried that investing in Facebook at $500...
Back in 2006, Greylock Partners participated in a $27.5 million Series B round of financing for a startup valued at $500 million.You might have heard of it? It's called Facebook. Nowadays, it looks...
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Facebook’s first intern just landed $50 million from Peter Thiel and other...
Darian Shirazi started his career at 15 years old, when he made his name reselling computer components on eBay. His sales were so impressive that eBay ended up offering him an internship for the next...
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A controversial effort to defeat death is underway
Tech billionaires such as Peter Thiel, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into research projects designed to slow or even stop aging.These projects...
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6 billionaires who want to live forever
A growing number of tech moguls are trying to solve their biggest problem yet: Aging. From reprogramming DNA to printing organs, some of Silicon Valley's most successful and wealthy leaders are...
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Peter Thiel is backing a startup that lets you buy shares from news stories
New York mobile stock buying startup Trading Ticket has raised $4 million (£2.6 million) from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel's fund Valar Ventures and Citibank's venture capital arm.Trading Ticket...
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Meet Wall Street's favorite Silicon Valley incubator (DB, PYPL, LC)
Plug and Play is a West Coast technology accelerator and investor which counts DropBox, Zoosk and SoundHound as portfolio companies. It is also now home to a financial technology program, running two...
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Peter Thiel backed this startup that wants to cure cancer, and it's worth $5...
Stemcentrx, a startup with funding from billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, just came out of stealth at a $5 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reports.Last month Stemcentrx raised a $250...
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5 questions for the startup backed by Peter Thiel and George Soros that lets...
TruMid, a bond-trading startup, said Tuesday that it is raising capital from venture capitalist Peter Thiel.Thiel is participating in a $27 million round alongside a private investment fund managed by...
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