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Peter Thiel plays kingmaker again as Trump picks JD Vance for veep
Former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel has played an outsize role in helping JD Vance's career rocket in a s…
Hasan Chowdhury,Beatrice Nolan
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Peter Thiel says AI will be 'worse' for math nerds than for writers
Billionaire Peter Thiel said the expansion of AI will be "worse for the math people than the word p…
Lauren Edmonds
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Inside the disastrous early days of the Thiel Fellowship and the depression, mental health issues, and drug abuse that followed
Billionaire Peter Thiel created the fellowship on a whim to fix his image and mismanaged his earlie…
Dorothy Cucci
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Tech billionaire Peter Thiel is under fire from Arizona Republicans hoping to defeat his Trump-backed protégé Blake Masters in Senate primary
Highlighting Thiel's $13.5 million in spending, businessman Jim Lamon hopes to capitalize on GOP su…
Bryan Metzger
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Pet owners will freeze their dying animals to one day bring them back to life. Billionaire Peter Thiel is backing the technology to make it happen.
A startup backed by Peter Thiel aims to establish a network of veterinary clinics that provide stan…
Melia Russell
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The 8 Hottest Teenage Startup Founders In The World Right Now
We've ranked the most impressive teen tech entrepreneurs based on both their circumstances and succ…
Kyle Russell
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20-Year-Old College Dropout Has A Plan To Save The American Clothing Industry
When she starts her fellowship this year, Maxey will explore the ways garment manufacturing can be …
Lynne Guey
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A Thiel Fellow just closed his housing startup and evicted 150 people
That concept made it popular among people (especially tech industry workers) who were new to the ci…
Matt Weinberger
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5 Business Lessons From A Peter Thiel Fellow
"In the past, I always thought the ultimate move for me is to bring someone else with more experien…
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5 Business Lessons From A Peter Thiel Fellow
"In the past, I always thought the ultimate move for me is to bring someone else with more experien…
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Peter Thiel turns both barrels on Silicon Valley's 'extreme strain of parochialism'
His net worth stands at $2.5 billion, according to Forbes. He is a board member at Facebook, one of…
Jake Kanter,Jake Kanter
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This 19-Year-Old Genius MIT Dropout And Thiel Fellow Just Launched A Health Startup
"I think my philosophy on this and what frustrates me with people trying go to deal with this issue…
Megan Rose Dickey
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Want to start your own business? Know what helped OYO’s Ritesh Agarwal start his own company!
“The first quarter was spending at the bay area, hanging out with starters, learning from our mento…
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This Stanford dropout just landed $4.6 million from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund to help people automatically fight parking tickets
He said the company works with paralegals to identify municipal codes or other hyper-localized laws…
Megan Hernbroth
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This 24-year-old dropped out of college, won funding from Peter Thiel, then raised $480 million for his startup
The way Oyo works is by partnering up with smaller hotels, turning them into franchisees, and givin…
Shona Ghosh
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Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel is reportedly joining the Trump transition team
Thiel has been a strong Trump supporter since he delivered a speech at the Republican National Conv…
Biz Carson
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Tech billionaire Peter Thiel is reportedly donating $1.25 million to Donald Trump
Thiel, a controversial figure in tech who co-founded PayPal and Palantir and sits on Facebook's boa…
Lydia Ramsey
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Here's how Peter Thiel's college dropout entrepreneurs are doing
More lastingly, Thiel seems to have sparked a drive among bright high school kids with top-notch co…
Matt Rosoff
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PETER THIEL AT NATIONAL PRESS CLUB: Trumpism 'isn't crazy and it's not going away'
"President George W. Bush presided over the inflation of a housing bubble so big that its collapse …
Allan Smith
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Finally, a Silicon Valley billionaire is standing up to Peter Thiel in the Gawker case
Omidyar and Thiel have a history. Omidyar was the founder of eBay, and Thiel was a cofoun…