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Meet Peter Thiel, the controversial tech billionaire and GOP kingmaker
Peter Thiel, the billionaire cofounder of PayPal, is one of tech's most public Conservatives.
Madeline Berg
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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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Tech billionaire Peter Thiel says he only allows his children 1.5 hours of screen time a week
Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, strictly limits the time his …
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Billionaire FBI informant Peter Thiel dished about two Kremlin invites to private Putin meetings
Vladimir Putin's outreach to Peter Thiel, made through a Russian diplomat, occurred in 2018 at a pa…
Mattathias Schwartz,Hans-Mart…
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A phone call between Trump and conservative tech billionaire Peter Thiel reportedly turned 'pretty contentious'
Trump reportedly had some choice words for Peter Thiel after the tech billionaire and Republican me…
Haley Tenore
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Peter Thiel steps down from Meta's board of directors to focus on US midterm elections
According to reports, Thiel is retiring in order to focus on November's US midterm elections. He…
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Peter Thiel is resigning from Meta's board to focus on electing pro-Trump candidates at the 2022 midterms, reports say
In November's midterms, Thiel, an early Facebook investor, will help Republican candidates who supp…
Ben Gilbert
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Peter Thiel paid staff an extra $1,000 a month if they lived close to the office so they were more likely to work late, book says
Michael Gibson, who worked for Thiel for five years, made the claim in his book "Paper Belt on Fire…
Jyoti Mann
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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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Peter Thiel calls Warren Buffett an enemy of bitcoin and says the investor's criticism of crypto is weighing on its price
Buffett's dismissal of bitcoin as a worthless delusion, and his refusal to own crypto, have slowed …
Theron Mohamed
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Billionaire Peter Thiel says he's signed up to be frozen and preserved when he dies so people can revive him in the future if the tech even works
"We should either conquer death or at least figure out why it's impossible," Thiel said, adding tha…
Matthew Loh
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Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is reportedly pouring $1.5 million into a dating app for conservatives
Trump's former political aide is behind "The Right Stuff," which will cater to conservatives in lib…
Katie Canales
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Taking out debt used to be a mark of shame in the startup world. Investors like Peter Thiel are helping make it cool.
Startups know they'll have a harder time raising venture capital next year. Venture debt could make…
Emilia David
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Tech billionaire Peter Thiel says bitcoin's record-high price shows inflation is at a crisis point
PayPal founder Peter Thiel told a conference that bitcoin's record-high price was a sign of investo…
Harry Robertson
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Facebook board member Peter Thiel reportedly had dinner with a key white nationalist figure in 2016 and said he 'really enjoyed' meeting him
The revelation is likely to contribute to internal tensions at Facebook, where employees have prote…
Aaron Holmes
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Facebook lost a director to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway in March. Here are the social network's 9 board members.
The social network has replaced several other directors in the past 18 months: Netflix CEO Reed Has…
Theron Mohamed
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'The Social Network,' a fictionalized version of Facebook's founding story, is 10 years old. Here's where the people behind the characters are now.
(L) Jesse Eisenberg in 'The Social Network' (2010); (R) Mark ZuckerbergSony/Rick Friedman/Corbis vi…
Debanjali Bose
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Republican women who work on Capitol Hill are hesitant to sign up for conservative dating app backed by billionaire Peter Thiel: Daily Beast
Ryann McEnany has led the outreach to Republican staffers on Capitol Hill for the new dating app ca…
Lloyd Lee
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Trump backer Peter Thiel reportedly made $1.8 billion cashing out an 8-year bet on crypto – when he was still touting a massive bitcoin price surge
Thiel was predicting a 100-fold price surge for bitcoin around the same time Founders Fund cashed o…
George Glover
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Billionaire investor and Trump megadonor Peter Thiel praises Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as 'the best of the governors' for offering 'a real alternative to California'
Records show that Thiel — who has given millions to Senate candidates — has not donated to the Repu…