Peter Thiel

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Jim O'Neill
Politics

The new head of the CDC has no training in medicine and once helped Peter Thiel develop man-made islands floating outside U.S. territory

By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press
August 29, 2025
Palantir's Peter Thiel holds up a wad of cash
Success

These Gen Z and millennial founders dropped out of college, took $200,000 from Peter Thiel, and have now built companies worth over $100 billion

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August 16, 2025
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Success

Figma’s CEO sent cold emails to and bought coffee for his ‘heroes’ while convincing ex-coworkers to use his product before its $68 billion success

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August 11, 2025
Shyam Sankar sitting
Success

Palantir’s CTO became an overnight billionaire thanks to soaring stock—he’s the $411 billion AI firm’s fifth insider to join the ultra-wealthy club

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August 6, 2025
Figma CEO Dylan Field wearing a purple jacket and waving
Success

Figma’s CEO is now worth $5 billion after IPO—like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Bill Gates, he’s another college-dropout billionaire

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August 5, 2025
Dylan Field gestures with his arms while speaking
Tech

Figma’s 33-year-old cofounder is a former LinkedIn intern who launched the $68 billion Wall Street darling with $100k from Peter Thiel

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August 1, 2025
Hulk Hogan
Success

Hulk Hogan, wrestling superstar who helped reshape American media law, dies at 71

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July 24, 2025
Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre on June 16, 2023.
AI

Elon Musk says even if AI ultimately proves bad for humanity he still wants to be there to see it

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July 10, 2025
Peter Thiel
Banking

Peter Thiel is backing Palmer Luckey’s Lord of the Rings-inspired digital bank, but the name has a dark history

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July 7, 2025
Peter Thiel holds hundred dollars bills as he speaks
Success

Peter Thiel sold 20 million shares of Facebook just months after its IPO—but they’d be worth nearly $15 billion more if he had held on

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July 1, 2025
Elon Musk denies SpaceX is the frontrunner for Trump’s $500 billion ‘Golden Dome’ missile-defense project: ‘This is not true’
Politics

Elon Musk denies SpaceX is the frontrunner for Trump’s $500 billion ‘Golden Dome’ missile-defense project: ‘This is not true’

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May 21, 2025
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney in Seoul, South Korea, on Nov. 16, 2021. (Photo: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
Newsletters

Fortnite returns to the Apple App Store. But there’s a catch

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May 21, 2025
Peter Thiel’s protégés: a common thread runs through Trump’s tech team
Magazine

Peter Thiel’s protégés: a common thread runs through Trump’s tech team

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May 21, 2025
Stripe cofounders Patrick and John Collison

Stripe hits a $91 billion valuation amid ‘lumpy’ payments growth that cofounder says can’t be managed ‘on a supertight quarterly EPS basis’

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February 27, 2025
LinkedIn founder gesticulates on stage
Tech

Reid Hoffman says AI could ultimately benefit the human experience instead of making social isolation worse because it’s ‘infinitely patient’

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
January 27, 2025

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