Peter Thiel is one of the most intriguing, albeit elusive, characters in Silicon Valley. Back in 2000, he was busy working as a co-founder of online payments pioneer PayPal. As fate would have it, ...

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Coding has long been treated as the safest bet in the modern job market. For years, students were urged to learn programming while liberal arts majors were warned they might struggle to find stable ...

Who is the Antichrist, the biblical antagonist whose rise marks the beginning of the end-times? Peter Thiel recently took a stab at answering this age-old question. Thiel kicks off the lecture series ...

Discord announced earlier this month that all users will soon be defaulted to teen experiences until their ages are verified. Soon after, the messaging platform faced backlash from users and privacy ...

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The event, titled “Facebook, PayPal and the College Bubble: A Conversation with Peter Thiel,” was sponsored by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society and the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club. As a nation ...

Having apparently exhausted his interest in seasteading and blood transfusions from young people to ward off aging, gay Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel has found a new topic to explore: the ...

Bitcoin's value proposition stems from the cryptocurrency providing a peer-to-peer payments solution that operates independently from traditional banks. Thiel was initially drawn to the idea of ...