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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 says Elon Musk's embrace of Donald Trump helped other Silicon Valley leaders feel safe supporting him

Billionaire Peter Thiel credited Elon Musk's public support of Donald Trump with helping other tech…

Erin Snodgrass   


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Peter Thiel was right about the 2024 election

Thiel predicted in September that the 2024 election was "not going to be close" as he declined to s…

Bryan Metzger   


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Palantir CEO said cofounder Peter Thiel's support of Trump made it hard to get things done

Palantir CEO Alex Karp said his cofounder Peter Thiel's public embrace of Trump made it harder to g…

Kelsey Vlamis   


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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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What JD Vance's rise tells us about the influence of Peter Thiel — and Silicon Valley in the age of Donald Trump

How should we think of JD Vance's connection to tech, and Peter Thiel's connection to Donald Trump?…

Peter Kafka   


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JD Vance urges Peter Thiel to back Trump: 'Get off the sidelines'

After spending millions to elect Vance in Ohio in 2022, the conservative tech billionaire stepped b…

Bryan Metzger   


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Peter Thiel predicts the 2024 election won't be close: 'One side is simply going to collapse'

The right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel said that the 'Kamala bubble' might burst, or Trump vot…

Bryan Metzger   


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Blake Masters, a close ally of JD Vance and Peter Thiel, just lost another election

Blake Masters lost to Abe Hamadeh despite winning a last-minute dual endorsement from Trump after J…

Bryan Metzger   


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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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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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Peter Thiel invests in group to recreate the Olympics on steroids — literally

PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel is backing an effort to create an Olympic Games that welcomes drug use…

Sarah Jackson   


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FEC lets Peter Thiel-funded super PAC off the hook

A complaint filed in June 2022 said that the Protect Ohio Values PAC illegally contributed to Sen. …

Bryan Metzger   


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Read the casual emails between Elon Musk and Sam Altman that kicked off OpenAI

Elon Musk unveiled emails between himself and fellow billionaire Sam Altman as evidence in the Tesl…

Erin Snodgrass   


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Melinda French Gates weighs in on the generosity of billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel: 'I would not call those men philanthropists'

Melinda French Gates said the new generation of "billionaire activists," like Elon Musk or Peter Th…

Kenneth Niemeyer   


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Palmer Luckey, Anduril's founder, will have an Attorney General for a brother-in-law if Matt Gaetz gets confirmed

Luckey founded the defense-tech startup Anduril Industries and the Meta-acquired Oculus VR. His sis…

Kwan Wei Kevin Tan,Matthew Loh   


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Silicon Valley's swing toward Trump is real. Here's the data to prove it.

California's San Francisco Bay Area is still solidly blue — but less than it used to be.

Rob Price   


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What is Elon Musk's net worth? Find out the wealth of the Tesla, SpaceX CEO

Elon Musk's net worth of $264 billion makes him the world's richest person. His wealth is closely t…

Grace Dean,Ana Altchek   


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Peter Thiel's 'Olympics on steroids' says it's considering letting athletes compete wearing Apple's Vision Pro

The Peter Thiel-backed Enhanced Games could be open to athletes using Apple's Vision Pro and "bioni…

Joshua Zitser   


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Peter Thiel was trapped inside a student debating hall by pro-Palestine protesters accusing him of genocide

Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel faced backlash from protestors over his company's war technology dea…

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