Its backers at the time included Thiel, Alan Howard, Louis Bacon and Richard Li, according to a statement. Howard subsequently sold his stake, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and prominent supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, is also something of a political theorist. His latest work is an essay ...

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Big Tech oligarchs in Silicon Valley fear competition from Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek, so they're working with the US ...

The venture capitalist Peter Thiel, for example, could not be more of an establishment figure: He was an early investor in Facebook, is now a mentor of Vice President–Elect J. D. Vance ...

Thiel’s party for four hours as the temperature dropped. The who’s who of Silicon Valley and Washington converged at Peter Thiel’s Beaux-Arts mansion in D.C. on Saturday evening, as the ...

Thiel’s piece Friday in the Financial Times looked forward to a time of “truth and reconciliation” in the Trump administration. william.vaillancourt@thedailybeast.com Got a tip? Send it to ...

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Peter Thiel, the billionaire supporter of Donald Trump, had much to say in an op-ed Friday in the Financial Times, resulting in some critical feedback. In “A Time for Truth and Reconciliation”—a ...

The United States federal government has been infiltrated by a group of young, unvetted technology engineers handpicked by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and aligned with gay billionaire venture capitalist Peter ...