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Peter Thiel

  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    US society
    A time for truth and reconciliation

    Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets

    Donald Trump with his wife Melania at an election night event in November 2024
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    LexTechnology sector
    Do not bank on living forever in this lifetime Premium content

    The multibillion-dollar longevity industry, a coven of snake oil merchants, biohackers and geniuses, is tricky to quantify

    Image of a cryogenics chamber
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Nuclear energy
    Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund backs nuclear fuel start-up

    Incubation effort comes as Big Tech looks to atomic energy to meet soaring power demand for AI race

    The Three Mile Island nuclear plant is seen across the river. The plant features four large cooling towers with red lights. A small boat with two people on board is visible on the river in the bottom right corner.
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    JD Vance urges billionaire Peter Thiel to help bankroll Trump campaign

    Republican vice-presidential nominee also says Google ought to be broken up in FT interview

    J.D. Vance speaks passionately at a rally in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, pointing his finger while addressing the audience. He stands behind a podium with a microphone, with a crowd of supporters and various signs in the background.
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Due Diligence
    Peter Thiel’s defence tech darling Premium content

    Plus, the grand life of tech dealmaker Sandy Robertson and the shortfall plaguing Ohio’s $94bn pension fund

    An Anvil-M drone at Anduril‘s headquarters in California
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    News in-depthJD Vance
    How Thiel and Silicon Valley funded the sudden rise of JD Vance

    Donald Trump’s VP pick was a venture capitalist who has been bankrolled in business and politics by billionaire investor

    From left: Peter Thiel, JD Vance and Donald Trump, with US dollar notes in background
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    NHS England
    NHS data chief was ‘guest of honour’ at Palantir lobbyist’s dinner

    Event was hosted by Global Counsel, the lobbying firm co-founded by former Labour minister Lord Peter Mandelson

    A woman walks under a sign of US data analytics company Palantir
  • Sunday, 24 March, 2024
    Technology sector
    Thiel, Bezos and Zuckerberg join parade of insiders selling tech stocks

    Bosses sell hundreds of millions of dollars in company shares this quarter in sign that markets may be peaking

    Montage of Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg
  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Silicon Valley Bank
    Peter Thiel had $50mn in Silicon Valley Bank when it went under

    Prominent investor’s Founders Fund among those that had warned about US bank’s risks ahead of its collapse

    Peter Thiel
  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    Peter Thiel’s fund wound down 8-year bitcoin bet before market crash

    Billionaire was early mainstream investor in the digital currency but VC fund no longer has significant exposure

    Peter Thiel and a bitcoin logo in front of the colours of the Founders Fund logo
  • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
    Republican Party US
    Peter Thiel brands US midterms a ‘depressing disaster’ for Republicans

    Billionaire venture capitalist ploughed more than $30mn into backing GOP candidates

    Peter Thiel, pictured in November 2018
  • Friday, 21 October, 2022
    US midterm elections
    Peter Thiel’s venture capital-style political strategy yields low returns

    Tech investor’s quest to become Republican party political kingmaker has faltered as US midterm elections loom

    Left to right: JD Vance, Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
  • Wednesday, 7 September, 2022
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    Palantir, protests and shedding light on ‘spy tech’

    Why we should hear more, not less, from the people running big data

  • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
    News in-depthUS politics & policy
    Thiel re-emerges as political force bankrolling Trump-friendly Senate bids

    Billionaire tech investor has donated over $10mn to JD Vance in Ohio and Blake Masters in Arizona

    Peter Thiel giving a speech in April
  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
    Moral Money
    Exclusive: Why Thiel attacked ESG Premium content

    Plus, venture capital perks up to ESG, and black investors place more value on ethical investing than white counterparts

    Peter Thiel at last week’s Miami Bitcoin 2022 conference
  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    #techFT
    Peter Thiel turns up his tirade against crypto foes Premium content

    Microsoft disrupts Russian cyber attacks, TalkTalk stalked, the piano reinvented

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    Warren Buffett is bitcoin’s ‘enemy number one’, says PayPal founder Peter Thiel

    Libertarian tech investor challenges US finance leaders over criticism of cryptocurrencies

    Peter Thiel at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami
  • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
    Due Diligence
    Metaverse to MAGAverse: Peter Thiel’s political odyssey Premium content

    Plus, Beijing cracks down on China’s vape queen and Dmitry Balyasny tells DD why private markets are the next big thing for hedge funds

  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
    Person in the News
    Peter Thiel, the contrarian tech investor turns to politics

    In stepping down from Meta, the entrepreneur further shifts his money and ideas from Silicon Valley to Washington

    Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the news Peter Thiel
  • Monday, 7 February, 2022
    Meta Platforms
    Peter Thiel plans to leave board of Facebook owner Meta

    Billionaire tech investor will focus on ‘political endeavours’ as he promotes Trump-aligned candidates

    Peter Thiel speaks at a conference
  • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
    Sebastian Kurz
    Sebastian Kurz leaves politics to join tech investor Peter Thiel

    Former Austrian chancellor takes up global strategist role at California-based investment company

    Sebastian Kurz
  • Thursday, 21 October, 2021
    John Thornhill
    Climate tech 2.0 must sell venture capital on its future

    Earthshots can help the global emergency but serious innovations to tackle global warming need support

  • Thursday, 23 September, 2021
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    The Contrarian — who is the real Peter Thiel?

    Max Chafkin’s biography dishes up controversial titbits about the tech tycoon — but teeters on the verge of score-settling

  • Monday, 13 September, 2021
    Fani Papageorgiou
    Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos and the quest for immortality

    The billionaires’ race to reconfigure death is the latest manifestation of a timeless human fascination

  • Tuesday, 11 May, 2021
    Cryptocurrencies
    Billionaires Peter Thiel and Alan Howard back new $10bn crypto exchange

    The venture, Bullish Global, is betting on decentralised finance disrupting traditional markets

    Peter Thiel
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