In August, early Facebook investor Peter Thiel sold the majority of his shares in Facebook.
The same might be said of the fields targeted by the charities Thiel is funding.
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The Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel has been asking this question in speeches and interviews.
Peter Thiel pulled an iPhone out of his jeans pocket and held it up.
I've written cover stories on Facebook funder Peter Thiel and graphics-chip specialist Nvidia.
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In mid-2010, Thiel closed the New York office and moved Clarium back to San Francisco.
Thiel says sometimes you have to do what is wrong, and not very courageous.
Levchin recruited two engineers from University of Illinois and Thiel recruited Ken Howery from Stanford.
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Thiel himself has espoused similar views to Kasparov about the state of innovation in the country.
But what if Mish and Peter Thiel are right about a future education bubble?
Thiel is in effect, also encouraging college or even high-school dropouts with the under-20 requirement.
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Both Thiel and Steigman were chess prodigies as kids, and remain among the top-ranked U.S. players.
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The first is from Peter Thiel, the hedge fund investor behind the financing of Facebook.
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Meanwhile, Peter Thiel, through his Founders Fund, put some of his money into Lore.
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Mr Thiel's ambitions go far beyond scouting out the next big thing in technology.
But, as his personal fortune declined, Thiel developed his pessimistic theory of a tech slowdown.
Omar's project was to evaluate the unique lifelike properties of bodies embalmed using the Thiel method.
The information age has made Thiel rich, but it has also been a disappointment to him.
J. ended up starting their company in the Valley, with funding from Levchin and Thiel.
Stanford Law School grad, Peter Thiel, wants to pay college students to drop out.
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Valar, which is funded solely by its president Peter Thiel according to McCormack, has an undisclosed commitment.
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However in this case Mr Thiel's gripe was that the banks failed to appreciate LinkedIn's tremendous potential.
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Thiel, number seven on the Midas List, is known for his investments in Facebook, Zynga and LinkedIn.
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To get a return on his investment, Thiel only needs two of them to hit it big.
The fortune that Thiel has since accumulated has given him an influential role in Republican Party politics.
This is one of the questions we ask every finalist for the 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship.
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The funding, however, should help Upstart jump over that hurdle, and Thiel and Co. are betting it will.
Thiel is also funding Breakout Labs, which will pay for research into radical ideas with potentially huge implications.
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Thiel starts at the very top of the higher education system, but the reverberations may be felt throughout.
Thiel thinks that Americans who are beguiled by mere gadgetry have forgotten how expansive technological change can be.
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