Despite what has been previously reported, the idea is not so much about making immortality a thing and more about staving off the inevitable disease of ageing.
After 13 years of poking the bear Gawker is shutting down, and the last post ever is well worth the read. No punches spared, as we have come to expect.
The rumours of Silicon Valley suggest Peter Thiel is injecting himself with young people’s blood in order to remain, well, young…but are they true?
In a war of revenge Nick Denton takes on Peter Thiel, the man who has admitted to funding major lawsuits against Gawker.
Billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel believes that he can fight death and is putting the pieces in place to fulfill his “immortality project”.
How hard could it be? Surely if all the resources, employees and infrastructure are at your disposal – you too could run a Fortune 500 company That’s what this infographic aims to do – to help you find out if you’ll make the cut.
Venture capitalist, Peter Theil’s dream of an artificial island utopia for tech start-ups is inching closer to reality off the coast of San Francisco. Riding a wave of investment capital from Thiel, the project has a name – “Blueseed” – and a website, as well as a lengthy lineup of tech companies that want to get on board.
Don’t worry, the artificial libertarian islands will have better names than that. Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and early Facebook investor, has given $1.25 million to an initiative to build libertarian island states in international waters. Because that’s what you do when you’rea 43-year-old gay libertarian with money to kill, I guess.
Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and one of the first investors in Facebook, gave 24 kids under 20 each $100,000 to drop out of school for two years to start a their own companies. Some even left universities like Harvard and Stanford! Thiel is doing this in order to “challenge the authority of the present and the familiar.” I can kind of respect that.