Topic: Peter Thiel

These Guys Will Make You Pay

Lots of Internet startups have tried to reshape finance. PayPal Inc. has pulled ahead of the pack by getting three things right: it built an easy-to-use system around email, it learned quickly from its mistakes, and it didn't invent a new currency.READ»

Hacker. Dropout. CEO.

When Mark Zuckerberg showed up in Palo Alto three years ago, he had no car, no house, and no job. Today, he's at the helm of a smokin'-hot social-networking site, Facebook, and turning down billion-dollar offers. Can this kid be for real?READ»

Inside "Inside Facebook"

One of the nice thing about being a magazine writer who also has access to a clean, well-lighted space on the internet, is that I get to resurrect some of tasty tidbits of reporting which get cut in the often brutal process of ...READ»

Inside Facebook - What's It Worth?

I recently spent a chunk of my life reporting a story on Facebook , the social networking phenomenon that seems to have swept away every person on the planet under 24 years of age. Nineteen million users worth. Or, as one ...READ»

Facebook: Selling To The Brand Called Me

Matt Cohler spends his day thinking about money. “Were still in a high growth period,” says the vice president of strategy. “I spend a lot of time on big problems. Number one, how to monetize the site as effectively as ...READ»

Ning's Infinite Ambition

It isn't just a site where users can build their own social networks -- Ning is a model of how to create a perpetual growth machine.READ»

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