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Peter Thiel

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Gawker’s legacy: 5 more chilling lawsuits meant to silence the media

Gawker’s legacy: 5 more chilling lawsuits meant to silence the media

Meet The Next 20 Genius Kids Getting $100,000 From Peter Thiel To Ditch College

Meet The Next 20 Genius Kids Getting $100,000 From Peter Thiel To Ditch College

Oscar Is A Health Insurance Startup For Digital Natives

Oscar Is A Health Insurance Startup For Digital Natives

With a $1.75 Billion Valuation Under Its Belt, What’s Next For Stripe?

With a $1.75 Billion Valuation Under Its Belt, What’s Next For Stripe?

A Young Clean-Tech Entrepreneur Learns Even Simple Design Ideas Face Challenges

A Young Clean-Tech Entrepreneur Learns Even Simple Design Ideas Face Challenges

Why Distraction Apps Matter

Why Distraction Apps Matter

UnCollege Focuses On The Opposition

UnCollege Focuses On The Opposition

The Secret Hiring Practice That Helped Max Levchin Build PayPal

The Secret Hiring Practice That Helped Max Levchin Build PayPal

How LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman Jumped Off A Cliff And Built An Airplane

How LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman Jumped Off A Cliff And Built An Airplane

This Year’s Thiel Fellows Include A Fashion Designer, A Poet, And A Harvard Dropout

This Year’s Thiel Fellows Include A Fashion Designer, A Poet, And A Harvard Dropout

Come to College! Get Funded! Northeastern Offers The Nation’s Only Student-Run Venture Accelerator, IDEA

Come to College! Get Funded! Northeastern Offers The Nation’s Only Student-Run Venture Accelerator, IDEA

At 17, Getting A License For A Self-Driving Startup

At 17, Getting A License For A Self-Driving Startup

Harnessing Tornados For Energy And More: The Radical Projects Funded By Peter Thiel

Harnessing Tornados For Energy And More: The Radical Projects Funded By Peter Thiel

The Right Geeks To Fill The GOP’s Tech Void

The Right Geeks To Fill The GOP’s Tech Void

In Five Years, You May Be Wearing A Lab-Grown Leather Jacket

In Five Years, You May Be Wearing A Lab-Grown Leather Jacket

Peter Thiel Bets Big On 3-D Printed Meat

Peter Thiel Bets Big On 3-D Printed Meat

Reid Hoffman On PayPal’s Pivoted Path To Success

Salesforce To Acquire Facebook Marketing Behemoth Buddy Media

Inside Stripe, The PayPal Competitor Backed By PayPal Founders Peter Thiel, Elon Musk

The Facebook IPO Players Club: Peter Thiel [Updated]

Ideas

This New Ad Campaign Shows The Faces Of Global Poverty–And Opportunity

This Blockchain-Based Energy Platform Is Building A Peer-To-Peer Grid

We Need A Better Way To Get Lithium, The Element Powering The EV Revolution

Entertainment

Can Netflix Slay The Mouse?

How Disney’s New Streaming Services Could Stack Up Against Netflix

How To Make A Harvey Weinstein Joke (If You Absolutely Must)

Co.Design

What It’s Like To See The World As A Self-Driving Car

Every Internet-Connected Device Should Come With A Warning Label

This Incredibly Simple Packaging Idea Could Reduce Global Emissions

Fast Company

This New Ad Campaign Shows The Faces Of Global Poverty–And Opportunity

Bob was the obviously problematic Weinstein, says Jeffrey Katzenberg

Arianna Huffington wants to keep your Facebook use under control