Billionaire VC Peter Thiel has largely flown under the radar since raising his hand to support Donald Trump’s presidential bid, then working with Trump’s administration to fill some of its many vacant positions. The association made him deeply unpopular in Silicon Valley, though he says says people have not shown a “great deal of hostility […]
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Gawker is relaunching in early 2019
After a two-year hiatus, Gawker is coming back. Peter Thiel, be damned. Bustle-owner Bryan Goldberg, who paid $1.35 million for rights to the defunct gossip site in a bankruptcy auction in July, wrote in a memo to Bustle staff Tuesday that Gawker would relaunch next year with Amanda Hale, the former chief revenue officer of […]
View More Gawker is relaunching in early 2019GreyOrange raises $140M to develop fully-automated robotics for warehouses
GreyOrange, a Singapore-headquartered firm that develops robots for warehouses, has pulled in a $140 million Series C funding round as it targets more expansion and growth. The company was started in 2011. Today it has five regional offices across the world — covering India, Singapore, Japan, Germany, and the U.S. — three R&D centers and more than 60 […]
View More GreyOrange raises $140M to develop fully-automated robotics for warehousesKanye West is very excited about meeting Facebook board member and real human ‘Peter Teal’
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Kanye West is very optimistic about the future — a future that apparently includes floating libertarian cities, blood boys, Donald Trump, and none other than Facebook board member and second-rate Bond villain Peter Thiel.
In a flurry of Wednesday afternoon tweets, noted Trump supporter Kanye dropped a series of MAGA-themed missives on an unprepared world and shouted out his desire to meet with “Peter Teal.”
“I’m so happy to hear that Peter Teal would like to take a meeting,” read the tweet. “I feel very optimistic about the future.” Read more…
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View More Kanye West is very excited about meeting Facebook board member and real human ‘Peter Teal’Palmer Luckey, political martyr?
In the middle of testimony over Facebook’s privacy scandal, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas took a moment to grill Mark Zuckerberg over his company’s political loyalties. In the course of a testy exchange between Sen. Cruz and Zuckerberg, the senator brought up the dismissal of Palmer Luckey, the controversial founder of virtual reality tech development […]
View More Palmer Luckey, political martyr?How to watch Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony
Mark Zuckerberg heads to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to answer for Facebook’s data-harvesting sins. And you can watch it live in all of its sure-to-be-schadenfreude-filled glory.
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Palantir confirms a staff link with Cambridge Analytica
Turns out there is a link between Peter Thiel’s secretive big data analytics firm, Palantir, and Cambridge Analytica — the political consulting firm at the center of the current Facebook data misuse scandal. Facebook responds to data misuse Starting in 2013, the New York Times reports that a UK-based Palantir employee worked with Cambridge Analytica — going […]
View More Palantir confirms a staff link with Cambridge AnalyticaFacebook hit with shareholder lawsuits over data misuse crisis
The lawsuits are piling up against Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse and political ad targeting scandal. According to SF Gate the company has been hit with four suits in federal courts so far this week following fresh revelations about how Facebook’s app permissions were abused to surreptitiously suck out vast amounts […]
View More Facebook hit with shareholder lawsuits over data misuse crisisFacebook board member Peter Thiel helped fund Cambridge Analytica’s work
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Mark Zuckerberg has 40 billion reasons to be mad at Cambridge Analytica, but he should save at least some of that anger for Facebook board member Peter Thiel.
That’s because Thiel, who infamously supported the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, also happened to donate $1,000,000 in October of 2016 to the Super PAC Make America Number 1 — an organization that paid Cambridge Analytica $231,352 toward the end of the same year, an FEC filing shows.
That’s the same Cambridge Analytica, of course, that worked on behalf of Donald Trump’s campaign for president. Trump secured the Republican party nomination in July of 2016. Read more…
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View More Facebook board member Peter Thiel helped fund Cambridge Analytica’s workOne of the youngest fund managers in the U.S. just launched her own accelerator, too
Last August, we told you about Laura Deming, a New Zealand native who was home schooled before moving halfway around the world as a 12-year-old to work alongside Cynthia Kenyon, a renowned molecular biologist who specializes in the genetics of aging. She didn’t stay long. At age 14, Deming began her college career at MIT. When she […]
View More One of the youngest fund managers in the U.S. just launched her own accelerator, tooThe dinner that destroyed Gawker
This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s new book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, available now. Peter Thiel’s vague idea to do something about Gawker, the site that had outed him as gay in 2007, was concretized into conspiracy on April 6, 2011. It began unremarkably, when Thiel traveled to Germany to speak at a conference and had dinner with… Read More
Author Ryan Holiday on “the nature of world-altering success”
It could be said that the first few years of this current tech boom were fueled by mostly harmless, relatively easy products—websites for sharing your photos, for looking up stuff, for connecting with old friends. And the people who made them were seen as mostly good people. Yet this feel-good perception has slowly and then suddenly disappeared. Users have begun to regard once trusted… Read More