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    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Silicon Valley Bank
      Peter Thiel had $50mn in Silicon Valley Bank when it went under

      Prominent investor’s Founders Fund among those that had warned about US bank’s risks ahead of its collapse

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      Peter Thiel’s fund wound down 8-year bitcoin bet before market crash

      Billionaire was early mainstream investor in the digital currency but VC fund no longer has significant exposure

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Republican Party US
      Peter Thiel brands US midterms a ‘depressing disaster’ for Republicans

      Billionaire venture capitalist ploughed more than $30mn into backing GOP candidates

    • Friday, 21 October, 2022
      US midterm elections
      Peter Thiel’s venture capital-style political strategy yields low returns

      Tech investor’s quest to become Republican party political kingmaker has faltered as US midterm elections loom

    • Wednesday, 7 September, 2022
      FT MagazineGillian Tett
      Palantir, protests and shedding light on ‘spy tech’

      Why we should hear more, not less, from the people running big data

    • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
      News in-depthUS politics & policy
      Thiel re-emerges as political force bankrolling Trump-friendly Senate bids

      Billionaire tech investor has donated over $10mn to JD Vance in Ohio and Blake Masters in Arizona

    • Monday, 11 April, 2022
      Moral Money
      Exclusive: Why Thiel attacked ESG Premium content

      Plus, venture capital perks up to ESG, and black investors place more value on ethical investing than white counterparts

    • Friday, 8 April, 2022
      #techFT
      Peter Thiel turns up his tirade against crypto foes Premium content

      Microsoft disrupts Russian cyber attacks, TalkTalk stalked, the piano reinvented

    • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
      Warren Buffett is bitcoin’s ‘enemy number one’, says PayPal founder Peter Thiel

      Libertarian tech investor challenges US finance leaders over criticism of cryptocurrencies

    • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
      Due Diligence
      Metaverse to MAGAverse: Peter Thiel’s political odyssey Premium content

      Plus, Beijing cracks down on China’s vape queen and Dmitry Balyasny tells DD why private markets are the next big thing for hedge funds

    • Friday, 11 February, 2022
      Person in the News
      Peter Thiel, the contrarian tech investor turns to politics

      In stepping down from Meta, the entrepreneur further shifts his money and ideas from Silicon Valley to Washington

    • Monday, 7 February, 2022
      Meta Platforms
      Peter Thiel plans to leave board of Facebook owner Meta

      Billionaire tech investor will focus on ‘political endeavours’ as he promotes Trump-aligned candidates

    • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
      Sebastian Kurz
      Sebastian Kurz leaves politics to join tech investor Peter Thiel

      Former Austrian chancellor takes up global strategist role at California-based investment company

    • Thursday, 21 October, 2021
      John Thornhill
      Climate tech 2.0 must sell venture capital on its future

      Earthshots can help the global emergency but serious innovations to tackle global warming need support

    • Thursday, 23 September, 2021
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      The Contrarian — who is the real Peter Thiel?

      Max Chafkin’s biography dishes up controversial titbits about the tech tycoon — but teeters on the verge of score-settling

    • Monday, 13 September, 2021
      Fani Papageorgiou
      Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos and the quest for immortality

      The billionaires’ race to reconfigure death is the latest manifestation of a timeless human fascination

    • Tuesday, 11 May, 2021
      Cryptocurrencies
      Billionaires Peter Thiel and Alan Howard back new $10bn crypto exchange

      The venture, Bullish Global, is betting on decentralised finance disrupting traditional markets

    • Friday, 4 September, 2020
      News in-depthPalantir Technologies Inc
      Wall Street has never seen a company like Palantir

      Controversial and heavily lossmaking, the consultant and maker of surveillance software is going public

    • Tuesday, 25 August, 2020
      Due Diligence
      Spac roulette: billionaires’ new favourite pastime Premium content

      The structure now seems perfectly comfortable going for highly speculative companies

    • Tuesday, 7 July, 2020
      Palantir Technologies Inc
      Palantir files for stock market listing

      Data analytics group submits registration documents with SEC for long-awaited flotation

    • Friday, 6 September, 2019
      Henry Mance
      We are all enrolled on Donald Trump’s MBA course

      Mike Pence’s Irish visit leaves him in danger of failing the latest module

    • Thursday, 16 August, 2018
      Henry Mance
      New Zealand slams the door on Silicon Valley

      Tech gurus may have to rethink their apocalypse insurance

    • Tuesday, 17 July, 2018
      FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
      Further reading
    • Friday, 2 February, 2018
      Global migration
      British and US migrants flock to New Zealand

      Immigration surges after Brexit vote and Trump election shocks

    • Sunday, 10 December, 2017
      World
      New Zealand looks to ban foreigners from buying houses

      Proposals to tackle homeless crisis could make nation a global test case

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