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  • 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

  • Friday, 1 December, 2017
    ReviewSpecial Report
    Book review: The-Know-It-Alls by Noam Cohen — hostile view of free speech

    A study of the ‘powerful uber-confident men’ who shaped the Web

  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2017
    FT AlphavilleKadhim Shubber
    Further reading
  • Friday, 17 November, 2017
    FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska
    On the (non) viability of start-up islands
  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2017
    US & Canadian companies
    PayPal defends policy after report that hate groups used its services
  • Monday, 10 July, 2017
    US & Canadian companies
    Deutsche Börse buys into Soros-backed bond trading platform

    NY-based Trumid has also previously raised money from venture capitalist Peter Thiel

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