Peter Thiel raised a $32 million fund to invest in startups in... New Zealand, reports the WSJ. The reports say he "set up" or "opened a fund", but this is not technically true. As we reported more than a year ago, Thiel has been actively investing in New Zealand for many years. His New Zealand ... Read more...
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07/11/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News,
Politics As Usual,
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Entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel spoke to a group of student entrepreneursat Stanford this evening, and at the end one student asked him what he thought the U.S. government should be doing to spur innovation. His response: "The U.S. government is socialism without the five-year plan. As a re... Read more...
Early Facebook investor and Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel thinks college is overhyped. Now he's giving 24 kids a tempting alternative to higher education. Thiel is going to pay some big-dreaming teenagers $100,000 over the course of two years to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. His pool... Read more...