The Strange Politics of Peter Thiel, Trump’s Most Unlikely Supporter The Republican Party’s new trade-loving, free-thinking, gay, Christian, antiwar, rich-as-hell, naturalized-citizen, Silicon Valley hero. Max Chafkin & Lizette Chapman July 21, 2016 — 4:00 AM CDT When Peter Thiel...
Thiel on the next Big Thing
PayPal Founder and Facebook Backer Peter Thiel on The Next Big Thing, and Why He Thinks College Isn’t Worth It By LINSEY DAVIS, MELINDA ARONS and JAKE WHITMAN May 27, 2011 (Peter Thiel is a strong Chess Master with...
Chess in mainstream advertising
Chess in mainstream advertising! (Note: One of PayPal’s founder is Peter Thiel, a USCF master who at one time was rated around 2350.) Special thanks to Leanne Hwa for sending it to us! Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Chess billionaire
Peter Thiel has enjoyed plenty of success in Silicon Valley. The San Francisco resident co-founded online payment site PayPal in 1998, which he would later sell for $1.5 billion. He struck gold again when he became the first outside...
Re-examine future of artificial intelligence
Public meeting will re-examine future of artificial intelligenceTom Abate, Chronicle Staff WriterFriday, September 7, 2007 For decades, scientists and writers have imagined a future with walking, talking robots that could do everything from cooking your eggs to enslaving your...