Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, has made a significant investment in a sports competition that openly embraces the use of performance-enhancing drugs. This move has sparked a major debate on the potential risks to athletes’ health and the integrity of the sport. What...

Over the years, investor Warren Buffett has been known for spotting value stocks that could go up over time, leading to strong returns for Berkshire Hathaway Inc (NYSE:BRK-A)(NYSE:BRK-B), where he serves as chairman. One sector that Buffett has mostly avoided is cryptocurrency. Here's a look at...

Despite facing a series of controversies, Elon Musk’s brain implant startup, Neuralink, has secured an additional $43 million in funding. What Happened: Neuralink’s funding was increased from $280 million to $323 million in early August. As per the SEC filing published last week,...

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk on Sunday voiced his disagreement with PayPal co-founder CEO Peter Thiel‘s popular ‘law’ on startups. What Happened: “A startup messed up at its foundation cannot be fixed,” Thiel told his student Blake Masters at Stanford in 2012...

German-American billionaire and PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel reportedly received invitations for private meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin on two separate occasions in 2018 and 2022.  What Happened: In 2018, at a lavish...

Top tech billionaire Peter Thiel, who once backed former President Donald Trump, expressed disappointment in the Trump administration, terming it as “crazier” and “more dangerous” than he anticipated. What Happened: Thiel, the PayPal co-founder, in an interview...

Leading investor Warren Buffett is well-known for his sharp investment eye and buying companies and acquiring stock and watching values rise over the years. One sector that Buffett has shied away from is cryptocurrency. Here's a look at Buffett's thoughts on cryptocurrency and how investors...

A report has unveiled German-American billionaire and PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel’s involvement as a “confidential human source” or CHS for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shedding light on a previously undisclosed aspect of his life. What Happened: Thiel...

German-American billionaire and PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) co-founder Peter Thiel thinks there is an "interdepartmental rivalry" and depending on who you ask, we are either living in a multiverse or a simulation. What Happened: In the World of DaaS podcast with Auren Hoffman, Thiel tried to...

A reportedly heated phone call between former U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel has come to light, Business Insider reported.  The call, which took place earlier this year, turned contentious as Trump accused Thiel of not showing...

Over the years, billionaire Elon Musk has been instrumental in the founding and funding of many well-known companies. As one of the co-founders of what became PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL), Musk received a payout when eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) acquired the financial technology company in 2002. A former...

Billionaire Elon Musk completed a $44 billion buyout of social media platform Twitter in 2022, a move that was done to help him get closer to creating an everything app. If Musk should choose to take Twitter public again in the future, he may be closer to securing his likely preferred stock ticker...

Best known as the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk also wears many other hats with titles of co-founder, owner and CEO pertaining to SpaceX, The Boring Company, Neuralink and social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. One of the companies co-founded by Musk recently landed a funding round...

One of Elon Musk's earliest business ventures was X.com, an online financial services company and his biographer Walter Isaacson shared an interesting anecdote from the venture's early days. When X.com merged with Palo Alto-based Confinity, Inc., cofounded by Peter Thiel, Max Levchin and Luke Nosek...

As Elon Musk sets out to rebrand Twitter as X and replace the bird logo as well, his biographer Walter Isaacson shed some light on the billionaire's infatuation with the name ‘X.' X’s Origin: Musk conceptualized the name ‘X' in 1999 as he was looking to start his next business venture and...