Peter Thiel
 Peter Thiel        (venture capitalist, financier) | |
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| Born | Peter Andreas Thiel 1967-10-11 Frankfurt am Main, West Germany |
| Citizenship | Germany, United States, New Zealand |
| Alma mater | Stanford University, Stanford Law School |
| Religion | Christian |
| Founder of | Palantir Technologies, PayPal |
| Member of | Bilderberg/Steering committee, Jeffrey Epstein/Other associates, The Paypal Mafia, WEF/Young Global Leaders/2007 |
| Interests | • Life extension • Technology |
| Interest of | Barrett Brown, Palmer Luckey |
| Party | Libertarian Party |
Peter Thiel is a billionaire member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee whom Sam Biddle described for The Intercept in 2017 as "one of the American political mainstream’s most notorious figures".[1]
Contents
Career
He has worked for Sullivan & Cromwell. In 1998 Thiel co-founded PayPal together with Max Levchin. He sold it in 2004. He founded Palantir with Alex Karp and Joe Lonsdale in 2004, a company which at least by 2008 was collaborating with GCHQ.[1]
Citizenship
Born in Germany, he was granted New Zealand citizenship in 2011, after a donation of NZ$1 million ($730,000) to the Christchurch earthquake relief effort, although only having visited 4 times.[2]
Politics
Thiel describes himself as a "libertarian", has opposed women's suffrage[3] and has been a huge supporter of Ron Paul.[4] He has invested in online media such as Reddit.
Interests
Thiel has been funding private research into a range of topics, from helping to extend the human lifespan[5] to the harnessing of fusion power.[6]
Activities
Tom Scocca wrote in 2016 about the shuttering of Gawker that "a lie with a billion dollars behind it is stronger than the truth. Peter Thiel has shut down Gawker.com."[7]
A Quote by Peter Thiel
| Page | Quote |
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| Transhumanism | “I'm looking into parabiosis stuff, which I think is really interesting. This is where they did the young blood into older mice and they found that had a massive rejuvenating effect,” he said. “And so that’s . . . that is one that . . . again, it’s one of these very odd things where people had done these studies in the 1950s and then it got dropped altogether. I think there are a lot of these things that have been strangely under-explored.” |
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elon Musk | “Despite having perhaps the greatest entrepreneurial streak of all the PayPal Mafia, Musk was purged from PayPal like some kind of toxin. Soon after the merger, Thiel resigned.
Musk became CEO of the combined company and decided it was time for a technological overhaul. Specifically, he wanted to toss out Unix and put everything on a Microsoft (MSFT) platform. That may sound innocent enough to laypeople but not to Unix zealots like Levchin and his team. A holy war ensued. Musk lost. The board fired him and brought back Thiel while Musk was on a flight to Australia for his first vacation in years. “That’s the problem with vacations,” Musk deadpans. Musk still contends he didn’t deserve his fate, that his biggest flaw was being cut from different cloth. “Peter, Max, and I are not directly aligned philosophically,” he says. “Peter’s philosophy is pretty odd. It’s not normal. He’s a contrarian from an investing standpoint and thinks a lot about the singularity. I’m much less excited about that. I’m pro-human.”” | Elon Musk Fortune | 2007 |
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2007 | 31 May 2007 | 3 June 2007 | Turkey Istanbul | The 55th Bilderberg meeting, held in Turkey |
| Bilderberg/2008 | 5 June 2008 | 8 June 2008 | US Virginia Chantilly | The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests |
| Bilderberg/2009 | 14 May 2009 | 17 May 2009 | Greece Vouliagmeni | The 57th Bilderberg |
| Bilderberg/2010 | 3 June 2010 | 6 June 2010 | Spain Hotel Dolce Sitges Barcelona | The 122 guests met in the Hotel Dolce Sitges, Barcelona, Spain. |
| Bilderberg/2011 | 9 June 2011 | 12 June 2011 | Switzerland Hotel Suvretta St. Moritz | 59th meeting, in Switzerland, 129 guests |
| Bilderberg/2012 | 31 May 2012 | 3 June 2012 | US Virginia Chantilly | The 58th Bilderberg, in Chantilly, Virginia. Unusually just 4 years after an earlier Bilderberg meeting there. |
| Bilderberg/2013 | 6 June 2013 | 9 June 2013 | Watford UK | The 2013 Bilderberg group meeting. |
| Bilderberg/2014 | 29 May 2014 | 1 June 2014 | Denmark Copenhagen Marriott Hotel | The 62nd Bilderberg, with 136 guests, held in Copenhagen |
| Bilderberg/2015 | 11 June 2015 | 14 June 2015 | Austria Telfs-Buchen | The 63rd meeting, 128 Bilderbergers met in Austria |
| Bilderberg/2016 | 9 June 2016 | 12 June 2016 | Germany Dresden | The 2016 Bilderberg meeting took place in Dresden, Germany. |
| Bilderberg/2017 | 1 June 2017 | 4 June 2017 | US Virginia Chantilly | The 65th Bilderberg Meeting |
| Bilderberg/2018 | 7 June 2018 | 10 June 2018 | Italy Turin Hotel Torino Lingotto Congress | The 66th Bilderberg Meeting, in Turin, Italy, known for months in advance after an unprecedented leak by the Serbian government. |
| Bilderberg/2019 | 30 May 2019 | 2 June 2019 | Switzerland Montreux | The 67th Bilderberg Meeting |
| Bilderberg/2022 | 2 June 2022 | 5 June 2022 | US Washington DC Mandarin Oriental Hotel | The 68th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Washington DC, after an unprecedented two year hiatus during which a lot of the Bilderberg regulars were busy managing COVID-19 |
| Bilderberg/2023 | 18 May 2023 | 21 May 2023 | Portugal Lisbon Pestana Palace Hotel | The 69th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Lisbon, with 128 guests on the official list. The earliest in the year since 2009. |
| Bilderberg/2024 | 30 May 2024 | 2 June 2024 | Spain Madrid | The 70th Bilderberg Meeting |
| Munich Security Conference/2017 | 17 February 2017 | 19 February 2017 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 53rd Munich Security Conference |
| Munich Security Conference/2018 | 12 February 2018 | 14 February 2018 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 54th Munich Security Conference |
| Munich Security Conference/2020 | 14 February 2020 | 16 February 2020 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers." |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2013 | 23 January 2013 | 27 January 2013 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity" |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:JD Vance has some weird influences | Article | 17 July 2024 | Gavin Haynes | "I think Trump is going to run again in 2024", JD Vance once said. "I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people." |
| Document:Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy | Article | 4 August 2024 | John Naughton | Speaking to a Christian convention in Florida the other day, Donald Trump said: “Get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it any more. Four more years, you know what: it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians.” |
References
- ↑ a b https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palantir-helped-the-nsa-spy-on-the-whole-world/
- ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-01/billionaire-peter-thiel-sparks-new-zealand-passport-for-sale-row
- ↑ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/22/1093450/-Facebook-Billionaire-Peter-Thiel-It-sucks-that-women-have-the-vote
- ↑ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian
- ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/04/04/tech-titans-latest-project-defy-death/
- ↑ http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160428-the-secretive-billionaire-backed-plans-to-harness-fusion
- ↑ http://gawker.com/gawker-was-murdered-by-gaslight-1785456581
