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Johnson and Cummings’ secret meeting with Palantir founder revealed

Non-disclosure of apparent meeting a year before firm won NHS role raises serious questions over transparency

The Guardian - UK

Peter Thiel Believes You 'Get Many Chances' In Life, But If You Do This One Thing Then You Don't

Peter Thiel says success rarely comes just once and that entrepreneurs can earn multiple shots at it if they keep iterating after missteps.

Benzinga

Seasteading is making a comeback — but these utopian paradises on the high seas have a history of failure

IN FOCUS: They promised utopian paradises, unshackled by governments and buoyed by tech. What they built instead was a costly illusion. Holly Baxter reports on how seasteading started, unraveled and is now rising again in popularity

The Independent UK

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Alex Karp Wanted $250K While Building Palantir With Peter Thiel—Now Worth $14 Billion, PLTR CEO Recalls How Dyslexia Taught Him To Reject Conformity

Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) CEO Alex Karp reveals his unconventional journey from modest financial goals to leading a data analytics giant worth over $370 billion in market capitalization.

Benzinga

Saquon Barkley's Winning Investments Include Bitcoin, Polymarket, Anduril & Neuralink: Why NFL Star Has Turned To Equity

NFL star Saquon Barkley won a Super Bowl and the Offensive MVP award last season, which came after making a move from the New York Giants to Philadelphia Eagles. Along with success on the field, Barkley is winning off the field with his investment strategy.

Benzinga

Peter Thiel-Backed Bullish Is Trending Overnight: Here's Why

Bullish (NYSE:BLSH) declined 1.75% in after-hours trading to $53.31, down from its closing price of $54.26 on Wednesday. According to Benzinga Pro data, the cryptocurrency exchange closed regular trading down 12.53% and continued facing selling pressure following its groundbreaking initial public offering (IPO) settlement.

Benzinga

Peter Thiel is delivering 4 private sold-out lectures at a club in San Francisco—about the Antichrist

The Palantir cofounder will explore how Christian theology intersects with modern technology in four private lectures merging faith and business.

Fortune

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US Eyes Blockchain GDP Data, Peter Thiel-Backed Exchange Shuns London, Trump Family Token Emerges, Solana Rally Looms — This Week In Crypto

The weekend was a whirlwind of activity in the cryptocurrency world. From predictions of Solana’s potential surge to the historic move of publishing US GDP data on blockchain, the crypto market was abuzz with news.

Benzinga

AI Apocalypse? Why language surrounding tech is sounding increasingly religious

Geoffrey Hinton is sounding the alarm about the risks of artificial intelligence

The Independent UK

Peter Thiel's Brutal Chess Moves Convinced A Rival To Fund His First Startup—'So Ruthless, So Merciless'

Investor Peter Thiel is known for his help in creating or shaping several companies, including PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL), Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR), and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META).

Benzinga

Varda Raises $187 Million To Propel In-Space Medicine Manufacturing

Varda Space Industries completed a $187 million Series C funding round in July, lifting the total capital haul for the space startup to $329 million. Natural Capital and Shrug Capital led the fundraiser, with participation from Founders Fund, Peter Thiel, Khosla Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, Lux Capital and Also Capital.

Benzinga

Peter Thiel Once Said Elon Musk And Mark Zuckerberg Are Convincing, But Jensen Huang's Nvidia Is The Real AI Race Winner Because Of This One Reason

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel once said that he won't choose between Elon Musk, Sam Altman or Mark Zuckerberg in the AI race, but argued that Jensen Huang-led Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) was dominating the hardware layer—a feat made possible because, ironically, only a few talented founders pursued semiconductors after the early…

Benzinga

Leaked Emails Reveal Jeffrey Epstein's Connections to the Surveillance Industry

Leaked emails show Epstein’s attempts to dabble in security tech—across borders—in the last years of his life.

Reason

Bitcoin Is On Top, Ethereum Has Some Catching Up To Do: The Crypto Treasury Play Unfolding On Wall Street

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) reigns supreme as the leading asset in treasury allocations. However, its younger sibling Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) has lately emerged as a stronger contender in the race.

Benzinga

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Peter Thiel-Backed Crypto Exchange Snubs London Listing Amid Liquidity Concerns, Weighs Frankfurt Or New York: Report

European cryptocurrency exchange Bitpanda has decided against a potential listing in London due to concerns about liquidity in the city’s capital markets, according to a report published late Monday.

Benzinga

Cathie Wood-Backed BitMine Slides Pre-Market As Ethereum Reverses From Record Highs—But This Peter Thiel-Linked ETH Treasury Stock Has Gained

Shares of Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) treasury companies opened lower in Monday’s pre-market trading after ETH failed to sustain its rally to record highs.

Fortune

Gen Z want 'secure' jobs in healthcare—but this CEO left the industry after realizing he could make millions getting Americans to eat more fruit instead

A medical school grad walked away from a secure path in health care to build a $100 million snack company. Now he hires without even looking at degrees.

Benzinga

Palantir, Peter Thiel Targets Of Protest Groups That Took On Elon Musk, Tesla: 'People Over Billionaires'

Multiple community action and protest groups that once targeted Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and CEO Elon Musk over his push into politics have a new target set for "People Over Billionaires" rallies in large cities on Aug. 22.

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Peter Thiel-Backed Bullish Sets New Trend, Accepts $1.15 Billion Going Public Money In Stablecoins Like USDC: 'New Normal' In Making?

Cryptocurrency exchange Bullish (NYSE:BLSH) announced Tuesday that it received $1.15 billion of its initial public offering proceeds in stablecoins, marking a historic first in the U.S. IPO scene.

Benzinga

Palantir, AMD, Oracle, Viking And Nvidia: Why These 5 Stocks Are On Investors' Radars Today

U.S. stock indices closed mixed on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average edging up 0.02% to 44,922.27. The SP 500 slipped 0.6% to 6,411.37, while the Nasdaq saw a steeper drop, tumbling nearly 1.5% to 21,314.95.These are the top stocks that gained the attention of retail traders and investors…

Benzinga

Cathie Wood's $21 Million Tuesday Move: Peter Thiel's Crypto Play Gets Boost In Ark Portfolio

Cathie Wood-led Ark Invest made significant trades on Tuesday with notable activity in Bullish (NYSE:BLSH), Robinhood Markets Inc. (NASDAQ:HOOD), and Tempus AI Inc. (NASDAQ:TEM).

Benzinga

Peter Thiel Played Role In Ethereum Creation, Names Companies After 'Lord Of The Rings': 5 Facts You Might Not Know About PayPal, Palantir Co-Founder

Peter Thiel is best known to many investors as the co-founder of PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ:PYPL) and Palantir Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:PLTR).

Barchart

Cathie Wood Is Buying BLSH Stock After the Bullish IPO. Should You?

Visionary investor Cathie Wood has doubled down on Bullish. But is the post-IPO dip a chance or a warning?

Benzinga

Mark Zuckerberg Once Admitted He Made An Early Mistake That Cost Him Billions, But Then Said It's Fine: Here's Why

The Meta Platforms, Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg once reflected on one of the most pivotal — and costly — missteps in Facebook's early history during a candid talk at Y Combinator's Startup School.

Fortune

These Gen Z and millennial founders dropped out of college, took $200,000 from Peter Thiel, and have now built companies worth over $100 billion

The Thiel fellowship awards $200,000 to young people who skip or leave college to spend two years building a startup, with notable alumni including Figma CEO Dylan Field and Scale AI cofounder Lucy Guo.

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