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How the ultra-rich are souping up their high-tech bunkers for the end times
August 9, 2024 | 1:18pmBowling alleys? Check. Private medical areas? Check. Today, millionaires and billionaires are kitting out their bunkers with over-the-top extras.
Silicon Valley to wield more influence than Wall Street in second Trump administration if he wins: report
July 23, 2024 | 11:34amIf Trump wins the White House, tech executives are expected to have greater influence while Wall Street financiers take a back seat.
Silicon Valley cheers JD Vance VP pick as more tech billionaires back Trump
July 16, 2024 | 4:09pmWhile best known as author of the best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” which detailed the plights and concerns of Rust Belt voters, Vance also has close ties to the tech industry.
LinkedIn co-founder, Dem donor tries to clean up comment wishing Trump was an 'actual martyr'
July 14, 2024 | 8:31pmHoffman said he was “horrified and saddened” over the shooting while wishing Trump a fast recovery.
Peter Thiel-backed 'Olympics on steroids' looks to raise $300M
July 5, 2024 | 3:21pmChristian Angermayer, a co-founder of the Enhanced Games, said discussions have been held with several potential investors.
A growing segment of Silicon Valley is all in on Trump: 'Very different' from backlash fears of 2016, 2020
June 26, 2024 | 6:00am“It's very different than 2016 when you were ostracized … in 2016 you would have had backlash from portfolio companies or founders [if you endorsed Trump],” said one Silicon Valley...
South Florida home lists for $26M amid a flurry of big-dollar local sales
May 23, 2024 | 5:44pmA modest 5,787-square-feet, five-bedroom waterfront home in the Venetian Islands is asking a pretty penny.
Billionaire Peter Thiel was trapped inside Cambridge University debate hall by anti-Israel protesters
May 9, 2024 | 12:41pmThiel, the 56-year-old co-founder and chairman of Palantir, was a keynote speaker at an event held at Cambridge Union in the UK.
Palantir CEO says short sellers 'love pulling down companies' to pay for their cocaine habit
March 14, 2024 | 10:27amSince Jan. 1, Palantir's share price has soared by more than 50%. It was trading at $25 a share before the opening bell on Wall Street.
Billionaire Peter Thiel bankrolling 'Olympics on steroids' event that allows athletes to dope
February 1, 2024 | 12:13pmDr. Aron D'Souza told The Post that the idea behind Enhanced Games is to allow athletes to use whatever substances they wish "out in the open."
Silicon Valley mogul to produce film about 'PayPal Mafia' led by Elon Musk, Peter Thiel
January 29, 2024 | 9:20amA former PayPal executive has bought the rights to a movie about Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman -- who led Silicon Valley's legendary "PayPal Mafia" in the days...
How 'PayPal Mafia' ousted Musk from CEO job — then saved SpaceX
September 13, 2023 | 3:43pmThe "PayPal Mafia" that ousted Elon Musk as CEO of the peer-to-peer payment company helped save his rocket-launching company SpaceX eight years later.
How tech billionaires in Hawaii are responding to Maui wildfires
August 17, 2023 | 12:05pmJeff Bezos has committed to the creation of a $100 million fund to help the island "get back on its feet," his fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, wrote.
OpenAI boss -- who warned AI poses 'risk of extinction' to humanity -- is also a 'doomsday prepper'
June 5, 2023 | 5:24pmThe OpenAI boss once reportedly admitted to having a survival stockpile that included guns, gold and antibiotics.
Billionaire Peter Thiel plans to be frozen after death for future revival, but doesn't 'necessarily expect it to work'
May 5, 2023 | 11:07amThiel spoke candidly about the life-preserving possibilities of so-called “cryonics."
Peter Thiel says DeSantis would be 'terrific president,' warns of 'woke' focus
May 4, 2023 | 12:26pmBillionaire tech investor Peter Thiel has said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis should not let "the woke issue” distract him from pressing economic questions if he runs for president this cycle.
Peter Thiel confronted Mark Zuckerberg about metaverse focus before abrupt board resignation: report
April 25, 2023 | 10:42amBillionaire tech investor Peter Thiel reportedly raised concern about Mark Zuckerberg’s obsession with the metaverse just before his abrupt resignation from Meta’s board of directors last year.
Peter Thiel risked losing $50M in SVB even as his firm sounded alarm
March 17, 2023 | 10:14amThe venture capitalist left $50 million of his own cash in doomed Silicon Valley Bank -- even though his company had raised the loudest alarm leading to its panicked shutdown...
Silicon Valley Bank meltdown sparks contagion fears: ‘We found our Enron’
March 10, 2023 | 8:49amPeter Thiel's venture capital firm Founders Firm advised clients to withdraw their deposits from the bank.
Peter Thiel's Palantir cuts around 2% of its workforce
February 27, 2023 | 1:37pmEarlier this month, Palantir had also said it expects 2023 to be the company's first profitable year as it benefits from cost cuts and the artificial intelligence boom.