Peter Thiel influenced top tech figures like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, funding early-stage companies through his venture capital firm Founders Fund.

The founder of PayPal Peter Thiel has raised some eyebrows after giving a simple question about the future of humanity.

Mr. Vance’s open admiration for Dr. Girard and his closeness to Mr. Thiel, arguably the world’s most prominent Girardian, has ...

Draw a circle around all the assets in America now devoted to Artificial Intelligence. Draw a second circle around all the assets devoted to the U.S. military. A third around all assets being devoted ...

At first it was dismissed as a crazy joke. Making the Enhanced Games a reality needed a Peter Thiel posse, a couple of ...

Inside tech's anti-college movement: "If you have to go to college, it's probably because you're mediocre." ...

First Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and David Sacks upended America’s financial-services industry with an innovative Silicon Valley startup called PayPal that rocketed to dominance as the internet took ...

Thiel, meanwhile, became the loudest voice critiquing the lack of true technological progress amidst all the hype. “Forget flying cars,” he quipped during a 2012 Stanford lecture.

Congressional candidate Blake Masters said he disagrees with Peter Thiel about “plenty," offering the example of abortion rights.

Back in 2009, the tech titan Peter Thiel laid out a sweeping vision for demolishing the government. Now he's getting what he wanted.

Peter Thiel has won. Behind the chaotic first month of the Trump administration lies a sweeping political vision laid out by Thiel, the billionaire tech investor, cofounder of PayPal, and destroyer of ...