Stanford University announced it will host speakers with controversial and opposing views in order to expose the campus to diverse perspectives and to foster open exchange on ... Peter Thiel, who ...

Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley investment guru who last year offered students $100,000 each to drop out for two years to test their entrepreneurial mettle, is going back to college himself — to ...

Peter Thiel launched a student newspaper 36 years ago. ... Martin dropped out of Stanford—and off the university’s track team—shortly after to start working full-time at Confinity.

Famed investor Peter Thiel is teaching a startup class in the computer science department at Stanford University.. Students in Peter Thiel's CS183 class can expect to learn about the following ...

Venture capitalist Peter Thiel has returned to teach a class at Stanford University, according to a listing spotted by Stanford graduate Andrew Granato on Twitter. Thiel is currently listed as a ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Peter Thiel, the superstar Silicon Valley investor, has famously dismissed university as a waste of time and money, and even offered students cash to drop out. But his views ...

Peter Thiel at Stanford. Photo: Courtesy the author Sometime around the spring of 1988, several members of the Stanford University chess team traveled to a tournament in Monterey, California, in ...

Peter Thiel, the billionaire cofounder of PayPal and an early Facebook investor, has a complicated relationship with higher education. On one hand, he graduated from Stanford University with a ...

Peter Thiel, the superstar Silicon Valley investor, has famously dismissed university as a waste of time and money, and even offered students cash to drop out. But his views apparently do not ...

Venture capitalist and hedge fund manager Peter Thiel just finished guest teaching a course at Stanford University, where he gets to impart his wisdom on hungry minds. Obviously we can just add ...

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has been immersed in Silicon Valley since his August 1967 birth in Palo Alto, California, in the shadow of Stanford University, where he and fellow technology ...

Peter Thiel, the billionaire cofounder of PayPal and an early Facebook investor, has a complicated relationship with higher education. On one hand, he graduated from Stanford University with a ...