Peter Thiel recently generated headlines with his rambling diatribes about the Antichrist. Thiel’s lurid, apocalyptic view of world politics may be ludicrous or even deranged, but his wealth and power ...

Palmer Luckey is launching a new digital bank with backing from Peter Thiel. Erebor takes its name from The Lord of the Rings. It’s the latest in several businesses associated with the two that pay ...

Experts tell the stories of entrepreneurs and executives who have inched closer and closer to their governments. By Max Chafkin Max Chafkin is a senior reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek and the ...

Thiel co-founded software company Confinity with Max Levchin and Luke Nosek. The company would later merge with Elon Musk's X.com and become PayPal. Prior to the company's merger and eventual IPO ...

Peter Thiel has amassed a net worth of over $15 billion. The self-proclaimed contrarian is one of the most prominent figures in the technology industry. Beyond co-finding PayPal and Palantir ...

He is obsessed with atoms. Peter Thiel, a prescient venture capitalist, has said that the Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bomb, epitomised how America’s government used to “get ...