Showing posts with label Peter Thiel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peter Thiel. Show all posts

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Battery Startup Stem Just Raised Money from Peter Thiel"s Mithril

Peter Thiel: being contrarian & right, AI, Elon, drug reform, overrated trends & wealth polarization While billionaire investor Peter Thiel has been grabbing headlines for his reported support of Hulk Hogans lawsuit against Gawker (as well as his backing of Donald Trump), one of his investment firms has shown interest in something thats a lot less contrarian: batteries.On Wednesday, battery startup Stem announced...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Peter Thiel is a Trump delegate

Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, the State of Our Technology, and Artificial Intelligence Another surprise from the endlessly surprising US election cycle: billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel has beennamedas one of Donald Trump"s delegates in California.Thiel co-founded PayPal with Elon Musk, and was the first outside investor in Facebook. Locally, he"s bought stakes in Xero and Vend. Along the way, he"s racked up around...
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Battery Startup Stem Just Raised Money from Peter Thiel"s Mithril

Peter Thiel: successful businesses are based on secrets While billionaire investor Peter Thiel has been grabbing headlines for his reported support of Hulk Hogans lawsuit against Gawker (as well as his backing of Donald Trump), one of his investment firms has shown interest in something thats a lot less contrarian: batteries.On Wednesday, battery startup Stem announced that its raised a new round of $15 million, led by...
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