#peter-thiel

#peter-thiel

For a full two years now, the billionaire has been on the circuit, spreading his biblically inflected ideas about doomsday through a set of variably and sometimes visibly perplexed interviewers. He has chatted onstage with the economist podcaster Tyler Cowen about the katechon (the scriptural term for "that which withholds" the end times); traded some very awkward on-camera silences with the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat;

In a four-part series of religious lectures in San Francisco, Peter Thiel - yes, that Peter Thiel - has argued that the End Times are night and that a biblical Antichrist - yes, that Antichrist - will come to earth in the form of onerous government regulations placed on science, technology and AI. These are, incidentally, areas where the tech billionaire, venture capitalist and founder of Palantir has a vested financial interest.

Several wealthy lucky right-wing tech bros will get to hear Peter Thiel speak tonight at SF's Commonwealth Club on the topic of the Antichrist, which is a funny thing to claim to know about when you've got all manner of Jeff Epstein connections. There is apparently an emerging evangelical Christian movement going on in wealthiest pockets of the tech industry. This stands to reason I guess, because tech wants to control the masses, and religion has always proven an excellent way to control the masses.

Trump's ousting of CDC Director Susan Monarez has led to a wave of resignations and a walkout at the agency's Atlanta facility on Thursday. Despite her firing, Monarez has refused to leave her post.

Bullish, backed by Peter Thiel, made a stellar debut, raising up to $629 million with an initial valuation of $4.2 billion, and secured an 83% surge on its IPO.

Peter Thiel made his first political contribution in two and a half years, giving $852,200 to House Speaker Mike Johnson's joint fundraising committee, with most funds going to various GOP campaigns.

"I think investors always have a bias to invest in things they themselves use and they undervalue things they don't use so there aren't many investors who are in college."

I still think we should be trying AI, and that the alternative is just total stagnation.

In 2025, I still broadly believe in the stagnation thesis. The claim was not that we were absolutely, completely stuck, but that the velocity had slowed.