Peter Thiel


The real reason Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos are supporting Trump.


What Peter Thiel gets wrong about existential risk.

Inside Elon’s war room.


Thiel played a key role at the company as an early investor and adviser to Mark Zuckerberg.


The billionaire investor is putting $10 million behind the author of Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance.


How Palantir and Peter Thiel might lead the biggest tech IPO of the year.


A Silicon Valley outsider has spent almost $1 million to reshape a US Senate race in America’s heartland.


Mithril Capital raised over $1 billion on the name of Thiel, one of Silicon Valley’s biggest celebrities. Now federal investigators are looking under the hood.


Even though they “want to see themselves as gods,” most tech leaders aren’t doing anything about climate change. Why?


“Aging is not a disease, otherwise living would be a disease, but you can’t make money off satisfaction,” Applewhite says.


More turnover in the upper ranks of an industry that has had a ton recently.

A dozen former employees, investors in the fund, and other people close to the matter describe an investment firm in disarray.


Rabois talked with Recode’s Kara Swisher about startups, innovation, Facebook, President Trump, and more on a recent Recode Decode.


The spotlight has been on Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. But Facebook’s board is MIA.


Thiel is giving $1 million to the Club for Growth, a hardline conservative advocacy group.


The colorful White House communications director is still a supporter of President Trump, even though he was fired after 11 days on the job.


“I thought supporting Trump was one of the least contrarian things I ever did.”


Noam Cohen, author of “The Know-It-Alls,” thinks so, and explains why on the latest Recode Decode.

Thiel is No. 50 on the Recode 100.


It always comes back to emails.


A new documentary called “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press” links the Thiel-funded Hulk Hogan lawsuit to the present day.


Vance is joining Steve Case’s VC firm after the two met on Twitter.


Muslim ban today, gay rights tomorrow, encryption after that — techies are going to have to get used to a very political atmosphere fast.


Death (and life) comes for the entrepreneur and Silicon Valley.


Donald Trump went as himself.


Today, we struggle to rationalize Thiel’s power and influence as he moves further and further out there.


It’s his call, guys.


He really doesn’t like Hillary Clinton.


He’s a Trump superfan, alright.




The eccentric investor is not like anyone else in tech.


The Facebook board member will speak on the same night as Trump and former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow.
“Seek revenge and you should dig two graves — one for yourself.”


The billionaire paid lawyers to find plaintiffs for him to support.