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| Subject: Anarcho-Capitalist NEWS: 13 Quotes That Show Why Libertarian Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Is NOT A Scary Genius Sat Feb 01, 2014 5:20 am | |
| It isn’t easy to pin-point exactly what Peter Thiel is most famous for. His interests range from the mundane (online payments) to the fringes of scientific thought (immortality and floating cities).
He’s a libertarian. But he has also funded the secretive data-mining company Palantir, which works for the FBI and the CIA.
He co-founded PayPal and acted as its CEO before the company sold to eBay for $US1.5 billion in 2002. Since then he launched the global hedge-fund Clarium Capital and the Founders Fund, a venture capital firm. He was Facebook’s first outside investor, making him a billionaire when the company went public. He supports the Methuselah Foundation, whose goal is to reverse human ageing, and the SeaSteading Institute, a libertarian group founded to create independent floating cities in international waters. He’s also launched the controversial “20 Under 20” initiative which gives 20 teens $US100,000 to drop out of college for two years to pursue their own tech projects. He is one of the most original, controversial thinkers in tech today. On living: 'Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. Extinction is approaching. Fight it.'
More: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/peter-thiel-quotes-2014-1 |
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