He also wrote the book on a legendary Silicon Valley figure, The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power. Chafkin: This is an industry that was founded as defense contractors.

Obama’s close ties with Silicon Valley had brought the industry and ... That influence hasn’t been overlooked. “It’s Peter Thiel’s party now,” journalist Dave Weigel tweeted during ...

Since Donald Trump took office, more than three dozen employees, allies, and investors of Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, ...

Silicon Valley executives are accustomed to chasing ... obsolete. Image When Peter Thiel, pictured here in 2022, delivered a talk about his Christian faith at Trae Stephens’s birthday party ...

There's this narrative, promoted by people like Thiel, that Silicon Valley is super-liberal. And there are just a handful of truth-tellers, one of whom is Peter Thiel, who are fighting the good ...

Vice President J.D. Vance and Elon Musk are among Thiel's Silicon Valley collaborators that now find themselves in Trump's ...

Silicon Valley’s love of Tolkien — and fantasy and science fiction more broadly — dates to its earliest days, when rooms at ...

The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other's monsters. An excerpt from "The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and ...

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Meanwhile, Vance’s brief career in venture capital also encapsulates how a libertarian strand within Silicon Valley represented by Thiel has come ... from people like Peter and Elon because ...

Mr. Thiel was an early, lonely Silicon Valley supporter of Mr. Trump in 2016, and his party symbolized, in vivid terms, the tech industry’s new excitement for Mr. Trump. Dozens of top right-wing ...

You don’t need to do much guesswork to see why smart Christians in Silicon Valley are growing more emboldened. After all, there are billionaires among their ranks. One of them is Peter Thiel ...