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more about #valleywag more comments → Shadowlayer: First one to send me a book with his/her tweet farts gets a bullet between the eyes... Kidding, you'll get a golf ball (NRA took my gun, said I was "... more » Shadowlayer: BTW, Chow if you're reading this, your book is on teh torrentz now more » Shadowlayer: How did mr.assclown get 10M in VC monies? more » badasscat: And yet still, up until last week Wikipedia listed the wrong actor as Captain Steubing on The Love Boat! (Seriously!) more » raincoaster: Sucker. Bullshit. Down the toilet. more » raincoaster: You're kidding yourself if you think most people can be interesting for more than 140 characters at a time. more » MincnglyWhrdL'mer: lol. more » MessiahsHandle: Oh no! He didn't "Mount Kilauea" or "Scale Diamond Head" did he? I seriously hope he's not stuck his penis in the pu pu platter cause aside for the od... more » MessiahsHandle: I suggest Doa. Can't we take Aol to Switzerland to put it out of its misery...legally? more » shostakobitch: but what does denton think about this? more » PandoraSpocks: Palin Newsom 2012. Their slogan: We're totlly clueless but look great on TV. more » Sir Thomas More: They might as well have gone all the way and changed it into Lol. more » naugahydeinplainsight: This is the one that scared me. Brought back memories of waiting so long for pages to load it felt like my head was about to explode. Thanks for brin... more » Motoko Kusanagi: That newscast seems appropriately shit for SF. more » son of spam: Aol. Rhymes with A-hole. more » -
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Peter Thiel —
the PayPal co-founder and artificial intelligence enthusiast, explaining to Business Insider that Luddites may well be the first up against the wall when the robot revolution comes. The new order "could be very good, it could be very bad." -
#therich
A Tech Idol's Comedown
Remember how brightly Peter Thiel's star was shining just last year? The PayPal co-founder's early Facebook investment started looking brilliant, his hedge fund returns were stellar and he debuted on the Forbes 400 list. My, how things change. More » -
#privateequity
Peter Thiel: Too Dignified For Hedge Funds
Peter Thiel is not a clown. The PayPal co-founder and Facebook investor sees right through bubbles and rampant, ongoing Wall Street fraud, or at least says he does. So why is he running a hedge fund, again? More » -
#peterthiel
ACORN-Buster's Secret Conservative Sugar Daddy
So much for James O'Keefe as the scrappy, independent sparkplug of conservative media. The 25-year-old, who famously embarrassed ACORN on YouTube, got a five-figure sum that traces back to at least one rich conservative, well known to Silicon Valley. More » -
#rumormonger
Peter Thiel's Rough Summer
The S&P 500 is up slightly since the start of June, rising one percent, but we're told Peter Thiel's Clarium Capital is having a much worse time. In fact, the Pay Pal co-founder should avoid thinking about work this weekend. More » -
#spacecadet
Elon Musk Wants Another Obama Bailout
Elon Musk is becoming a welfare case. Federal auto-industry loans helped save his electric-car company, Tesla. Now Musk wants another federal bailout for his embarrassing space startup. And he may well get it. More » -
#businessmodels
How Crowdsourced Porn Failed
Zivity, the much-ballyhooed site where you can buy pictures from amateur models, is stripping itself of most assets and employees. Appropriate, in a way, but if amateur moviemaking and journalism can work, why not user-generated porn? Some clues: More » -
#privateequity
The Quick Gutting of Peter Thiel's Clarium Capital
The June numbers are in, and Peter Thiel's hedge fund is looking puny, having shrunk to just $1.5 billion in assets, from $7.8 billion in June 2008. Placed in an historical context, the PayPal co-founder's fund looks even worse. More » -
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#politics
Facebook Backer Peter Thiel Wants You to Know Environmentalism Will Kill Us All
Peter Thiel's objectivism and anti-immigration donations were hard enough for Silicon Valley colleagues to stomach. This attack ad he helped fund against climate-change legislation should be even less popular among California's Tesla-driving, cleantech-obsessed venture capitalists. More » -
#privateequity
Peter Thiel's Depressing May
Even as Wall Street rallied last month, Peter Thiel's hedge fund lost close to $25 million, according to leaked documents obtained by Valleywag. Maybe this is why the PayPal founder has been grumpily calling people "frauds." More » -
#neverforget
Peter Thiel: 'Valleywag is the Silicon Valley Equivalent of Al Qaeda'
Peter Thiel, the Facebook investor and PayPal co-founder, has never been shy about making incendiary statements. Now he's turned his guns on us.
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#housekeeping
Valleywag: An Instruction Manual
Dear Ryan:
As I head to NBC to run its Bay Area site, I'm leaving you one Silicon Valley gossip blog, used but in good condition. A few thoughts on how to keep it that way. More » -
#schadenfreude
Peter Thiel's Richer Than You, But Not as Rich as He'd Like You to Think
It's one of many casually accepted, unchecked assumptions in Silicon Valley: Peter Thiel, the cofounder of PayPal and Facebook investor, is a billionaire, right? Leaked documents from his hedge fund, Clarium Capital, show he's not. More » -
#principles
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Taxpayer Money
Clever libertarians don't just rail against government spending: They do something about it. Facebook investor Peter Thiel took $8 million from New York's pension fund — while setting himself up to avoid millions in taxes. More » -
#nerdfight
Rachel Maddow, Peter Thiel Show Why Gays and Lesbians Can't Get Along
What a fight! In one corner, Rhodes scholar Rachel Maddow, the liberal lesbian MSNBC commentator. In the other, arch libertarian chess master Peter Thiel, the gay Facebook investor. Best of all, they've squared off before. More »
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#siliconvalleytool
Facebook Backer Wishes Women Couldn't Vote
Peter Thiel, foremost among Silicon Valley's loopy libertarians and the first outside investor in Facebook, has written an essay declaring that the country went to hell as soon as women won the right to vote.
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#schadenfreude
The Peter Thiel Bubble
Peter Thiel, so-called visionary, is working CNBC hard at Davos. Why would that be the case? His hedge fund is $5 billion smaller than it was six months ago. More »
