It was the first Sunday of 2025 and Epic Church, in downtown San Francisco, was jammed. Mr. Stephens went downstairs to drop ...

JD Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate, has had a long, collaborative relationship with GOP donor and Silicon ...

As a co-founder of PayPal and the first outside investor in Facebook, Peter Thiel is widely recognized ... that you add 10% to the population in a city, and maybe the house prices go up 50% ...

And there are just a handful of truth-tellers, one of whom is Peter Thiel, who are fighting the good fight against this super-lefty industry in San Francisco — the most liberal city in the most ...

Like the Valar in the J.R.R. Tolkien books he loves so much—he’s named six companies with terms drawn from the fantasy novels—Thiel is mysterious, powerful, and a little incomprehensible.

If you’re talking about the long decline of the liberal order, and the post-democratic drift of capitalism, you’re inevitably talking, on some level, about Peter Thiel. Last week, in a ...

Peter Thiel appeared ... in the middle of the city—and this was 1957, it was sort of a crazy thing, and it’s disturbingly more true today.” For a long time, Thiel’s venture firm had ...

The party symbolized the euphoria of the tech industry on the cusp of the Trump presidency. The guest list included Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Miriam Adelson and the vice president-elect, JD Vance.

Nearly a decade ago, billionaire Peter Thiel cofounded a nonprofit called Seasteading Institute, and contributed seed funding toward what could become the world's first floating city. By 2020 ...

"Floating islands solve two of the biggest problems in the world: Sea level change and the lack of start-up innovation in governance," Quirk said. If the Institute manages to gain government ...