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☆ Palantir CEO Alex Karp says he loves 'burning the short-sellers' who bet against 'great companies' to fund their cocaine habits
  + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and Ken Griffin's hedge fund Citadel are among the names who've bet against Karp's company, per MarketBeat. Karp also acknowledged in his CNBC interview that some Palantir staff had left due to its vocal support for Israel. Disclosure: Palantir Technologies CEO Alexander Karp is a member of Axel Springer's shareholder committee.
Persons: —, Palantir, CNBC's, Alex Karp, who'd, Karp, Goldman Sachs, Ken Griffin's, We've, it's, Peter Thiel —, Alexander Karp, Axel Springer's, Axel Springer Organizations: Service, Business, US Army, Refinitiv, Barclays, Citadel, CNBC, Israel, Hamas, Palantir, Insider Inc Locations: Tel Aviv, Israel
☆ Elon Musk invested in Deep Mind after its founder told him that AI could destroy human colonies on Mars: NYT
  + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Elon Musk once told DeepMind's Demis Hassabis about his plans to colonize Mars, per NYT. But Musk was left dumbfounded after Hassabis said that AI might destroy his colonies on Mars. Hassabis told Musk that the plan would work if artificial intelligence didn't make the trip to Mars. According to Hassabis, AI being in the mix would lead to the human colony's destruction, too. In March, Musk told a Tesla shareholder during the company's investor day that he was "a little worried about AI stuff."
Persons: Elon Musk, DeepMind's, Musk, Hassabis, —, Demis Hassabis, he'd, Peter Thiel —, OpenAI's, DeepMind Organizations: Service, Elon, The New York Times, The Times, SpaceX, Google, Musk, Business Insider Locations: Mars, DeepMind
☆ This 24-year-old wants to freeze dead pets with the hope that science can one day bring them back to life – and he's got backing from Peter Thiel to get started
  + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Kai Micah Mills is a rare cryonics entrepreneur in the latest batch of Thiel Fellows. His startup Cryopets aims to establish a chain of animal hospitals set up to freeze pets upon death. When he was 14, Kai Micah Mills brought home a long-haired tabby cat and named it Cat. Someday, he hopes to expand to human preservation, as the science matures and pet owners warm to the idea. Mills hasn't figured out a pricing structure yet, but says pet owners will make a payment that covers their pet's storage for as long as necessary.
☆ Meet Blake Resnick, a 23-year-old college dropout who went on to win a Peter Thiel-backed fellowship, supplies drones to Ukraine, and is now worth over $100 million
  + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Blake Resnick, the founder and CEO of Brinc Drones, is now worth $100 million, per Bloomberg. After the shooting, he cold-called the lieutenant in charge of the Las Vegas SWAT team to ask about technology that could've helped the police identify and stop an active shooter. Born in Las Vegas to a doctor and a special education teacher, Resnick's adventures with science began early on in his childhood. At 14, he built a nuclear fusion reaction in his parent's garage in Las Vegas, according to a bio on his website. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Resnick features among the Forbes 30 under 30 list of achievers in the age group in 2021 and 2022.
☆ Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn cofounder, said he talks to his friend Peter Thiel less to avoid political discussion and feuding over Donald Trump
  + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Reid Hoffman said he talks to his friend Peter Thiel less now on an episode of "On with Kara Swisher." Hoffman wants to avoid arguing with Thiel over former President Donald Trump. When Swisher asked Hoffman if Thiel hears him, Hoffman said, "I don't know." When they met as sophomores at Stanford in the mid-1990s, Hoffman heard Thiel was a "libertarian wacko," while Thiel was told Hoffman was a "pinko commie," Hoffman said on his podcast "Masters of Scale." Hoffman told Swisher he will "spend as much as I possibly can" to avoid another Trump presidency, saying it would be "destructive to our society."
☆ Elon Musk and Peter Thiel were both Silicon Valley outsiders until they joined forces to form PayPal. A new book reveals details of their tumultuous rise to the top.
  + stars: | 2022-02-23 | by ( Jonathan A. Knee | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
It is these stark differences in approach to business, management, and culture that make the story so engrossing. Thanks to a 2007 Fortune magazine cover story complete with a Godfather-esque photo, the "PayPal Mafia" have taken on unjustified mythic status in Silicon Valley. The Founders provides the tools needed to develop a more balanced view of Silicon Valley and its larger-than-life personalities. It also suggests which aspects of that era of Silicon Valley culture are worth preserving — or maybe even rediscovering. His most recent book is "The Platform Delusion: Who Wins and Who Loses in the Age of Tech Titans."
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