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Peter Thiel, the famous PayPal founder, hedge fund manager and angel investor, has a minor tendency to put money into outlandish concepts. The early Facebook investor is the leading contributor to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, an organization dedicated to advancing humanity through the creation of a super-intelligent but friendly AI.

Peter Thiel (photo via VentureBeat.) He’s number 377 today. Next year, we’re betting at least 250.  We’re referring to Peter Thiel’s ranking on the Forbes 400 Richest People in America list.  You have to be worth at least $1.3 billion to make it, and 40-year old, part-time San Franciscan Peter Thiel just squeezed by with that number.

words and pictures by Brian Solis BusinessWeek released its report on the 25 most influential people on the Web today as determined by the magazine’s staff. Congratulations to our friends as well as those we have yet to meet in person for making this prestigious list.

Max Levchin asks please don't post photos of his wedding to Slide Slide founder Max Levchin made longtime lover Nellie Minkova an honest woman on Saturday. The ceremony was held at San Francisco's St. Regis Hotel, and featured Hot or Not cofounder James Hong as best man, with fellow PayPal mafioso Peter Thiel another groomsman.

At the TechCrunch 50 conference Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley uber investor was quoted as saying that there is a ceiling in terms of CEO salary for a startup, beyond which you begin to “have issues”. For a more general take on CEO salaries (not tech specific) check out this article.

At the TechCrunch 50 conference Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley uber investor was quoted as saying that there is a ceiling in terms of CEO salary for a startup, beyond which you begin to “have issues”. For a more general take on CEO salaries (not tech specific) check out this article.

Clarium Capital ManagementClarium Capital | Peter Thiel Holdings AnalysisThis post is being written as part of my Investment Securities Tool which analyzes the holdings of hedge fund managers.Clarium is a $6 billion global macro hedge fund run by Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal.

"Buy land. They've stopped making it." Mark Twain Here's an interesting diversion. If all the news about the current turmoil in financial markets is getting you down, perhaps you might consider really getting away from it all and going and living out at sea. The idea might not be as far removed from reality as we might think.

"Buy land. They've stopped making it." Mark Twain Here's an interesting diversion. If all the news about the current turmoil in financial markets is getting you down, perhaps you might consider really getting away from it all and going and living out at sea. The idea might not be as far removed from reality as we might think.

While a CNN reporter talked about the Lehman Brothers collapse, two guys started making out behind him and licking each other’s bodys. CNN gets no respect. The Lehman Brothers collapse is yet another example of greed on Wall Street, which is yet another reason not to put money into the slot machine called the stock market.