An Etsy marketplace is set up in Times Square outside the NASDAQ to commemorate the Etsy initial … [+] public offering which debuted to the public on Thursday, April 16, 2015. Shares of Etsy dro...
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Many ‘Shocked’ Critics Forget That He Was Supposed to Fail
A recent opinion piece by the Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley led with the question/title “Where Was Biden’s SEC Sheriff on Sam Bankman-Fried?” At risk of speaking for Finley, isn’t it safe to sa...
Analyzing Founders Fund’s Crypto Portfolio
November 30, 2022, 4:14PM EST • 6 min read Quick Take Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek, Sean Parker, and Ken Howery Founders Fund ...
Trump Backed Blake Masters Wins Arizona GOP Nomination For Senate
Topline Blake Masters will be the Republican nominee in Arizona’s Senate race this year, the Associated Press projected early on Wednesday morning, after the former venture capitalist secured a key en...
Peter Thiel Pumps Bitcoin, Calls Warren Buffett A ‘Sociopathic Grandpa’
Peter Thiel visits “Fox & Friends” at Fox News Channel Studios on Aug. 9, 2019, in New York City. Getty Images Peter Thiel, the lightning-rod venture capitalist, offered up what he cal...
Jimmy Soni’s Spellbinding and Essential Story of How PayPal Came to Be
Every so often Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane reminisces about the early days of libertarianism, and in particular the make-up of the movement as gatherings began taking place. Though the lover of...
A Promised VC Partner Job Vanishes, Leading To $10 Million In Lost Income And Expenses, According To High-Profile Lawsuit
Investor Stacy Chang claims promises made to her by Thrasio cofounder and CEO Carlos Cashman to serve as a partner in a new venture capital firm failed to materialize after she quit her job as chief o...
Peter Thiel-Backed Philippine Fintech Startup Raises $31 Million, Aims To Be A One-Stop Shop For Southeast Asia’s Financial Needs
(From left) PayMongo’s CTO Jaime Hing III, CEO Francis Plaza and CCO Luis Sia. COURTESY OF PayMongo Manila-based fintech startup PayMongo—backed by the likes of PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, pay...
Inside Peter Thiel’s Life After Facebook
Peter Thiel, Partner, Founders Fund, speaks at the New York Times DealBook conference on November 1, 2018 in New York City. Getty Images Come May, Peter Thiel plans to leave a post he has held for 18 ...
Fueled By Billionaire Dollars, Nuclear Fusion Enters A New Age
Inside the ‘Tokamak’ fusion reactor under construction at the ITER fusion project in France, Sept. 2021. ASSOCIATED PRESS Having raised more than $3 billion in 2021 from the likes of Bill...