Peter Thiel. Peter Andreas Thiel (born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager.
Thiel cofounded PayPal with Max Levchin and Elon Musk and served as its CEO. He also co-founded Palantir, of which he is chairman. He serves as president of Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund with $700 million in assets under management; a managing partner in Founders Fund, a venture capital fund with $2 billion in assets under management; co-founder and investment committee chair of Mithril Capital Management; and co-founder and chairman of Valar Ventures.[4][5][6] He was the first outside investor in Facebook, the popular social-networking site, with a 10.2% stake acquired in 2004 for $500,000, and sits on the company's board of directors.
Thiel was ranked #293 on the Forbes 400 in 2011, with a net worth of $1.5 billion as of March 2012.[2] He was ranked #4 on the Forbes Midas List of 2014 at $2.2 billion.[7] Thiel lives in San Francisco, California.[8] Palantir Technologies. Palantir Technologies, Inc. is an American computer software and services company, specializing in data analysis.
Palantir's original clients were federal agencies of the United States Intelligence Community. It has since expanded its customer base to serve state and local governments as well as private companies in the financial and healthcare industries. History[edit] Palantir developed its technology by computer scientists and analysts from intelligence agencies over three years, through pilots facilitated by In-Q-Tel.[11] The software concept grew out of technology developed at PayPal to detect fraudulent activity, much of it conducted by Russian organized crime syndicates.[5] The company said computers alone using artificial intelligence could not defeat an adaptive adversary.
Palantir proposed using human analysts to explore data from many sources, called intelligence augmentation.[12] Products[edit] Palantir Gotham[edit] Palantir Metropolis[edit] Customers[edit] Infowar Monitor[edit] Secretive Startup Palantir Is Now Worth ~$8 Billion, According To Cofounder. How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut. Is 'Shadow' the creepiest startup ever? No, CIA investment Palantir still owns that crown. A palantir, as originally envisaged Shadow.
It’s the kind of name Jonathan Franzen would give to a startup in a heavy-handed satire on the internet culture he so thoroughly misunderstands. In fact, it could have been ripped straight out of Dave Eggers’ new novel, The Circle, which kicks out at Google, Facebook and the over-sharing culture that has young people by the throat. And yet, Shadow is nowhere near as creepy as the name suggests or an article headlined “Is Shadow the most sinister startup ever?” Tries to claim. Shadow doesn’t even come close to challenging the reigning champion of creepy startups: Palantir Technologies. Palantir’s technology springs out of concepts developed by Thiel’s first big success, PayPal, which were design to identify fraudulent activity.
Outsourced Intelligence: How the FBI and CIA Use Private Contractors to Monitor Social Media. (Photo: Resident on Earth / Flickr)Right now, companies like Palantir Technologies Inc, Booz Allen Hamilton, and i2 are mining your Facebook and Twitter data in an effort to discern whether you're a terrorist, have ties to terrorists or maybe just have the potential to someday become one.
They also want to know if you have links to the Boston bombers, Kim Jong-un or Darth Vader, and they've been paid millions upon millions of dollars to do this on behalf of the US Special Operations Command, FBI, CIA, DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), the Army, Marines and the Air Force. Initially a small start-up conveniently funded in part the CIA's nonprofit venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, Palantir Technologies is now the leading embodiment of online Big Brother. Also See: Part II - Security Wars: Inside the Military's Big, Messy Fight With Palantir, the Company They Pay to Spy on You Online If you thought that the FBI and CIA were the only ones watching you online, think again. Conclusion. Let's All Just Believe What This Shifty CIA-Funded Data-Collecting Company Says. The Clinton Administration. Much has been written about the use of the War on Drugs to intentionally disenfranchise poor people and engineer the centralization of political and economic power in the U.S. and globally, including an explosive rise in the U.S. prison population.
The purpose of this story is not to repeat this fundamentally sound thesis. For those who are interested in more on this topic, I would refer you to my article and audio seminar “Narco Dollars for Beginners” as well as Michael Woodiwiss’ book Organized Crime and American Power (University of Toronto Press, 2001) and their associated bibliographies.[49] What most people miss is the extent to which the day-to-day implementation of this intentional centralism is deeply pervasive and therefore deeply bipartisan. Confused Protesters Disrupt Dialogue Between Peter Thiel and UC Berkeley Students. By Susan Kruth December 11, 2014 Last night, entrepreneur and libertarian Peter Thiel was taking questions from students gathered to hear him speak at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) when scores of protesters broke into the venue and shouted Thiel down, halting the event.
The Berkeley Forum, the student organization that hosted the event, later criticized the protesters for depriving Thiel and audience members of the opportunity to “engage in productive discussion.” The incident is yet another deplorable example of the all-too-common “heckler’s veto,” which occurs when people opposed to someone’s viewpoint or expression silence the would-be speaker by creating such a commotion that the speaker is forced to step down. The Berkeley Forum, which describes itself as “non-partisan organization that invites guest speakers who span a variety of viewpoints and perspectives,” wrote in its statement: FIRE hopes that those involved in the protest heed this important reminder.
Silicon Valley protecting yourPrivacy? ; "the_conspiracy" _Crypto Tools. Basic Income and Innovation - David Graeber.