#peter-thiel

#peter-thiel

Bullish, backed by Peter Thiel, made a stellar debut, raising up to $629 million with an initial valuation of $4.2 billion, and secured an 83% surge on its IPO.

Peter Thiel made his first political contribution in two and a half years, giving $852,200 to House Speaker Mike Johnson's joint fundraising committee, with most funds going to various GOP campaigns.

"I think investors always have a bias to invest in things they themselves use and they undervalue things they don't use so there aren't many investors who are in college."

I still think we should be trying AI, and that the alternative is just total stagnation.

In 2025, I still broadly believe in the stagnation thesis. The claim was not that we were absolutely, completely stuck, but that the velocity had slowed.