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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Peter Andreas Thiel (born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. As of July 2024, Thiel had an estimated net worth of US$11.2 billion and was ranked 212th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Huh I never knew anything about him except he supported stuff to make society worse and was a billionaire, yeah I repeat myself. I thought he'd be older like a Koch for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The only reason I knew he was younger is cause I knew he was pissing around in the early internet days.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine being worth 11 Billion (that we know of) and only being 212th on the billionaires list.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

This is fucked beyond end.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I say it every time, I am astounded the Tolkien estate allowed the use of the word Palantir...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

What makes you think they did?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If the Tolkien estate has a trademark on that word it doesn’t stop a company in an entirely different field to name their company that word. Owning a trademark doesn’t mean you own all the usage rights of that word. You only have the rights in a specific category.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

So, if an arms manufacturer creates a functional Iron Man suit, is nothing stopping them from calling it Iron Man? I assume they wouldn't be allowed to make it look exactly like the Marvel character, but comic books and the MIC are certainly in different fields...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Id probably be drunk too