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Wealth quote of the day by Peter Thiel, “Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.” From PayPal to Palantir: How Thiel’s theory of making money puts bravery over brainsWealth quote of the day by Peter Thiel, “Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.” In American financ...- With Donald Trump win, Silicon Valley's right flank takes on WashingtonPresident Trump's second administration places a strong emphasis on technology, involving influential tech figures such as David Sacks, Pet...
- Elon Musk leads Silicon Valley rally behind Donald TrumpElon Musk's decision to throw his vast fortune behind Donald Trump's presidential candidacy confirms the rise of a growing right-wing bloc ...
- Led by Elon Musk, Silicon Valley inches to the rightLong considered non-identifiable ideologically, Musk's politics are now hardline right-wing as he uses his platform (now called X) to stoke...
- Jack Dorsey, Peter Thiel said to be behind Elon Musk's Twitter takeover: WSJ reportBoth Musk and Dorsey believed that Twitter would be better off as a privately held company, according to former Twitter executives. They al...
- India CEO mafia: Techies with a social heartSome are beginning to call it the ‘India Mafia’, like the PayPal Mafia. The latter was used to describe the many former PayPal employees an...
- Facebook readies secretive blockchain currency for India with ex-PayPal recruitsThe blockchain group is developing a stablecoin, a type of digital currency pegged to the US dollar or a basket of currencies, making it le...
- Innovative ideas will continue to get funded even as entrepreneurs hunker down to seek out paths to profitsSome of the valuation exuberance in the past moved the focus away from value differentiation and demonstrating sustainable business metrics...
- The Trump Presidency: Peter Thiel's biggest winSacca, along with Mark Cuban, were amongst the most strident supporters of Hillary Clinton. It is also fair to assume that Thiel will not f...
- ClearTax raises $2 million from FF Angel and Sequoia Capital“We have taken the long route, and now we are extremely excited to have some of the biggest thought leaders and investors on board as our p...
- ClearTax raises Rs 8.6 crore seed funding from Silicon Valley investorsClearTax has raised $1.3 million in seed funding from a group of prominent Silicon Valley investors, a list that includes PayPal cofounder ...
- Ex-execs from Sun Microsystems are driving a revolution in startup world of both India & Silicon ValleyThe former Sun engineers are middle-aged, primarily working on enterprise software and, hence, barely in the limelight.
- Life lessons every man can learn from Elon MuskElon Musk is reimagining the world with his evolutionary businesses & projects. Now you seek to learn the tricks of the trade from his succ...
- How Indian startups motivating its employees to start their own venturesAt least 200 new ventures have been founded by employees of Indian startups as of this month, estimates research firm Tracxn!.
- E-commerce entrepreneurs turn to angel investing, ploughing personal wealth into startupsTOI first wrote about the trend in June last year, highlighting how these new-gen internet entrepreneurs are investing capital and offering...
- Meet the PayPal mafia, the richest group of men in Silicon ValleyThe company founded by Peter Thiel, Elon Musk has spawned three billionaires, many, many millionaires, and generation-defining companies.
- Mobile ad firm InMobi spawns 40 startups ranging from tech, crowdsourcing to health managementInMobi goes as far as to offer paid sabbaticals to employees to test their ideas and sometimes the founders even invest in some of the vent...
- Facebook director Peter Thiel stock sale tops $1 billion as lock-up time endsThiel, a venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager, had already generated $640.1 million in sales during the initial public offering.
- Facebook director Peter Thiel gets more flexibility to sell sharesThiel, who sold more than 16 mn shares in the company’s IPO, has given himself added flexibility to sell more of his holdings.
- Facebook’s early employees give up stable jobsFacebook, the most successful start-up of the last decade, is only six years old, and an initial public offering is still a way off.
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