This fall, Peter Thiel will have fun his 54th birthday. He has already lived extra lives than most mortals can think about. He has been a Wall Avenue lawyer, a hedge-fund dealer, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and a fabulously profitable enterprise capitalist. The group he led at PayPal, the online-payments firm he co-founded in 1998, is so influential within the Valley that its alumni are often called the “PayPal Mafia.” Zero to One, his provocative 2014 manifesto on innovation and start-ups, has offered greater than 3 million copies globally. He was essentially the most outstanding tech titan to again Donald Trump in 2016 and stays a lavish supporter of Trumpish Senate candidates. Formidable to keep away from loss of life, or no less than postpone it, he has flirted with concepts for freezing brains for future reanimation and for transfusing the middle-aged with the blood of the younger.
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