By Armelle Vincent
Posted yesterday at 7:09 PM, updated yesterday at 11:09 PM
Peter Thiel in Miami in April. Rebecca Blackwell/AP
PORTRAIT – The investor wants America to embrace its uber-libertarian ideology, free-market ideals, and desire to let go of technology entirely for man’s future and salvation.
In Los Angeles
In an interview with American magazine The New Yorker, venture capitalist and billionaire Peter Thiel said he hates politics: “At best, it’s pretty bad, and at worst, it’s terrible. I think it would be good to have a less politicized world.” Who would have thought then, at the time of this statement, that many years later the personality, if not the richest (his fortune is estimated at $4.2 billion to $10 billion), the most controversial in Silicon Valley, would throw himself headlong, wallet in hand, into the election campaign? First, the presidential elections of libertarian Ron Paul in 2008 and 2012, then Donald Trump’s in 2016, and more recently the November 8 midterm elections.
Determined to transform his adopted country from the ground up – he was born in Germany and grew up partly in South Africa – Peter Thiel has just invested $30 million in…
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