Read more Peter Thiel stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/17037/peter-thiel.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:45:53 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/14500/gay-plays-well-for-maverick-vc.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn Silicon Valley, where "like funds like," Valleywag thinks it's important to note that Peter Thiel, "the smartest VC in the world, is gay." Why mention it? Thiel's Founders Fund, which just raised a $220 million financing round, could reinvent the way entrepreneurs get paid, and Valleywag attributes his contrarianism...http://www.newser.com/story/14500/gay-plays-well-for-maverick-vc.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 20 Dec 2007 12:18:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/11709/inside-the-paypal-mafia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThey may be the most brilliantly successful—or luckiest—or both—small group of entrepreneurs in history: PayPal alumni who, like founders Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, left the company to create $30 billion worth of innovation: YouTube, Facebook, Slide, Yelp, Digg, investment firms, philanthropies, solar-power companies, an electric car...http://www.newser.com/story/11709/inside-the-paypal-mafia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Nov 2007 4:55:00 CST