Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who helped create the online payment company PayPal (pypl) and was also one of the earliest investors in Facebook (fb), was revealed as the financial backer of former wrestler Hulk Hogan after Hogan won an unprecedented $ 140 - million Florida court judgement against Gawker in March. (fortune.com)
A group of former wrestlers - turned financial gurus who have worked at some of America's top financial firms have pooled their own money with charitable donors» to grant larger cash prizes to wrestlers who win Olympic medals, The New York Times reports. (fortune.com)
The title refers to five characters: Half - human pilot Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Saldana), Rocket (voiced by Cooper), an articulate behemoth named Drax (former wrestler Dave Bautista) and the inarticulate behemoth Groot (Diesel), a self - repairing human - tree hybrid with magical powers. (charlotteobserver.com)