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Tech investor Tim Draper, whose...

«If Bitcoin ends up being the cyber equivalent of gold, it has a great potential left,» billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel said to CNN.

The Kushner brothers have counted the Russian billionaire tech investor Yuri Milner and the Chinese billionaire founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, as investors in another endeavor — Cadre, a tech - savvy real estate investment company they started with a friend.

In another report, The Times showed how an employee at Palantir Technologies — an intelligence contractor founded by the Trump backer and tech investor Peter Thiel — helped Cambridge harvest Facebook data.

Medici Ventures, a major blockchain tech investor, completed its strategic investment in Symbiont.

For those of you who don't know Naspers, it's about a $ 60bn US billion dollar market care public company, probably the most prolific emerging market tech investor in the world.

Tech investor Peter Thiel recently spoke at the Economic Club of New York, sharing his thoughts on why he is more confident in Bitcoin and shunning the current hype around blockchain technology.

The veteran tech investor told CNN Tech the goal of the organization is to «empower people who are concerned about the dark side of technology.»

«This team developed a product that solves a very technologically complex problem in about 18 months,» said Dayna Grayson, a tech investor with NEA.

The company said it had orders for 160 megawatts» worth of solar cells and has signed deals with a Mexican developer, Sol Pacifico, and Solar Enertech, a Chinese module maker backed by the green - tech investor David Gelbaum.

Tech Investor News The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) estimates that the cumulative installed wind power capacity could be more than 800GW globally by 2021.

A Columbia professor and clean tech entrepreneur talks with his son, a clean tech investor, about generational differences in their attitudes toward climate change and radical solutions to the world's most pressing problem.

The entrepreneur and tech investor was recently quoted saying that all physical retail stores will die, succumbing eventually to the vast sea of online competition.

Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin will become so valuable and widespread that all money transfers are going to be free, according to a top tech investor...

The tech investor may request that the new business undertake some prior - art searches on key proposed patent concepts as part of the due diligence process, making sure that the same (or very similar) concept has not already been patented by someone else.

The credit (or blame) for all of this change will rest on the shoulders of Michael Ferro, the tech investor with a longstanding side interest in newspapers who shocked the Chicago media elite when he bought a 16.6 % stake in the company and, as I reported, quickly began to exercise the power his attendant position (despite the title of non-executive chairman) gave him.

In the cleantech sector, he has served on several industry boards, including the American Council on Renewable Energy and the Cleantech Venture Network (Past Chairman of Advisory Board), and has been the Chairman of the Clean - Tech Investor Summit in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Cameron comes to Trinity as a skilled clinician, professor, entrepreneur and health tech investor.

«Ninety - nine percent of ICOs are a scam, so [China's pause on ICOs] is needed to filter the crooks out,» tech investor Chamath Palihapitiya tweeted this month.

Imagine all the songs that would have to be rewritten if tech investor Tim Draper gets his way and splits California into six pieces.

Apple is a great company, but don't confuse a great company with a great stock, says tech investor Dan Niles.

Thirty miles south of Uber's headquarters, for example, Facebook employees have voiced frustration that Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and adviser to Mr. Trump, still has a seat on the social network's board.

In another report, The Times showed how an employee at Palantir Technologies — an intelligence contractor founded by the Trump backer and tech investor Peter Thiel — helped Cambridge harvest Facebook data.

Commanding the Tribune completes a long quest for Ferro, who has built his standing in Chicago as a tech investor year by year.

Tech investor Cathie Wood shared her views on the impact disruptive innovations such as bitcoin and Tesla are having on the markets.

Fred Wilson, tech investor and founder of Union Square Ventures, wrote on his blog in June that he is «bullish» on cryptocurrency, but he says the space is very risky.

At utility player, Christine Day of Lululemon (lulu) and Reid Hoffman, tech investor, battled for expert votes.

Gideon Yu is president and co-owner of the San Francisco 49ers and a tech investor who has played an important financial role at several notable tech companies: He has served as CFO of Facebook and YouTube; he's also been a venture capitalist and led Khosla Ventures» investment in Square.

Top tech investor Paul Meeks told «Squawk Box» on Wednesday, that might be in the form of an offer from private equity, since he doesn't see obvious candidates — other technology companies like Microsoft or Alibaba — as interested.

News that tech investor Vinod Khosla is getting sued for turning a public beach private isn't the only example of entrepreneurs rubbing the public the wrong way.

It's hardly even a surprise anymore when a company advertises women as one of its office «perks,» or a high - profile tech conference kicks off with a joke about a a new app for staring at breasts, or a male tech investor declares he wants to change the way women smell through biohacking.

Tech investor and Facebook board member Peter Thiel chatted on Thursday with Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo during a fireside chat at the Economic Club of New York.

Uber says it will accept an investment from Japanese tech investor SoftBank, joining a growing portfolio of U.S. technology investments made by intrepid mogul Masayoshi Son.

At the same time, Burry, who made a fortune in last decade's financial crisis by betting that the housing bubble would burst, is also gaining a following north of Hollywood, as a Silicon Valley tech investor.

How it will perform is anybody's guess — especially after the performer reportedly cut ties with her long - time manager and tech investor Troy Carter.

There are only two African Americans (Oprah Winfrey and tech investor Robert Smith) and five Latinx members among the 400 - person list.

In the past 18 months, Zynga CEO and cofounder Mark Pincus purchased a mansion in San Francisco for $ 16 million; Netscape cofounder Jim Clark purchased a sprawling estate in Southampton for an estimated $ 49 million; Russian tech investor Yuri Milner purchased a chateau - style mansion in Silicon Valley for a record $ 100 million; and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison purchased the entire Hawaiian island of Lanai for an estimated $ 600 million.

You have a podcast of your own called «Office Hours,» and there's an episode with Bill Gurley — a well - known tech investor who has been on your board — that I was listening to.

In the pilot episode of HBO's sitcom Silicon Valley, the character of Peter Gregory, a billionaire tech investor, delivers a TED Talk in which he smugly rails against traditional education.

Sequoia never publicly explained why it chose to shut down its Israel fund but a Jerusalem - based tech investor gave his take on the events.

This goes beyond creating a different way to conduct business — it's a new ideology for people to follow, says Art Mesher, a Waterloo, Ont., tech investor who ran Descartes Systems, a logistics technology firm, for a decade.

The funding, led by prominent tech investor Accel, will bring it closer to its long term goal: using balloons to get people close to space.

The ride - hailing company says it will accept an investment from Japanese tech investor SoftBank.

So are tech investors.

Tech investors Jim Breyer and Tom Siebel sit down with CNBC's Jon Fortt at Delivering Alpha 2017 to discuss how big this industry will become.

A spate of valuations below expectations has many tech investors worried but the problem is likely just normal Silicon Valley volatility.

He is also the general managing partner of G2T3V and Chicago High Tech Investors, both early - stage venture funds; a member of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's ChicagoNEXT Innovation Council; and Governor Bruce Rauner's Innovate Illinois Advisory Council.

Since Kimberlin's first check, Backstage Capital has collected investments from a who's who of tech investors and executives, including Marc Andreessen, Lowercase Capital founder Chris Sacca and his wife, Crystal English, Rose Tech Ventures managing partner David Rose, Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie, and Swati Mylavarapu of Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers.

Tech investors are split on whether the investment is a can't - miss opportunity or the scam of the decade.

Earlier this year, at a time when late - stage tech investors were retrenching, Malwarebytes raised $ 50 million from Fidelity to support the company's growth into the corporate IT shops.