Peter Thiel controls more of your life than Musk or Zuckerberg.

He owns your data. Tracks your location. Funds your leaders.

And most people have never even heard his name.

Here’s how he built Silicon Valley’s shadow empire:
While Musk tweets and Bezos builds rockets, Thiel operates quietly.

He was Facebook's first outside investor. He co-founded Palantir.

He shaped the PayPal Mafia.

But his real power isn't in companies.

It's in his philosophy that's reshaping society...

3 AI geniuses quit OpenAI, Meta, and Quora to build Perplexity.

2 years later: $9 billion valuation.
Jeff Bezos and NVIDIA are investors.
15 million monthly users.

But here's what you wouldn't have guessed about this "Google killer":🧵 Forbes called them a "Bullshit Machine."

The New York Times sent a cease-and-desist.

Reddit users say it hallucinates constantly.

This isn't just another startup struggling...

Terence Tao just revealed why he isn't worried about AI.

The UCLA professor tested ChatGPT's reasoning against complex problems.

It performed like a mediocre student, with ONE disturbing pattern.

His reasoning challenges everything we think about AI dominance:🧵 Terence Tao is widely considered the world's greatest living mathematician.

UCLA professor. Fields Medal winner. Breakthrough Prize recipient.

When he speaks about the future of mathematics, the entire field listens.

His take on AI is surprising:

Steve Jobs handed Samsung the blueprint to destroy Apple.

One handshake in 2005 created a $70 billion monster.

From Apple's most trusted supplier to their deadliest rival in 4 years.

The betrayal that changed every smartphone you've ever owned:🧵 In 2005, Samsung executive Chang-Gyu Hwang visited Steve Jobs with "the solution to Apple's life-or-death problem hidden in my pocket."

He pulled out NAND flash memory.

"This is exactly what I wanted," Jobs said.

But there was a catch:

Malaysia kicked Singapore out in 1965.

It was supposed to be a death sentence.

Instead, it became the greatest business pivot ever.

How forced independence created Singapore's unstoppable wealth: 🧵
August 9, 1965.

Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew broke down in tears on live TV.

Singapore had just been kicked out of Malaysia after less than 2 years.

The island was defenseless, resource-poor, and surrounded by hostile neighbors.

Most experts predicted total collapse...

In 1930, America ignored 1,000 economists and started a trade war.

In 2025, economists are making identical warnings.

Last time's result? Adolf Hitler seized power.

Here's how the U.S. accidentally created history's worst dictator: 🧵 The 1920s were booming.

Strong economic growth everywhere.

But cracks were forming beneath the surface.

Income inequality was rising, debt was mounting.

And one group was getting destroyed:

Elon Musk just turned a Texas beach town into his own city.

283 locals voted, most SpaceX employees.

The vote: 212-6 to create America's newest company town.

That's not even the CRAZIEST part.

Here's the real story: 🧵
Boca Chica Village was once a quiet retirement community in southern Texas.

Now it's "Starbase, Texas" - the world's newest incorporated city.

It's a company town where SpaceX employs most residents and owns most homes...

In 2014, Microsoft was collapsing:

Windows 8 was failing. Nokia was a disaster. Their culture was imploding.

Until ONE man turned it into a $3 TRILLION empire.

Here's how he did it:
When Satya Nadella became Microsoft's CEO in February 2014, the company was in serious trouble.

Bing couldn't make a dent against Google's dominance.

The company faced an antitrust suit from the EU.

But he was about to change everything:

Ryanair's strategy seemed crazy:

• No free water
• Pay-to-pee toilets
• €10 tickets (but €50 if you forget your boarding pass)

Yet they became Europe's most profitable airline.

Here's how: 🧵 Started in 1985 with a single 15-seat plane between Ireland and the UK.

By 1997, CEO O'Leary had created Europe's first true low-cost carrier.

His strategy? Generate publicity through provocative statements.

It worked beyond expectations...

Nvidia's worst nightmare just came true:

Huawei built the exact chips they were banned from buying.

In just months, they shipped 800,000 units matching Nvidia's power.

Now a new superpower threatens America's AI dominance:🧵 The AI revolution has a bottleneck: computing power.

And one company has dominated this space, Nvidia.

Their chips power everything from ChatGPT to Midjourney.

But what happens when the world's second-largest economy gets cut off from this critical technology?

The greatest trade of 2008 made him $4B.

Everyone called him insane for betting against housing.

15 years later, he's betting $800M on something bigger:

A discovery in Alaska that's causing panic on Wall Street.

Here's the full story: 🧵 John Paulson isn't your typical Wall Street billionaire.

In 2007, while everyone rode the housing boom, he saw disaster coming.

He bet AGAINST the U.S. housing market.

The result? A $15B profit.

His personal cut?

Nvidia's new AI platform just exposed a truth:

Companies don't want more power. They want control.

While OpenAI guards their models like gold, Nvidia is giving enterprises the keys to the kingdom.

Here’s how Nvidia wants to change the way you use AI: 🧵 Let’s set the stage.

Nvidia just launched NeMo microservices, a platform for building AI agents.

That puts them in direct competition with OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google.

But Nvidia’s approach? Fundamentally different:

The greatest plot twist in America’s AI war with China:

Trump just put a 37-year-old venture capitalist in charge of U.S. tech strategy.

He studied in China and now controls the response to its rising AI power.

But his first move has Silicon Valley holding its breath: 🧵 Meet Michael Kratsios - the new head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Not your typical appointee.

Before confirmation, he was Thiel's deputy and spent 4 years at Scale AI.

What makes his appointment fascinating? His unique China connection...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's interview with Tucker Carlson just went viral.

And he's NOT just talking about Trump's tariffs.

Instead, he exposed the truth about what happened to America's working class.

Here is what you missed on Trump's $600B tariff plan: 🧵
It started with a bombshell:

“For years, the American middle class has been eviscerated.”

Bessent says this isn’t politics — it’s backed by hard data.

The 2004 “China shock” wrecked U.S. manufacturing, and workers never recovered...

The $250M crypto mystery that stunned the FBI:

• A CEO dies mysteriously.
• All money vanishes without a trace.
• The death certificate raises red flags.

Now investigators think they've been played.

Here's the full story: 🧵 December 9, 2018: Gerald Cotten, CEO of Canada's largest crypto exchange, dies suddenly in India.

He was just 30 years old.

The death certificate spelled his name wrong: "Cottan"

But that wasn't the strangest part...

AI is systematically taking your job––you just don't realize it's happening.

It's following a 6-stage process and we are already at number 4.

The next one will eliminate 80% of human livelihoods.

Here's the disturbing method AI is using to steal every job on Earth: 1. Start with the simplest jobs

Data entry and routine clerical work were the first to go.

Rule-based systems could automate any process with clear-cut instructions, making routine jobs redundant.

But this was just the beginning of something far more concerning...

Сhina built a $93 BILLION megacity from scratch in 7 years.

They turned cornfields into a metropolis 3x bigger than New York City.

It has a train station the size of 88 football fields.

But it's completely empty.

Here's why no one wants to live in President Xi's dream city: Let's start with scale.

Xiongan spans 772 square miles, three times the size of New York City.

It was built to ease pressure on Beijing's overcrowded population of over 20 million people.

But something's deeply wrong with this experiment...

The world's most important company isn't OpenAI, Google, or Apple.

Every device you own relies on its technology.

China and America have been fighting for control of it for 8 years straight.

Here's the untold story of the organization that controls modern life: Meet TSMC - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.

They produce 64.9% of the world's foundry chips.

Every iPhone, Tesla, or PlayStation you've ever owned? Powered by their technology.

But TSMC isn't just a company...

The deadliest threat to influencers is not:

• Celebrities
• Other creators
• Personal Brands

These models already run some of the world's fastest growing businesses.

Here's how AI is taking over social media & making millions (without you even noticing): I've been in Web3 since 2015, and I've never seen anything like this.

The rise of AI influencers isn't just changing social media.

It's completely reshaping how we think about digital identity and authenticity.

And these AI influencers aren't just posting content:

The biggest lie you've been told about work:

That trading time for money is normal.

This system is only 200 years old and it's about to collapse.

Here's why the future of work isn't about hours (& what's coming next): Before the Industrial Revolution, work looked completely different.

Medieval peasants worked around 1,620 hours per year –– far less than we do today.

Work followed natural cycles –– the rhythms of daylight and seasons.

But everything was about to change:

After spending just 12 minutes in their office...

SoftBank's CEO wrote them a $4.4B check.

Less than 30 minutes later, he invested another $2B.

Here's the sales pitch WeWork's founder used to convince the world's smartest investors to ignore basic math 🧵: It's 2017.

WeWork had grown from a single co-working space in Manhattan to hundreds of locations worldwide.

But they were burning cash faster than they could make it.

They needed a miracle to keep growing. And that's exactly what walked through their door...