No Death, No Taxes
George Packer profiles Peter Thiel, the libertarian Silicon Valley billionaire who heads the venture-capital firm Founders Fund.
Peter Thiel gave Mark Zuckerberg a half-million-dollar loan in 2004—now worth at least $1.5 billion. But the information age has disappointed him. "The Internet—I think it's a net plus, but not a big one." Twitter employs five hundred people. "How much value does it create for the entire economy?"