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Tech titans divided over whether to pay billionaire tax or flee California
State residents worth more than $1bn could face one-off, 5% tax to help fund education, food assistance and healthcare A battle is brewing in California over a plan to tax billionaires – with tech titans divided over whether they should pay up, or flee the state. Under a tax proposal that could be put to…
Palantir: the world’s ‘scariest company’? – podcast
How far will tech firm Palantir go to ‘save the West’? With Michael Steinberger and Johana Bhuiyan Why do some consider Palantir the world’s ‘scariest company’ and who is its chief executive, Alex Karp? Michael Steinberger, the author of The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the Surveillance State, describes…
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’ Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon Peter Thiel, the billionaire political svengali and tech investor, is worried about the antichrist. It could be the US. It could be…