• lettruthout@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Peter Andreas Thiel (born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. As of July 2024, Thiel had an estimated net worth of US$11.2 billion and was ranked 212th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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      8 hours ago

      Imagine being worth 11 Billion (that we know of) and only being 212th on the billionaires list.

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      18 hours ago

      Huh I never knew anything about him except he supported stuff to make society worse and was a billionaire, yeah I repeat myself. I thought he’d be older like a Koch for some reason.

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      16 hours ago

      I say it every time, I am astounded the Tolkien estate allowed the use of the word Palantir…

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        If the Tolkien estate has a trademark on that word it doesn’t stop a company in an entirely different field to name their company that word. Owning a trademark doesn’t mean you own all the usage rights of that word. You only have the rights in a specific category.

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          3 hours ago

          So, if an arms manufacturer creates a functional Iron Man suit, is nothing stopping them from calling it Iron Man? I assume they wouldn’t be allowed to make it look exactly like the Marvel character, but comic books and the MIC are certainly in different fields…