{"id":3285,"date":"2024-02-03T16:07:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T16:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/03\/for-all-his-obsession-with-innovation-peter-thiel-has-some-stone-age-views-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2024-02-03T16:07:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T16:07:33","slug":"for-all-his-obsession-with-innovation-peter-thiel-has-some-stone-age-views-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/03\/for-all-his-obsession-with-innovation-peter-thiel-has-some-stone-age-views-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"For all his obsession with innovation, Peter Thiel has some stone-age views | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The billionaire is bankrolling a pro-drugs version of the Olympics, but does he care about the whole women-having-rights thing? Nah<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever dreamed up a completely deranged business idea but lacked the cash to execute it? Peter Thiel, the secretive tech billionaire who co-founded Paypal, doesn\u2019t have that problem. He, along with a group of other venture capitalists, is currently deploying part of his vast fortune to help <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/peter-thiel-is-funding-a-new-olympics-steroids-not-a-p-1851211979\">bankroll a pro-drugs version of the Olympics<\/a> called the <a href=\"https:\/\/enhanced.org\/\">Enhanced Games<\/a>. It\u2019s exactly what it sounds like: a sporting competition in which participants are encouraged to take as many performance-enhancing substances as they can get their steroid-enlarged hands on. All in the name of science and innovation, naturally.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/feb\/03\/peter-thiel-steroid-olympics-enhanced-games-patriarchy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The billionaire is bankrolling a pro-drugs version of the Olympics, but does he care about the whole women-having-rights thing? Nah Have you ever dreamed up a completely deranged business idea but lacked the cash to execute it? Peter Thiel, the secretive tech billionaire who co-founded Paypal, doesn\u2019t have that problem. He, along with a group &#8230; <a title=\"For all his obsession with innovation, Peter Thiel has some stone-age views | Arwa Mahdawi\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/03\/for-all-his-obsession-with-innovation-peter-thiel-has-some-stone-age-views-arwa-mahdawi\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about For all his obsession with innovation, Peter Thiel has some stone-age views | Arwa Mahdawi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}