Venture Capitalist, 45
"What happened to the future?" is a pretty good summation of the philosophy that drives billionaire Thiel's libertarian utopianism. A cofounder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, his Founder's Fund backs transformational technologies, from Elon Musk's space travel venture SpaceX to music streaming app Spotify, and he recently joined Bill Gates in funding LightSail, a start-up to store alternative energy.






























The racist, homophobic, and frightening arrest of Don Lemon
Opinion: It’s not a coincidence or an accident that Lemon, and other Black journalists were targeted by the Trump Justice Department, writes John Casey.