"Strange"- How 15 Tech Tycoons Spend Their Fortunes
#10 Peter Thiel: Living forever
This German-born American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager and co-founder of PayPal and a billionaire thanks largely to his early backing of Facebook, is financing medical research that could help people live to be 150 years or more.
"There are all these people who say that death is natural, it's just part of life, and I think that nothing can be further from the truth," Thiel has said.
The Thiel Foundation’s anti aging projects includes Ray Kurzweil's Singularity Institute, which works on artificial intelligence and Aubrey de Grey's Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, which hopes to reverse aging altogether.
#9 Sergey Brin: Curing Parkinson's
The Google co-founder Sergey Brin, in 2008 revealed that his mom is suffering with Parkinson’s disease. Through 23andMe, a genetic-testing startup cofounded by his wife, Anne Wojcicki, Brin discovered he has a good chance of getting Parkinson's too. Its mission, while broadly looking at gene-linked diseases, includes finding a way to save Brin and others from this terrible illness.
