PERSON: Eric Weinstein

Thiel Capital

Managing Director

Eric Ross Weinstein (born October 26, 1965) is an American investor and financial executive. As of 2021, he was managing director for the American venture capital firm Thiel Capital. Weinstein has hosted a podcast called The Portal, coined the term “intellectual dark web,” and has proposed a theory of everything called “Geometric Unity” that has largely been met with skepticism in the scientific community.

Weinstein studied mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed his undergraduate degree in 1985.

Weinstein received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1992 under the supervision of Raoul Bott. In his dissertation, “Extension of Self-Dual Yang-Mills Equations Across the Eighth Dimension,” Weinstein showed that the self-dual Yang–Mills equations were not peculiar to dimension four and admitted generalizations to higher dimensions.

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