New Zealand citizen, Peter Thiel, who is one of the world's richest men, and business associate of Elon Musk, has had his house application in Wanaka rejected on appeal by the Environment Court. Theil was the first investor in Rotorua Lakes High School's former student, Shane Legg's company Deep Mind. He started the Artifical Intelligence revolution. Theil once expressed huge enthusiasm about doing business in NZ - he loved how we fostered extreme sports in places like Queenstown and were into risk-taking and being different, with a freedom-loving edge, on top of being friendly and easy going at the same time. Not any more.
