Founder of PayPal and is one of the earliest investors in Facebook, Peter Thiel, has given $ 1.25 million in developing the idea of creating an independent island states in international waters.
'Mini seaside town' would be represented, such as oil or gas platform and would be largely independent of outside influences. The founder of the Institute's Seasteading Patri Friedman announced that the Institute, as an original founder of the following year to open an office in San Francisco, a first 'living quarters' could start functioning for seven years. Otherwise, another investor from Silicon Valley, founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, said in June that he would finance the start, "Clock of the Long Now," which will be designed to knock the next 10.000 years, and will be built in the mountains of western Texas.
