Weinstein is a mathematician and podcaster known for coining the term "intellectual dark web."

He earned a PhD in mathematics from Harvard University in 1992.

• He served as managing director of Thiel Capital, the investment firm of Peter Thiel.

• He hosts the podcast The Portal, and has promoted a proposed "theory of everything" called Geometric Unity, which physicists have criticized as incomplete.

• His brother is evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein.