Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Thiel was born in Frankfurt am Main, then part of West Germany, on 11 October 1967, to Klaus Friedrich Thiel and his wife Susanne Thiel. [16] [17] The family emigrated to the United States when Peter was one year old and lived in Cleveland, Ohio, where his father worked as a chemical engineer. [18]
Peter Thiel, PayPal founder and former CEO who is sometimes referred to as the "don" of the PayPal Mafia. He serves as Chairman of the Palantir board, was a founder of Founders Fund , and was the first outside investor in Facebook .
Peter Thiel, the billionaire cofounder of PayPal, is one of tech's most public Conservatives.
It was PayPal cofounder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel who introduced his mentee, JD Vance, to President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2021. Three years later—with Trump and Vance just ...
The two co-authored a book, and Masters served as chief investment officer at Thiel's investment firm and president of the Thiel Foundation. When Masters pivoted to politics, Thiel donated $13.5 ...
After leaving the White House in 2021, McEntee met with billionaire Peter Thiel to pitch him several tech startup ideas, one of which was the idea for a conservative dating app called The Right Stuff. Thiel agreed to fund the app and subsequently made a seed round investment of $1.5 million. The app launched on September 30, 2022. [33] [34]
Thiel said that after working in the tech industry, he would find it too frustrating to work for the government. Peter Thiel says he wouldn't take a 'full-time' Trump administration job: 'I'd be ...
The company was launched in 1998 as Fieldlink and later renamed Confinity. [2] Many of Confinity's initial recruits were alumni of The Stanford Review, also co-founded by Thiel, and most early engineers hailed from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recruited by Levchin. [3]