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Peter Andreas Thiel (/ t iː l /; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A co-founder of PayPal , Palantir Technologies , and Founders Fund , he was the first outside investor in Facebook .
Peter Thiel, tech billionaire and conservative kingmaker, has amassed influence all over Washington. He's close to powerful elected and un-elected political players, like JD Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy.
Palantir Technologies Inc. is an American publicly traded company that specializes in software platforms [3] for big data analytics.Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, it was founded by Peter Thiel, [4] Stephen Cohen, Joe Lonsdale, [5] and Alex Karp in 2003.
Billionaire Peter Thiel has gained a name as one of Silicon Valley's most controversial figures. The PayPal cofounder went on to have a successful career in venture capital. Known as a connector ...
For much of the Ohio Senate primary, Vance trailed in the polls despite the largesse of Thiel, the explicitly pro-monopoly libertarian who poured $15 million into a super PAC supporting him.
The lawsuit alleges that Meta has accumulated monopoly power via anti-competitive mergers, with the suit centering on the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. [1] The suit was filed on December 8, 2020, in conjunction with 46 states. The lawsuit was initially dismissed in June 2021, but was refiled with an amended complaint in August 2021. [2]
Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were part of a group of Silicon Valley figures, including Hoffman and former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel, who cofounded or helped fund OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit.
Thiel had reportedly wanted to bring Gawker down for having published an article nine years earlier which outed him as gay. [6] [7] The film then covers an incident where casino mogul Sheldon Adelson bought the Las Vegas Review-Journal, while keeping his identity as the buyer a secret, even to the journalists employed by the company. [8]