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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 .
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 ...
Peter Thiel, the renowned tech investor and Republican megadonor, is opening up about his decision to take a step back during the 2024 election cycle. Thiel, ...
Peter Thiel. The firm was organized by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek in early 2005 and raised its first fund of $50 million from individual entrepreneurs and angel investors in January of that year. [6] Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster and ex-president of Facebook, joined in 2006. [6] In 2007, the firm raised a new fund of $220 ...
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book by the American entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel co-written with Blake Masters.It is a condensed and updated version of a highly popular set of online notes taken by Masters for the CS183 class on startups, as taught by Thiel at Stanford University in Spring 2012.
Peter Thiel, the billionaire cofounder of PayPal, is one of tech's most public Conservatives.
The Thiel Fellowship (originally named 20 under 20) is a fellowship created by billionaire Peter Thiel through the Thiel Foundation in 2010. The fellowship is intended for students aged 22 or younger and offers them a total of $100,000 over two years, as well as guidance and other resources, to drop out of school and pursue other work, which could involve scientific research, creating a ...
Facebook's parent company, Meta, said Monday that Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist who helped supercharge the social network's trajectory and later became a vocal supporter of former President ...