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Kenneth Alan Howery (/ ˈ h aʊər i /; born November 4, 1975) is an American entrepreneur and diplomat. He is a co-founder of PayPal [ 1 ] and Founders Fund . [ 2 ] He served as the U.S. ambassador to Sweden from 2019 to 2021 under President Donald Trump .
Founders Fund is an American venture capital fund formed in 2005 and based in San Francisco. The fund has roughly $12 billion in total assets under management as of 2023. [ 1 ] Founders Fund was the first institutional investor in Space Exploration Technologies ( SpaceX ) and Palantir Technologies , and an early investor in Facebook .
Peter Thiel, PayPal founder and former CEO who is sometimes referred to as the "don" of the PayPal Mafia. Serves as Chairman of the Palantir board and is a founder of Founders Fund. He also was the first outside investor in Facebook. Max Levchin, founder and chief technology officer at PayPal. Current CEO of Affirm.
Several of PayPal’s cofounders or early executives—Thiel, Craft Ventures’ David Sacks, and former U.S. ambassador to Sweden Ken Howery—wrote for the paper, as did three founders of ...
During that first administration, Trump selected Ken Howery, a Stanford Review and PayPal alum, as the U.S. ambassador to Sweden (Howery was also reportedly at Mar-a-Lago during the 2024 election ...
Founders Fund has garnered a lot of money from investors; it has also returned quite a bit of capital. Yesterday, the 17-year-old outfit took the wraps off more than $5 billion in fresh capital ...
In 2005, Thiel launched Founders Fund with PayPal partners Ken Howery and Luke Nosek. Thiel became Facebook's first outside investor when he acquired a 10.2% stake in the company for $500,000 in August 2004. He sold the majority of his shares in Facebook for over $1 billion in 2012, but remains on the board of directors. [8]
Several of PayPal’s cofounders or early executives—Thiel, Craft Ventures’ David Sacks, and former U.S. ambassador to Sweden Ken Howery—wrote for the paper, as did three founders of ...