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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.
[7] [8] Based in Singapore, [9] he is the co-founder and co-CEO of the venture capital firm B Capital, and has also invested in early-stage startups such as Qwiki [10] and Jumio. [11] Saverin is the wealthiest Brazilian, with an estimated net worth of US$40.2 billion as of 17 February 2025, according to Forbes , and the 40th richest individual ...
Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) [3] is an American businessperson, who is a co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Inc. from 2015 until 2021, as well as co-founder, principal executive officer and chairman of Block, Inc. (developer of the Square financial services platform). He is also the founder of Bluesky.
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A great co-founder relationship is a beautiful thing. But if you cannot, it can be good to be a solo founder too! Just go hire a great team, and perhaps a co-founder will emerge from the ranks.
One of the founders of Dutch fintech star Adyen, Arnout Schuijff, has been quietly building out his next startup since leaving the $50 billion Stripe rival in 2020.
In 1989, Jim McKelvey and a team of software engineers from Washington University, established Mira in St. Louis. Their inaugural product, a commercial document imaging system, was partly developed by their summer intern Jack Dorsey, [7] who would later rise to prominence as the co-founder of Twitter.
In 2005, Howery and Thiel, along with fellow PayPal alumnus, Nosek, started Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management, where he served as co-founder and partner. He has served on the boards of Quantcast and ZocDoc. In 2010, Venture Capital Journal named Howery one of the Top 10 VCs under 36 ...