Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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. 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 ...
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.
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 ...
Like many billionaires, Peter Thiel is already benefiting from Donald Trump's second presidential win. His net worth jumped following the election, reaching a record high of $14 billion on Friday ...
Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who served as the sugar daddy for GOP vice presidential hopeful JD Vance’s Senate run, who helped kill Gawker, and who names his companies after bits of JRR ...
Breakout Labs is a grant-making body operating as part of the Thiel Foundation. Breakout Labs gives grants for early-stage scientific research that is too speculative or long-term to interest the for-profit sector (such as angel investors and venture capitalists) but may be unsuitable for traditional sources of funding for scientific research due to its radical or offbeat nature. [11]
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 ...