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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 .
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.
Peter Thiel has been a major Trump supporter and spent big to help elect JD Vance to the Senate. He said he's not interested in working in Trump's new administration — at least full-time.
Peter Thiel predicted that either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump would win the 2024 election handily. Thiel, who said he's "very strongly pro-Trump," pointed out that most elections aren't close.
In September, the conservative tech billionaire Peter Thiel made what he himself said was an unusual prediction about the 2024 election. "I think the odds are slightly in favor of Trump, but it's ...
In September 2000, when Musk was in Australia for a honeymoon trip, the X.com board voted for a change of CEO from Musk to Peter Thiel, the co-founder of Confinity due to mismanagement on Musk's part. In June 2001, the x.com domain was changed to PayPal.com. [17]
The company was launched in 1998 as Fieldlink and later renamed Confinity. [2] Many of Confinity's initial recruits were alumni of The Stanford Review, also co-founded by Thiel, and most early engineers hailed from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recruited by Levchin. [3]
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel said he won’t have a “full-time” role in the second President-elect Trump administration, adding that he would become “depressed and crazy” if he spent his ...