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Thiel was born in Frankfurt am Main, then part of West Germany, on 11 October 1967, to Klaus Friedrich Thiel and his wife Susanne Thiel. [16] [17] The family emigrated to the United States when Peter was one year old and lived in Cleveland, Ohio, where his father worked as a chemical engineer. [18]
Clarium was an employee-owned firm that invests in public equity (primarily in micro-cap companies), fixed income, and hedging markets.Unlike most funds, which charge clients about a 2% management fee for their total assets invested and an additional 20% performance fee of the increase in the fund's net asset value, Clarium charged a 0% management fee and a performance fee of 25%.
Peter Thiel, the billionaire cofounder of PayPal, is one of tech's most public Conservatives.
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 ...
Jack Selby, former vice president of corporate and international development at PayPal who co-founded Clarium Capital with Peter Thiel. Premal Shah, former product manager at PayPal who later became the founding president of Kiva.org. Serves on the Change.org board. Russel Simmons, former PayPal engineer who later co-founded Yelp.
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 ...
Lonsdale began his career as an intern at PayPal, then worked as an early executive at Clarium Capital, a hedge fund run by Lonsdale's mentor, Peter Thiel. In 2004, he, Thiel, Alex Karp , Stephen Cohen , and Nathan Gettings co-founded Palantir Technologies, a data mining and defense technology company.
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 ...