Peter Thiel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Peter Thiel

American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager

Date of Birth: 11-Oct-1967

Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Profession: writer, computer scientist, entrepreneur, banker, financier, chess player

Nationality: United States, Germany, New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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About Peter Thiel

  • Peter Andreas Thiel (; born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
  • He is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund.
  • He was ranked No.
  • 4 on the Forbes Midas List of 2014, with a net worth of $2.2 billion, and No.
  • 328 on the Forbes 400 in 2018, with a net worth of $2.5 billion.Thiel was born in Frankfurt.
  • He moved with his family to the United States as an infant, and spent a portion of his upbringing in Southern Africa before the family settled in California in 1977.
  • He studied philosophy at Stanford University, graduating with a B.A.
  • in 1989.
  • He then went on to the Stanford Law School, and received his J.D.
  • in 1992.
  • After graduation, he worked as a judicial clerk for Judge James Larry Edmondson, a securities lawyer for Sullivan & Cromwell, a speechwriter for former-U.S.
  • Secretary of Education William Bennett and as a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse prior to founding Thiel Capital in 1996.
  • He co-founded PayPal in 1999, serving as chief executive officer until its sale to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. After the sale of PayPal, he founded Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund.
  • He launched Palantir Technologies, a big data analysis company, in 2004 and continues to serve as its chairman as of 2019.
  • His Founders Fund, a venture capital firm, was launched in 2005 along with PayPal partners Ken Howery and Luke Nosek.
  • Earlier, Thiel became Facebook's first outside investor when he acquired a 10.2% stake 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.
  • He also co-founded Valar Ventures in 2010, co-founded Mithril Capital, of which he is investment committee chair, in 2012, and served as a partner at Y Combinator from 2015 to 2017.Through the Thiel Foundation, Thiel governs the grant-making bodies Breakout Labs and Thiel Fellowship, and funds nonprofit research into artificial intelligence, life extension and seasteading.
  • A co-founder of The Stanford Review, he is a conservative libertarian who is critical of high government spending, high debt levels, and foreign wars.
  • He has donated to numerous political figures.
  • In 2016, Thiel revealed that he had funded Hulk Hogan in the Bollea v.
  • Gawker lawsuit, which ultimately led to the bankruptcy of Gawker.

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