Peter Andreas Thiel (/tiːl/; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir...
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The Thiel Fellowship (originally named 20 under 20) is a fellowship created by billionaire Peter Thiel through the Thiel Foundation. The fellowship is...
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Thiel Foundation is a private foundation created and funded by billionaire Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook. Thiel...
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a protégé of businessman Peter Thiel, Masters co-wrote Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future with Thiel in 2014, based on notes Masters...
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data analytics. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, it was founded by Peter Thiel, Nathan Gettings, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Alex Karp in 2003...
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Stalzer and is funded by Peter Thiel. The Right Stuff was founded by John McEntee, Daniel Huff, and Isaac Stalzer. Peter Thiel funded The Right Stuff with...
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Individuals whom the media refers to as members of the PayPal Mafia include: Peter Thiel, PayPal founder and former chief executive officer who is sometimes referred...
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Nick Denton (section Peter Thiel)
Thomas outed Silicon Valley billionaire businessman Peter Thiel as gay in a post entitled "Peter Thiel is totally gay, people." In the comment section of...
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gym were obviously using steroids. He was, together with billionaire Peter Thiel, involved in the 2013 Bollea v. Gawker lawsuit, which led to Gawker filing...
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the Future is a 2014 book by the American entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel co-written with Blake Masters. It is a condensed and updated version...
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Technologies, Anduril Industries and SpaceX. The firm was organized by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek in early 2005 and raised its first fund of...
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Gawker (section Outing of Peter Thiel as gay)
privacy. Hogan received financial support from billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who had been outed by Gawker against his wishes. On June 10, 2016, Gawker...
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a management consultant for McKinsey & Company to join Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek's e-commerce startup Confinity. Later that year, Sacks...
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S. Senate against Sherrod Brown, but decided not to. In March 2021, Peter Thiel gave $10 million to Protect Ohio Values, a super PAC created in February...
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venture capital fund founded by Andrew McCormack, James Fitzgerald and Peter Thiel in 2010. Historically, the majority of the firm's investments have been...
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Current Mark Zuckerberg Sheryl Sandberg Marc Andreessen John D. Arnold Drew Houston Nancy Killefer Robert M. Kimmitt Hock Tan Tony Xu Former Peter Thiel...
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a global macro strategy. It was founded in San Francisco in 2002 by Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and early investor in Facebook. Its assets under...
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MACH Alliance. The company was originally established by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek in December 1998 as Fieldlink, later it was renamed Confinity...
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million investment, including contributions from Elon Musk, PayPal founder Peter Thiel, Irish entrepreneur Liam Casey, and venture capital firms Sequoia Capital...
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Charles C. Johnson (section Peter Thiel)
long-standing relationship with Silicon Valley financier and Trump backer Peter Thiel, including collaboration on strategy against Gawker and work for the...
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Labs was a grant-making program of the Thiel Foundation (a philanthropic organization created by Peter Thiel) from 2011 until 2021. Breakout Labs issued...
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Harvard Law School in 1994. While at Stanford, he became acquainted with Peter Thiel, then-editor and co-founder of The Stanford Review. Rabois later contributed...
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affected the probability of success. In Silicon Valley, a number of people (Peter Thiel, Alistair Davidson, Mac Levchin, Nicholas G. Carr, Vinod Khosla) have...
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the creator of PayPal. It was founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek, initially as a Palm Pilot payments and cryptography...
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later joined the five-month-old company as its president. According to Peter Thiel, Parker was the first to see potential in the company to be "really big"...
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Google can proceed. Rumble received investment from venture capitalists Peter Thiel, Vivek Ramaswamy and J. D. Vance in May 2021, with that round of funding...
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reportedly patched in January 2021. Boldend is financed, in part, by Peter Thiel, a notable investor in Facebook. In September 2022, a critical security...
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slowing growth as a reason for the decision. Brex Inc. is backed by Peter Thiel, Ribbit Capital, Y Combinator, DST Global, Kleiner Perkins, Lone Pine...
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centered in the area, particularly several events and podcasts funded by Peter Thiel. Media associated with the area include the podcast Red Scare, pirate...
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directly communicate with business leaders. Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel originally backed fellow Californian and tech industry candidate Carly...
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