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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Technologies, Anduril Industries and SpaceX. The firm was organized by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek in early 2005 and raised its first collective...
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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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  • 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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    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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    MACH Alliance. The company was originally established by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek in December 1998 as Fieldlink, later renamed Confinity...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • received a grant of $100,000 as part of the Thiel Fellowship, a two-year program from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. In March 2016, OYO acquired the team of...
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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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    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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  • 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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    funding round in November 2012 with the largest amounts coming from Peter Thiel and Matrix Capital. The company raised more than $100 million at a valuation...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    in 2005: "This Is Water" Conan O'Brien at Dartmouth College in 2011 Peter Thiel, Hamilton College in 2016 Donald Trump, Liberty University in 2017 Hillary...
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  • leak. Bollea would be re-signed by WWE on July 15, 2018. Billionaire Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and former Facebook board member, paid $10 million...
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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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