Peter Thiel is a German-born American businessman. He is an innovator in banking and startup finance. He co-founded PayPal in 1998.
He is managing partner at the Founders Fund. He also established the hedge fund Clarium Capital Management. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Facebook.
He has investments to various entities including:
- PayPal
- IronPort Systems
- Joyent
- Badongo.com
- Redux
- Big Think
- Hooja
- Labmeeting
- Asana
- Stripe
- CapLinked
- BestVendor
- Everest
- Artify it
- Artivest
- Blend
- MetaMed
- Thinkful
- PandoDaily
- Clinkie
- Breezeworks
- Declara
- Transatomic Power Corporation
- Osaro
- Ostendo Technologies
- Parasail Health
- Teal
- Trade
- SafeGraph
- ChemomAb
- Mirror Emoji Keyboard
- Immunosoft
Peter Thiel finished Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at the Stanford University in 1989 and obtained Doctor of Jurisprudence at the Stanford Law School in 1992.
One of his philanthropic works is the Thiel Foundation, which gives money to teenagers to start a tech company instead of going to college. Vitalik Buterin is one of the recipients of this grant.
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Documentaries, videos and podcasts
2019 Wriston Lecture: Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel: Zero to One
The World According to Thiel