īefore settling in Foster City, California, in 1977, the Thiels lived in South Africa and South West Africa (modern-day Namibia). Klaus then worked for various mining companies, creating an itinerant upbringing for Thiel and his younger brother, Patrick Michael Thiel. The family migrated to the United States when Peter was one year old and lived in Cleveland, Ohio, where his father worked as a chemical engineer. Thiel was born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, on 11 October 1967, to Susanne and Klaus Friedrich Thiel. A co-founder of The Stanford Review, he is a conservative libertarian who has made substantial donations to American right-wing figures and causes. The lawsuit eventually bankrupted Gawker. Gawker lawsuit because Gawker had previously outed him as gay. In 2016, Thiel confirmed that he had funded Hulk Hogan in the Bollea v. 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. He co-founded Valar Ventures in 2010 co-founded Mithril Capital, serving as investment committee chair, in 2012 and served as a part-time partner at Y Combinator from 2015 to 2017. He sold the majority of his shares in Facebook for over $1 billion in 2012, but remains on the board of directors. Earlier, Thiel became Facebook's first outside investor when he acquired a 10.2% stake for $500,000 in August 2004. In 2005, he launched Founders Fund with PayPal partners Ken Howery and Luke Nosek. In 2004, he launched Palantir Technologies, a big data analysis company, and served as its chairman through 2019. He co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Luke Nosek in 1998, serving as chief executive officer until its sale to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.Īfter PayPal, he founded Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund based in San Francisco. He founded Thiel Capital Management in 1996. Secretary of Education William Bennett, and as a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, as a securities lawyer for Sullivan & Cromwell, as a speechwriter for former- U.S. After graduation, he worked as a judicial law clerk for Judge James Larry Edmondson of the U.S. In 1987, he co-founded The Stanford Review, a conservative campus newspaper.
He studied philosophy at Stanford University, graduating with a B.A. īorn in Frankfurt, he moved with his family to the United States as an infant. As of January 2022, Thiel has an estimated net worth of $9.13 billion and was ranked 279th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. 391 on the Forbes 400 in 2020, with a net worth of $2.1 billion. 4 on the Forbes Midas List of 2014, with a net worth of $2.2 billion, and No.
A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook.
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