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Peter Thiel

1967 – ? American venture capitalist, PayPal co-founder

Contrarian investor at the center of the PayPal Mafia network.

Religion
Christian.
Affiliations
Co-founded PayPal and Palantir; runs Founders Fund; was Facebook's first outside investor and a longtime board member. Has attended the Bilderberg Meeting.

Peter Andreas Thiel was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and raised in the United States. He co-founded PayPal and later the data firm Palantir, and made an early bet on Facebook. He backs libertarian causes and was an early Donald Trump supporter in 2016.

Connections

  • associate of David Sacks — Co-authored a book at Stanford and worked at PayPal together.
  • associate of David Sacks — Worked together at Stanford and PayPal.
  • associate of Elon Musk — PayPal co-founders and the anchor of the 'PayPal Mafia.'
  • associate of Elon Musk — PayPal co-founders; core of the 'PayPal Mafia.'
  • associate of Ken Howery — PayPal co-founders and Founders Fund partners.
  • associate of Mark Zuckerberg — Thiel was Facebook's first outside investor and board member.
  • associate of Max Levchin — Co-founded PayPal together.
  • associate of Reid Hoffman — Stanford classmates and PayPal colleagues.

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