
Peter Thiel
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Peter Andreas Thiel is a German and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003), and Founders Fund (2005), he was also the first outside investor in Facebook (2004). According to The New York Times, as of December 2025, Thiel's estimated net worth stood at US$27.5 billion, placing him among the 100 richest individuals in the world.
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- Sifirdan Bire
- Da zero a uno. I segreti delle startup, ovvero come si costruisce il futuro
- Diversity Myth
- Zero to One
- The diversity myth
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- Born
- Peter Andreas Thiel , ( 1967-10-11 ) 11 October 1967 (age 58) , Frankfurt , West Germany
- Citizenship
- Germany United States New Zealand
- Education
- Stanford University ( BA , JD )
- Occupations
- Businessman entrepreneur venture capitalist
- Title
- President of Clarium Capital Chairman of Palantir Partner in Founders Fund President of Thiel Capital Chairman of Valar Ventures Chair of Mithril Capital
- Political party
- Republican
- Spouse
- Matt Danzeisen ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2017 )
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Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is #5 on Forbes' 2026 The Midas List: Top Tech Investors list. Read more about Peter Thiel, their experience, their asset summary, and more here.
forbes.com →Sachi Kamiya's Sentient Foundation, backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, has committed $42 million to open-source AGI as crypto becomes the payment rail for AI agents. Government officials, public figures and billionaires have been linked to a secret society co-founded by Peter Thiel. SpaceX’s monster initial public offering could deliver massive gains for some of Elon Musk’s earliest and most loyal backers like Founders Fund, Valor Equity Partners, and DFJ Growth. Hermeus aims to make planes for the U.S. military that travel over five times the speed of sound—and maybe even introduce the world to hypersonic commercial air travel. Thanks to his relationships to tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, Epstein had access to a number of lucrative tech investments. But he walked away from several deals with major startups that could have netted him hundreds of millions, the new cache of DOJ emails show. Peter Thiel’s AI firm had posted a sluggish start in the stock market this year. Backed by Sam Altman and Peter Thiel, Brinc founder Blake Resnick is on his way to making his quadcopters the top choice for America’s cops—if only he can get the federal government to ban his primary Chinese competitor. ‘South Park’ returns to mock Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, and satirize the 6-7 meme that has swept the nation’s classrooms, along with the looming threat of the antichrist. South Park’s new episode takes aim at the "6-7" meme and billionaire Peter Thiel, plus focuses on the pending birth of President Donald Trump and Satan’s baby and makes Cartman demonically possessed. Trading was briefly halted for the Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange as shares rallied well above its IPO price. The lawsuit targets billionaires including Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel and Reed Hastings—along with Biden’s former chief of staff. As data mining firm Palantir’s shares continue to climb, Thiel is cashing out. He’s not the only Palantir insider doing so.
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Peter Andreas Thiel (/tiːl/ ; born 11 October 1967) is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003), and Founders Fund (2005), he was also the first outside investor in Facebook (2004). According to The New York Times, as of December 2025, Thiel's estimated net worth stood at US$27.5 billion, placing him among the 100 richest individuals in the world.
Born in Germany, Thiel was taken to the US by his parents when he was one year old. In 1971, his family moved to South Africa, then South West Africa, before moving back to the US in 1977. After graduating from Stanford University, Thiel worked as a clerk, a securities lawyer, a speechwriter, and a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse. He founded Thiel Capital Management in 1996 and co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Luke Nosek in 1998. He was PayPal's chief executive officer until its sale to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
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