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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Peter_ThielPeter Thiel - Wikipedia

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   Peter Andreas Thiel (/ t iː l /; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. [1] [2] [3] A co-founder of PayPal , Palantir Technologies , and Founders Fund , he was the first outside investor in Facebook .

2. jewishinsider.com › 2022 › 11Where is Peter Thiel on our issues? - Jewish Insider

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   November 23, 2022. In the early fall of 2021, Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and GOP megadonor, was holding court in a private dining room at a San Francisco hotel. The occasion was an exclusive dinner reception for a group of young conservative activists, and soon enough, their conversation turned to a speculative game of ...

3. www.newyorker.com › what-is-it-about-peter-thielWhat Is It About Peter Thiel? | The New Yorker

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   Thiel, meanwhile, became an archetypal nineteen-eighties geek—a talented student, chess player, and science-fiction enthusiast who was bullied by his peers. Thiel arrived at Stanford in 1985. He ...

4. www.britannica.com › biography › Peter-ThielPeter Thiel | Biography & Facts | Britannica

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   Peter Thiel (born October 11, 1967, Frankfurt am Main, West Germany) German American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and business executive who helped found PayPal, an e-commerce company, and Palantir Technologies, a software firm involved in data analysis. He also invested in several notable ventures, including Facebook.

5. www.britannica.com › money › Peter-ThielPeter Thiel | Biography & Facts | Britannica Money

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   Peter Thiel (born October 11, 1967, Frankfurt am Main, West Germany) German American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and business executive who helped found PayPal, an e-commerce company, and Palantir Technologies, a software firm involved in data analysis. He also invested in several notable ventures, including Facebook.

6. www.nytimes.com › 2021/09/21 › booksThe Alarming Rise of Peter Thiel, Tech Mogul and Political ...

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   In a revealing new biography, “The Contrarian,” the journalist Max Chafkin charts Thiel’s ascendancy in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., as a driven man drawn to far-right causes and ...

7. www.theatlantic.com › technology › archiveWho Is Peter Thiel? - The Atlantic

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   July 21, 2016. Twelve years ago, Peter Thiel made the luckiest gamble of his life. He bought 10 percent of a startup founded by a scrappy Harvard kid for $500,000. It was that company’s first ...