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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. From a foreign policy standpoint, however, Thiel’s personal appreciation for the Jewish state does not seem to have been accompanied by any public assessment of the long-standing relationship between the U.S. and Israel.

  3. 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. Thiel argues now that he is the victim of the same mob mentality. Of course the comparison is false. Being Jewish (or Muslim or Mexican) isn’t something we can opt out of.

  5. In 2007 Thiel’s personal life attracted attention when Gawker’s tech blog featured an article that claimed he was homosexual. Thiel denounced the online media company, though he subsequently announced that he was gay.

  6. 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. Peter Thiel’s origin story. His ideology dominates Silicon Valley. It began to form when he was an angry young man. Here a book excerpt from “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s ...

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