![]() ![]() He is popularly referred to as the "Don of the Paypal Mafia" - a group of former Paypal employees who went on to found other companies. He is currently CEO & Founder of Palantir, a Big Data Analytics company with applications in fraud detection, counter-terrorism, predictive policing and so much more! In 2005, he created Founder's Fund, a VC fund with investments in Linkedin, Spotify, SpaceX, Stripe, etc. He would go on to found Paypal in 1999, merge it with Elon Musk's X.com in 2000 and sell it off to eBay for 1.5 Billion two years later. Originally a Stanford educated lawyer, Thiel soon quit his job describing it as "lacking meaning" & feeling like "Alcatraz". In his book Zero to One, he poses 7 questions every startup needs to ask in order to be successful. 4 on Forbes's 2014 Midas List, it seems that everything this man touches turns to gold. ![]() The former Paypal co-founder is a serial investor & was an early-stage investor in Facebook, Tesla, Airbnb & Youtube among many others. PETER THIEL is one of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. ![]()
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