Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel is an American businessman, entrepreneur and Singularity Institute donor. Thiel co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and is its former CEO. Thiel once proposed that PayPal could be a catalyst for change in world politics ^*.

From San Mateo, California, Thiel is an avowed Libertarian. He studied 20th-century philosophy at Stanford University and continued at the law school. While at Stanford he founded The Stanford Review, now the university's main conservative newspaper. Thiel also has been a contributing author to the Hoover Institution's conservative journal, Policy Review and the co-author of the book, The Diversity Myth: 'Multiculturalism' and the Politics of Intolerance at Stanford.

In 2002, Thiel sold PayPal to eBay for dollar|US$" target="_blank" >^*1.5 billion Currently he is the Founder and Managing Member of Clarium Capital Management, LLC, hedge fund managing over $1.7 billion. He is also the managing partner of the Founders Fund [http://www.thefoundersfund.com/" target="_blank" >^*, a $60 million venture capital firm. Thiel has personally made early-stage investments in many companies including Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, Ironport, LiveOps, and Rapleaf.

Thiel also serves on the board of many prestigious organizations, including Stanford Law School, The Stanford Review, The Independent Institute^{and TheVanguard.Org^{[http://www.thevanguard.org/thevanguard/about/advisors.shtml}.}

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