Peter Andreas Thiel (born 1967) is an American entrepreneur, hedge fund manager, libertarian and venture capitalist. With Max Levchin, Thiel co-founded PayPal and was its CEO. He currently serves as president of Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund with more than $2 billion under management, and a managing partner in The Founders Fund, a $275 million venture capital fund he launched with Ken Howery and Luke Nosek in 2005. He was an early investor in Facebook, the popular social-networking site, and sits on the company’s board of directors.
RT @Jhendershot03: Swear if Patrick Peter's sends me one more invite on Facebook I might flip
— meghan_thiel 38 min 38 sec ago.
Zero to One: Notes on Start-ups, or How to Build the Future Peter Thiel (Author), Blake Masters (Author) _Release... t.co/QRLPSHH9lQ
— TradingCFD 3 hours 28 min ago.
RT @ForbesTech: 10 lessons from Peter Thiel's class on startups t.co/4B4Px3dvKs #ForbesGreatestHits
— zouqztweet 4 hours 21 sec ago.
Notes from a class on startups by Peter Thiel: t.co/gD5LE8OGKh Not sure if melodrama or accurate. It's a good read either way.
— bennhoffman 4 hours 14 min ago.
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