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Bio
Occupations
- PayPal, co-founder
- Palantir, co-founder, chairman. A data-mining and analysis tool used by the NSA, FBI, CIA and other intelligence, counterterrorism and military agencies—developed from PayPal’s own fraud-detection algorithm. In-Q-Tel was one of the first outside investors in the Palantir technology, which has gained notoriety in recent years for “using War on Terror tools to track American citizens.”
- Clarium Capital, president, a global macro hedge fund with $700 million in assets
- Created Thiel Fellowship
- Layer1, a mining startup backed by Peter Thiel
- Founders Fund; founder (18-10-2020).
Investments
- Facebook, first outside investor, board of directors
- 1confirmation; is one of its backers (9-3-2020).
- Valar Ventures; owner, invested (13-2-2020) in BlockFi.
- Lead a new investment round in Block.one
