Peter Thiel

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