He founded Thiel Capital Management in 1996 and co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Luke Nosek in 1998. He was the chief executive officer of PayPal until its sale to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Following PayPal, Thiel founded Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund based in San Francisco. [7] .

5 days ago · Peter Thiel (born October 11, 1967, Frankfurt am Main, West Germany) is a German American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and business executive who helped found PayPal, an e-commerce company, and Palantir Technologies, a software firm involved in data analysis.

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Peter Andreas Thiel is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and philanthropist. He is well known as the co-founder of the online payment service company PayPal and the founder of the investment management and hedge fund company Clarium Capital.

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Nov 29, 2024 · One lesser-known fact about the PayPal pivot is that the idea didn’t come from the cofounders, Peter Thiel and Max Levchin. It came from David Sacks who was fresh out of Stanford Law School and a one year stint at McKinsey.

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