The story of Peter Thiel

11 Oct 1967 –

Peter Thiel. Investor; co-founder of PayPal and Palantir; Facebook’s first outside investor. Citizen of the United States and Germany. Born in Germany.

1998

Peter Thiel founded PayPal. Co-founder.

2003

Peter Thiel founded Palantir Technologies. Co-founder and chair.

2004

Peter Thiel invested in Meta Platforms. First outside investor (10.2%), $500,000.

2005

Since 2005: Peter Thiel worked at Founders Fund. Partner.

TechCrunch quoted a statement from Thiel about Scale in its report on the August 2019 Series C.

Apr 2005 – May 2022: Peter Thiel, board member of Meta Platforms.

2011 –

Peter Thiel, citizen of New Zealand.

Approved by ministerial decision on 30 June 2011 under section 9(1)(c) of the Citizenship Act; he attended a private citizenship ceremony at the New Zealand Consulate in Santa Monica in August 2011.

May 2012

Peter Thiel invested in Quora. Led the $50 million round.

TechCrunch reported that Thiel led the round personally and not through Founders Fund; his own amount is not stated.

Dec 2015

Peter Thiel funded OpenAI. Donor.

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