Peter Thiel

Peter Andreas Thiel is a New Zealander-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund. He was ranked No. 4 on the Forbes Midas List of 2014, with a net worth of $2.2 billion, and No. 328 on the Forbes 400 in 2018, with a net worth of $2.5 billion. 

• PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel became a venture capitalist and early investor in Facebook.
• He also cofounded CIA-backed big data startup Palantir, recently valued at around $20 billion.
• Thiel, the first big investor in Facebook, has sold most of his stake in the social network but still sits on the company’s board.
• His Thiel Foundation gives a small number of young entrepreneurs $100,000 over two years to skip college and pursue their business dreams.
• Thiel moved to Los Angeles from San Francisco in early 2018 after calling Silicon Valley a “one-party state.”