Peter Thiel

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Peter is Clarium Capital’s President and the Chairman of the firm’s investment committee, which oversees the firm’s research, investment, and trading strategies. He is also a managing partner at The Founders Fund. Before starting Clarium, Peter served as Chairman and CEO of PayPal, an Internet company he co-founded in December 1998 and was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002. Prior to founding PayPal, Peter ran Thiel Capital Management , the predecessor to Clarium, which started with $1 million under management in 1996.

Peter began his financial career as a derivatives trader at CS Financial Products, after practicing securities law at Sullivan & Cromwell. In addition to managing Clarium, Peter is active in a variety of philanthropic and educational pursuits; he sits on the Board of Directors of the Pacific Research Institute and on the Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School. Peter received a BA in Philosophy from Stanford University and a JD from Stanford Law School.

Milestones

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• Peter Thiel — Named one of Time Magazine's top 25 most influential people on the web (2008) (9/30/08)
  Posted 10/1/08 at 11:12am
• Invested in Adroll (Semantic Sugar, Inc.). (9/16/08)
  Posted 9/16/08 at 12:16pm
• Invested in Labmeeting. (5/08)
  Posted 7/30/08 at 8:42am
• Invested in Zynga. (1/1/08)
  Posted 1/18/08 at 12:23am
• Invested in Hooja. (12/1/07)
  Posted 12/31/07 at 5:29am
• Invested in Clickable. (11/1/07)
  Posted 11/20/07 at 3:11am
• Invested in OpTrip. (9/1/07)
  Posted 12/3/07 at 3:05am
• Invested in Mogad. (8/1/07)
  Posted 1/11/08 at 12:33am
• Invested in Big Think. (6/1/07)
  Posted 1/8/08 at 12:44am
• Invested in Redux. (3/1/07)
  Posted 2/21/08 at 7:21am
• Invested in FlickIM. (3/1/07)
  Posted 7/16/07 at 9:26pm
• Invested in Badongo.com. (2006)
  Posted 3/11/09 at 3:17pm
• Invested in Facebook. (9/1/04)
  Posted 5/26/07 at 10:08pm
• Invested in YouNoodle. (3/6/03)
  Posted 2/18/08 at 7:25pm
• Invested in PayPal. (1/99)
  Posted 5/13/08 at 12:13am
• Added position as Investor at Buddy Media.
  Posted 9/23/07 at 12:30pm
• Added position as Managing Partner at Badongo.com.
  Posted 5/31/07 at 12:15pm
• Invested in Rapleaf.
  Posted 12/2/08 at 7:26pm
• Added position as Board at Geni.
  Posted 5/31/07 at 12:49pm
• Added position as Board of Directors at Powerset.
  Posted 11/2/07 at 5:04am
• Added position as Investor at OpTrip.
  Posted 12/3/07 at 3:05am
• Added position as Investor at OpTrip.
  Posted 1/18/08 at 12:25am
• Added position as Board Of Directors at Facebook.
  Posted 6/29/08 at 8:50pm
• Added position as Buildaburger at Facebook.
  Posted 6/2/09 at 5:16pm
• Added position as Chairman of the Board at Palantir Technologies.
  Posted 9/4/09 at 10:15am

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