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Peter Thiel

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

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How Max Levchin met Peter Thiel on Stanford Campus

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Company Date Round Size Participants
CollegeOnly 8/10Series A$1.15M6
YouNoodle 1/10Series A3
Asana 4/09Angel$1.2M13
Adroll (Semantic Sugar, Inc.) 9/08Series A$4M9
Labmeeting 5/08Seed$500k2
Zynga 1/08Series A$10M10
Hooja 12/07Seed$1.25M4
Clickable 11/07Series A$3M4
OpTrip 9/07Series A$500k2
Mogad 8/07Series A$500k4
Big Think 6/07Seed5
Redux 3/07Seed$1.65M2
FlickIM 3/07Series A$1.6M2
Rapleaf 6/06Angel6
Badongo.com 2006Series A15
Joyent 2005Seed2
Facebook 9/04Angel$500k2
IronPort Systems 6/02Series B$16.5M6
PayPal 1/99Series A3

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  10. OpTrip, online travel company, raises $500,000 (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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  15. Rapleaf Secures Venture Capital Funding (rapleaf.com) [edit]
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  17. Joyent Raises Institutional Money: Why We Did It (joyent.com) [edit]
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