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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.

Recent Milestones

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  Peter Thiel invested in PandoDaily. (5/29/13)
  Posted 1/16/12 at 10:52am via dowjones.com
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  Peter Thiel invested in Judicata. (5/28/13)
  Posted 5/28/13 at 9:15am via blakemasters.com
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  Peter Thiel invested in On Deck. (5/1/13)
  Posted 5/2/13 at 6:39am via techcrunch.com
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  Peter Thiel invested in Thinkful. (2/26/13)
  Posted 2/26/13 at 11:13pm via techcrunch.com
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  Peter Thiel invested in LightSail Energy. (2/19/13)
  Posted 2/19/13 at 9:26pm via greentechmedia.com
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  Peter Thiel invested in Judicata. (12/11/12)
  Posted 12/11/12 at 7:55pm via techcrunch.com
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  Peter Thiel invested in CapLinked. (11/29/12)
  Posted 11/29/12 at 10:08pm via techcrunch.com
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  Peter Thiel invested in LightSail Energy. (11/5/12)
  Posted 11/6/12 at 2:23am via finsmes.com
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  Peter Thiel invested in MetaMed. (9/1/12)
  Posted 4/8/13 at 12:02pm via thenextweb.com
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  Peter Thiel invested in Asana. (7/23/12)
  Posted 7/23/12 at 5:50pm via techcrunch.com
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  Peter Thiel invested in Stripe. (7/9/12)
  Posted 7/9/12 at 4:32pm via techcrunch.com
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  Peter Thiel invested in Quora. (5/14/12)
  Posted 5/14/12 at 5:54pm via techcrunch.com
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  Peter Thiel invested in Artify It. (4/25/12)
  Posted 4/24/12 at 10:12pm via finsmes.com
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  Peter Thiel invested in Legendary Entertainment. (4/4/12)
  Posted 4/5/12 at 7:53pm via finsmes.com
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  Peter Thiel invested in Xero. (2/3/12)
  Posted 2/3/12 at 6:34pm via venturebeat.com
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  Peter Thiel invested in Lore. (1/3/12)
  Posted 1/2/12 at 9:12am via nytimes.com

Investments

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The 25 Most Influential People on the Web (images.businessweek.com) [edit]
1. PandoDaily Adds Redpoint, Brings Funding to $3M (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
2. Judicata raises $5.8 million led by Khosla Ventures — Guest post from Keith Rabois (blakemasters.com) [edit]
3. On Deck Adds $17M From Google Ventures And Peter Thiel To Help Small Businesses Connect With Capital (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Backed By $1M From Peter Thiel & More, Thinkful Is On A Mission To Reinvent Career Training (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. LightSail Gets $5.5M From Total, Thiel, Khosla, Gates for Compressed Air Energy Storage (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
6. Judicata Raises $2M From Peter Thiel, Keith Rabois And Others To Give Lawyers Better Research And Analytics Tools (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Deal Management Startup CapLinked Raises $1.6M From FF Angel, 500 Startups, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. LightSail Energy Raises $37.3M in Series D Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
9. Peter Thiel-backed MetaMed thinks you should have your own on-demand medical research team (thenextweb.com) [edit]
10. Workplace Collaboration Tool Asana Raises $28M At A $280M Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Sexy Payments Startup Stripe Swipes $20M From General Catalyst, Sequoia, Thiel And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Quora Raises $50M At $400M From Peter Thiel, D’Angelo Puts In $20M Of His Own Money (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Artify It Raises $800K in Angel Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
14. Legendary Entertainment Raises $275M in Equity and Debt Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
15. Small business accounting service Xero raises $16.6M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
16. NYT (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
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18. Art.sy Raises $6 Million Series A From Peter Thiel, Thrive Capital, Wendi Murdoch And Dasha Zhukova (techcrunch.com) [edit]
19. Sequoia-Backed Stripe Wants To Disrupt The Online Payments Space (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. Peter Thiel, Lerer Ventures And Others Put $600K In BestVendor (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. PETER THIEL ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL CLASS OF 20 UNDER 20 THIEL FELLOWS (thielfoundation.org) [edit]
22. CapLinked Raises $900K From A-Listers To Crush AngelList* (businessinsider.com) [edit]
23. Peter Thiel Invests $3 Million In Xero To Support Its US Expansion (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. Facebook Investor Peter Thiel Backing Another Social Network For College Students, CollegeOnly (businessinsider.com) [edit]
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26. Asana (privco.com) [edit]
27. paidcontent (paidcontent.org) [edit]
28. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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30. venturebeat.com [edit]
31. americanventuremagazine.com [edit]
32. OpTrip, online travel company, raises $500,000 (venturebeat.com) [edit]
33. Acebucks Gets $1.5 Million For Virtual Facebook Currency (techcrunch.com) [edit]
34. Bookmarks Sharing Provider Mogad Secures $500K First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
35. nytimes.com [edit]
36. Techcrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
37. EDGAR [edit]
38. Rapleaf Secures Venture Capital Funding (rapleaf.com) [edit]
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40. Joyent Raises Institutional Money: Why We Did It (joyent.com) [edit]
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42. IronPort press release (ironport.com) [edit]
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