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  1. www.mithril.com › our-founders › peter-thielPeter Thiel - Mithril

    Peter Thiel cofounded Mithril. He and Ajay Royan have worked together for nearly two decades. Peter is an entrepreneur and investor. He started PayPal in 1998, led it as CEO, and took it public in 2002, defining a new era of fast and secure online commerce. In 2004 he made the first outside investment in Facebook, where he serves as a director.

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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Peter_ThielPeter Thiel - Wikipedia

    Peter Andreas Thiel (/ tiːl /; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. [1][2][3] A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. [4][5] As of July 2024, Thiel had an estimated net worth of US$11.2 billion and was ranked 212th ...

  3. Feb 18, 2019 · Feb 18, 2019, 2:42 PM PST. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images. Seven years ago, a smooth-talking associate of Peter Thiel promised that he had launched the “capstone” to Thiel’s investment empire ...

  4. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. He was ranked No. 4 on the Forbes Midas List of 2014, with a net worth of $2.2 billion, and No. 391 on the Forbes 400 in 2020, with a net worth of $2.1 billion. In 2016, Thiel confirmed that he had funded Hulk Hogan in the Bollea v.

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  5. Nov 8, 2019 · Founded in 2012, Mithril is named after the super-strong armor worn by characters in “The Lord of the Rings.” (Thiel, an unabashed Tolkien fan, also mined the trilogy for the name of his data ...

  6. Nov 7, 2019 · Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel on the set of “Fox & Friends” at Fox News Channel Studios on August 09, 2019. Peter Thiel’s troubled venture capital firm, Mithril Capital ...

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  8. May 12, 2019 · Mithril’s goal is to find companies that are doing what no one, or almost no one, else is doing. Mr. Thiel doesn’t like crowded tech sectors – “Competition is for losers,” he once said ...

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