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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. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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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  6. Oct 4, 2022 · Peter Thiel's new dating app for conservatives, The Right Stuff, is already making waves. Last week, the app released an ad full of interviews with conservative women who were asked what they are ...

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  8. Apr 20, 2022 · Vance is a former employee of Thiel’s Mithril Capital, and Masters, until recently the COO of Thiel’s so-called “family office,” also ran the Thiel Foundation, which has become ...

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