Peter Thiel Personality Type
German-American entrepreneur (born 1967)
Peter Andreas Thiel (; born 11 October 1967) is a German-American billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. As of May 2022, Thiel had an estimated net worth of $7.19 billion and was ranked 297th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.Born in Frankfurt, he moved with his family to the United States as an infant. He studied philosophy at Stanford University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in 1989. In 1987, he co-founded The Stanford Review, a conservative campus newspaper. He earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Stanford Law School in 1992. After graduation, he worked as a law clerk for Judge James Larry Edmondson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, as a securities lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell, as a speechwriter for former-U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett, and as a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse. He founded Thiel Capital Management in 1996. He co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Luke Nosek in 1998, serving as chief executive officer until its sale to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
