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American entrepreneur, hedge fund manager, libertarian and venture capitalist, Peter Andreas Thiel, has an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion.
Thiel co-founded PayPal in 1998, sold it to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion, personally netting $60 million. After the company's sale, he founded Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund, in 2002 in San Francisco.
He also co-founded Palantir, a CIA-backed big data analysis startup company, in 2004. He continues to serve as its chairman and the company is valued at $20 billion. His estimated 10% stake in Palantir accounts for more than two-thirds of his net worth.
Peter Thiel is an early investor in Facebook in 2004. He was the first big investor in the company with $500,000. He has sold most of his stake in the social network but still sits on the company's board.
He opened hedge fund Clarium Capital in New York in 2005 but recently moved operations back to California reportedly because the firm was facing losses. The firm's assets, once as high as $6 billion in mid-2008, have fallen to just $460 million (a quarter of that is Thiel's money).
Peter Andreas Thiel was born on October 11, 1967 in Frankfurt, West Germany. The family migrated to the United States and lived in Cleveland until 1977 when they moved California and finally settled in Foster City.
Earnings & Financial Data
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Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2018 |
Asset |
Current value of the CIA-backed big data startup Palantir, which he co-founded with Nathan Gettings, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Alex Karp |
$20,000,000,000 |
|
2018 |
Asset |
Seed round investment at White Earth with 4 investors |
$650,000 |
|
2018 |
Asset |
Series B investment at Equidate with 5 investors |
$50,000,000 |
|
2018 |
Asset |
Series B investment at Brex with 12 investors |
$50,000,000 |
|
2018 |
Asset |
Series A investment at Thinkful with 7 investors |
$9,600,000 |
|
2018 |
Asset |
Series B investment at Immusoft with 3 investors |
$3,000,000 |
|
2017 |
Asset |
Venture investment at Mirror Emoji Keyboard with 26 imvestors |
$30,000,000 |
|
2017 |
Asset |
Series B investment at ChemomAb with 3 investors (lead investor) |
$10,000,000 |
|
2017 |
Asset |
Series A investment at Peptilogics with 3 investors |
$5,500,000 |
|
2017 |
Asset |
Purchase value of bitcoin purchased through Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm |
$17,500,000 |
|
2017 |
Asset |
Series A investment at SafeGraph with 20 investors |
$16,000,000 |
|
2017 |
Asset |
Series A investment at Brex with 10 investors |
$7,000,000 |
|
2017 |
Asset |
Seed round investment at Trade with 4 investors |
$2,600,000 |
|
2017 |
Asset |
Series A investment at Equidate with 5 investors |
$50,000,000 |
|
2017 |
Asset |
Total amount he invested in two local companies in New Zealand |
$7,000,000 |
|
2017 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Amount he donated to the 2011 Christchurch earthquake appeal fund |
$1,000,000 |
|
2017 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Amount he donated to the nonprofit Methuselah Mouse Prize foundation to foster anti-aging research |
$7,000,000 |
|
2016 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Amount he donated in support of Donald Trump's presidential campaign |
$1,250,000 |
|
2016 |
Asset |
Seed round investment at Teal with Kickstart Seed Fund |
$2,800,000 |
|
2016 |
Asset |
Convertible note provided for Ostendo Technologies |
$15,500,000 |
|
2015 |
Asset |
Listing price of his mansion in San Francisco's Marina District |
$9,250,000 |
|
2015 |
Asset |
Seed round investment at Osaro with 12 investors |
$3,300,000 |
|
2015 |
Asset |
Seed round investment at Transatomic Power Corporation with 3 investors |
$2,500,000 |
|
2014 |
Asset |
Current value of Palantir Technologies, a big data analysis company named after the Tolkien artifact as the company's chairman and largest shareholder |
$20,000,000,000 |
|
2013 |
Asset |
Seed round investment at Declara with 3 investors |
$5,000,000 |
|
2013 |
Asset |
Seed round investment at Breezeworks with 12 investors |
$2,000,000 |
|
2013 |
Asset |
Seed round investment at Clinkle with 18 investors |
$25,000,000 |
|
2013 |
Asset |
Seed round investment at PandoDaily with 18 investors |
$3,000,000 |
|
2012 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Amount he onation to Minnesotans United for All Families, in order to fight Minnesota Amendment 1 |
$10,000 |
|
2012 |
Asset |
Angel round investment at MetaMed |
$500,000 |
|
2012 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Amount he donation to the Club for Growth, a fiscally conservative 501(c)(4) organization |
$1,000,000 |
|
2012 |
Asset |
Money spent for the launch of Mithril Capital Management that targets companies that are beyond the startup stage and ready to scale up |
$402,000,000 |
|
2012 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Amount he donation along with Luke Nosek and Scott Banister, to put their support behind the Endorse Liberty Super PAC |
$3,900,000 |
|
2012 |
Asset |
Seed round investment at Artivest with 9 investors |
$2,000,000 |
|
2012 |
Asset |
Angel round investment at Artify It with 3 investors |
$800,000 |
|
2012 |
Sale of Asset |
Estimated value of the majority of his Facebook shares that he sold |
$1,000,000,000 |
|
2012 |
Asset |
Angel round investment at Everest with 3 investors |
$300,000 |
|
2011 |
Asset |
Value of his 5,870-square-foot home in Hollywood Hills West |
$11,500,000 |
|
2011 |
Asset |
Current value of the Clarium Capital Management's assets |
$350,000,000 |
|
2011 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Total amount he donated to the new Seasteading Institute, directed by Patri Friedman, whose mission is "to establish permanent, autonomous ocean communities to enable experimentation and innovation with diverse social, political, and legal systems |
$1,250,000 |
|
2011 |
Asset |
Seed round investment at BestVendor with 3 investors |
$600,000 |
|
2011 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Amount he donated for young visionaries under the age of 20 to drop out o college and pursue other work, which could involve scientific research, creating a startup, or working on a social movement |
$100,000 |
|
2011 |
Asset |
Angel round investment at CapLinked with 5 investors |
$900,000 |
|
2011 |
Asset |
Seed investment at Stripe with 4 investors |
$2,000,000 |
|
2010 |
Asset |
Value of his oceanfront home in Maui |
$27,000,000 |
|
2010 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Donation to Meg Whitman in her unsuccessful bid for the governorship of California |
$25,900 |
|
2009 |
Asset |
Angel round investment at Asana with 13 investors |
$1,200,000 |
|
2008 |
Asset |
Seed round investment at Labmeeting with The Kinsey Hills Group |
$500,000 |
|
2007 |
Asset |
Seed round investment at Hooja with 3 investors (lead investor) |
$1,300,000 |
|
2007 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Donation for the annual Singularity Challenge donation drive |
$400,000 |
|
2007 |
Asset |
Seed round investment at Redux with 2 investors |
$1,700,000 |
|
2006 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Amount he donated to foster anti-aging research through the Methuselah Mouse Prize foundation |
$3,500,000 |
|
2006 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Amount he donated to back the Singularity Challenge donation drive of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (then known as the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence) |
$100,000 |
|
2004 |
Asset |
Angel round investment at Facebook with 4 investors (lead investor) |
$500,000 |
|
2002 |
Asset |
Series B investment at IronPort Systems with 8 investors |
$16,500,000 |
|
2002 |
Asset |
Amount he spent for the establishment of Clarium Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund focusing on directional and liquid instruments in currencies, interest rates, commodities, and equities |
$10,000,000 |
|
2002 |
Sale of Asset |
Value of his s 3.7% stake in PayPal upon sale to eBay |
$55,000,000 |
|
2002 |
Sale of Asset |
Value of PayPal upon sale to eBay |
$1,500,000,000 |
|
2001 |
Asset |
Series A investment at IronPort Systems with 4 investors |
$3,900,000 |
|
1998 |
Asset |
Amount he raised for the establishment of Thiel Capital Management to embark on his venture capital career |
$1,000,000 |