Peter Andreas Thiel is a venture capitalist. A founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, In 2014 he had a net worth of $2.2 billion, and 2020 a net worth of $2.1 billion. April 24th 2021 he has an estimated worth of $6.74 Billion.

In 2016 he had funded Hulk Hogan in the Bollea v. Gawker lawsuit. Gawker had previously outed him as gay... eventually bankrupting Gawker.

After PayPal, he founded Clarium Capital, a hedge fund based in San Francisco. In 2004, he launched Palantir Technologies, a big data analysis company, and served as its chairman through 2019. In 2005, he launched Founders Fund with PayPal partners.

Thiel became Facebook's first outside investor when he acquired a 10.2% stake for $500,000 in August 2004. Facebook (DARPA - Lifelog). ERGO... CIA money. He sold the majority of his shares in Facebook for over $1 billion in 2012, but remains on the board of directors. He co-founded Valar Ventures and Mithril Capital, and as a partner at Y Combinato