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Peter Thiel can be an American businessman, philanthropist, politics activist, and publisher. The PayPal cofounder and Facebook's first professional buyer was ranked number 4 on the Forbes Midas List of 2014, with a online well worth of $2.2 billion, and quantity 246 on the Forbes 400 in 2016, with a online well worth of $2.7 billion. Thiel was created in Frankfurt and supports German citizenship. He shifted with his family to the United States as a child and spent a portion of his upbringing in Africa before returning to the united states and participating San Mateo SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. He studied school of thought at Stanford University or college, graduating with a BA in 1989. Then continued to the Stanford Laws School and received his JD in 1992. After graduation, he performed as a judicial clerk for Judge Adam Larry Edmondson, a securities lawyer for Sullivan & Cromwell, a speechwriter for ex - US Secretary of Education William Bennett, and since a derivatives investor at Credit Suisse prior to founding Thiel Capital in 1996. Then cofounded PayPal in 1999 and served as ceo until its deal to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. After eBay's acquisition of PayPal, he founded Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge finance. He launched Palantir Technology, an analytical software company, in 2004 and continues to provide as its chairman by 2016. His Founders Finance, a venture capital firm, premiered in 2005 along with PayPal associates Ken Howery and Luke Nosek. Before, Thiel became Facebook's first outdoor buyer when he attained a 10.2% stake for $500,000 in August 2004. He sold the majority of his shares in Facebook for over $1 billion in 2012 but remains on the board of directors. He also cofounded Valar Ventures this year 2010 and runs as its chairman, cofounded Mithril Capital, of which he is investment committee couch, in 2012, and has served as somebody in Y Combinator since 2015.
