He currently owns a 42.5% stake in the firm. Thiel was born on October 11, 1967, in Frankfurt, West Germany, and moved to the U.S., California with his family in 1977. The billionaire excelled ...

The venture capitalist Peter Thiel, for example, could not be more of an establishment figure: He was an early investor in Facebook, is now a mentor of Vice President–Elect J. D. Vance ...

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