Peter Thiel

General Partner, Founders Fund
$10.16B
$225.6M (2.3%)
as of 10/03/24

About Peter Thiel

PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel remains a general partner of venture capital firm Founders Fund, where he is involved in firm strategy and weighs in on its large investments.

Among its investments are Stripe and SpaceX, two of the most valuable unicorns in the world.

He also cofounded CIA-backed big data startup Palantir, which went public via a direct listing in 2020.

Thiel, the first big investor in Facebook, has sold most of his stake in the social network; He left the board in 2022.

His Thiel Foundation gives a small number of young entrepreneurs $100,000 over two years to skip college and build their own company.

Thiel moved to Los Angeles from San Francisco in early 2018 after calling Silicon Valley a "one-party state."

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Facebook, investments

Residence

Los Angeles, California

Marital status

Married

Birth date

10/11/67 (age 56)

Number of children

1

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Stanford University; Doctor of Jurisprudence, Stanford University

Self-made

self-made

Peter Thiel’s fortune is worth

169K

troy ounces of gold

156K

median U.S. household

102K

median U.S. income

0.203%

U.S. credit card volume

0.041%

GDP of the United States

0.03%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Thiel, a Trump delegate in California, was one of the very few outspoken Trump supporters in Silicon Valley; he spoke at the Republican National Convention.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NASDAQ | ABCL-US

AbCellera Therapeutics

NASDAQ | CMMB-US

Chemomab Therapeutics

NASDAQ | META-US

Meta Platforms

NYSE | PLTR-US

Palantir

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