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How Peter Thiel Wants To Change Education System


1. Peter Andreas Thiel an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist and author

Born in Frankfurt, Germany 1967

Bachelors of Arts/Science from Stanford University

Lives in San Francisco, California

Net Worth: $2.7 billion

2. Source of Wealth: Facebook, Palantir Tech, Self-Made

One of the first angel investors and part of the Board of Directors for Facebook

#73 in Powerful People

Books: Zero to One.

3. A cofounder in PayPal in 1998 with Elon Musk and served as CEO until it was sold to Ebay in 2002. Peter made $60 million from the deal and used $500,000 as an angel investor for Facebook.

An early investor in LinkedIn, Yelp, Quora, Stripe, IronPort, Friendster

4. 2004 - He launched Palantir Technologies, a software company that harnesses computers to empower human analysts in fields like national security global finance.

A partner at Founders Fund a venture capital firm that has funded in companies building revolutionary technologies such as SpaceX and Airbnb.

Mithril a global investment firm that provides capital to companies who uses technology to build lasting businesses.

5. Thiel Fellowship was founded in 2011, a two year program for people who desire to build new things – awards 20 people under 20 years old $100,000 to encourage them to follow their ventures.

Since than has launched more than 60 companies worth over $1.1 billion.

Reasoning behind launching Thiel Fellowship is to remove the stigma of missing out on college, student debt, and lack of useful learning.

6. In 2016, he proudly announced he was gay and a strong advocate of liberty and human rights.

Peter also supports anti-aging research, “increase the human health span, tackle neurodegenerative diseases, and reverse age-related decline.”

7. 5In short, Peter’s rule for success is to build a monopoly in order to differentiate from the competition that there is no competing and do that one thing uniquely well.

“Nobody in their right mind starts a company because they want to start a company. You should start a company because there is a very important problem to solve.”

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