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Peter Thiel

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Peter Andreas Thiel ( ; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. According to Forbes, as of May 2025, Thiel's estimated net worth stood at US$20.8 billion, making him the 103rd-richest individual in the world. After graduating from Stanford, Thiel began his career as a clerk for Judge James Larry Edmondson, worked as a securities lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell, a speechwriter for former U.S. secretary of education William Bennett, and a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Thiel is the 202nd most popular businessperson (up from 396th in 2019), the 1,782nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,763rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Peter Thiel ranks 202 out of 847. Before him are Ben Bradlee, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Thomas J. Watson, Fredrik Idestam, Lee Iacocca, and Peter Sauber. After him are Ludvig Nobel, Theodor de Bry, Roy Raymond, Iwasaki Yatarō, Adriano Galliani, and Robert Trump.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Peter Thiel ranks 48. Before him are Sung Jae-gi, Richard Z. Kruspe, Laura Dern, Denis Villeneuve, Serj Tankian, and Carrie-Anne Moss. After him are François Ozon, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, Harry Connick Jr., and R. Kelly.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Thiel ranks 1,782 out of 7,253. Before him are Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1337), Princess Josephine of Baden (1813), Wilhelm Adam (1877), Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (1893), Friedrich Parrot (1791), and Michael Stifel (1487). After him are Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1562), Hillel Furstenberg (1935), Charles the Child (847), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), Walter Stennes (1895), and Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (1885).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Peter Thiel ranks 20. Before him are Uli Hoeneß (1952), Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682), Karl Albrecht (1920), Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773), James Mayer de Rothschild (1792), and Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774). After him are Melitta Bentz (1873), Maurice de Hirsch (1831), John Jacob Astor (1763), Axel Springer (1912), Dieter Schwarz (1939), and Carl Laemmle (1867).

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