The Tim Ferriss Show

By Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig

Ep 28: Peter Thiel, Billionaire Investor and Company Creator on Investing, Business, and Life

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Published September 09, 2014 7:41pm

Peter Thiel has been involved with some of the most dynamic companies to emerge from Silicon Valley in the past decade, both as a founder and investor. He is well known as the first outside investor in Facebook, but there's much more to the story...Peter's first start-up was PayPal, which he co-founded in 1998 and led to a $1.5 billion acquisition by eBay in 2002. After the eBay acquisition, Peter founded Clarium Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund. Peter also helped launch Palantir Technologies, an analytical software company which now books $1B in revenue/year, and he serves as the cha...

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