| Peter Thiel AKA Peter Andreas Thiel Born: 11-Oct-1967
Birthplace: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Gender: Male
Religion: Christian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Gay [1]
Occupation: Business
Party Affiliation: Libertarian Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Co-Founder of PayPal Revealed to have funded a defamation lawsuit by Hulk Hogan against Gawker Media which resulted in a $140M verdict against the publisher.
Money may not have been the main motivation in the first place. Thiel, who is gay, has made no secret of his distaste for Gawker, which attempted to out him in late 2007 before he was open about his sexuality. In 2009, Thiel told PEHub that now-defunct Silicon Valley-focused publication Valleywag, which was owned by Gawker, had the "psychology of a terrorist."
"Valleywag is the Silicon Valley equivalent of Al Qaeda," Thiel said at the time.
Net worth $2.7B (Forbes 2016).
[1] "Peter Thiel is totally gay, people", Owen Thomas, Valleywag, 19 Dec 2007. "There's been a crush of coverage on his $220 million Founders Fund, which may well change the way entrepreneurs get paid in the Valley. We know about his mansion (he rents it -- clever!), his butler, his early-morning jogs. But what no one ever says out loud: Thiel is gay." In a comment responding to the story (20 Dec 2007), Gawker publisher Nick Denton elaborated: "Not such an odd match. Boyfriend is, or was, earlier this year, a guy called Matt, working in finance, in New York. The only thing that's strange about Thiel's sexuality: why on earth was he so paranoid about its discovery for so long? ... He was so paranoid that, when I was looking into the story, a year ago, I got a series of messages relaying the destruction that would rain down on me, and various innocent civilians caught in the crossfire, if a story ever ran."
Father: Klaus Thiel (chemical engineer)
Mother: Susanne
Brother: Patrick
High School: San Mateo High School, San Mateo, CA (1985)
Administrator: Student Representative, Board of Trustees, San Mateo Union High School District
University: BA Philosophy, Stanford University (1989)
Law School: JD, Stanford Law School (1992)
Administrator: Board of Visitors, Stanford Law School
Member of the Board of Palantir Technologies Co-Founder (2004)
PayPal Co-Founder (1998-)
Clarium Capital Management, LLC
Sullivan & Cromwell Securities lawyer
Credit Suisse Derivatives trader
US Education Department Speechwriter for Secy. William Bennett
Law Clerk for US Court of Appeals Judge Larry Edmondson
Member of the Board of Facebook
Friendster Investor
American Foundation for Equal Rights
Bilderberg Group Steering Committee
Cantor for Congress
Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Re-Elect Ron Paul
DeMint for Senate Committee
Endorse Liberty
Every Republican is Crucial PAC
Facebook Inc. PAC
GOProud
Hoover Institution Board of Overseers
Human Rights Foundation
The Independent Institute Board of Directors
John McCain 2008
Marijuana Policy Project
Oslo Freedom Forum
Pacific Research Institute Board of Directors
Prosperity PAC
Rand Paul for US Senate 2010
Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign Committee
Ryan for Congress
Seasteading Institute
SENS Foundation
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board (2006-)
Trump Transition Team Executive Committee
Trump Victory $250,000 (6-Oct-2016)
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Objectivists
Author of books:
The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus (1998, with David O. Sacks)
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