Thursday, September 25, 2014

person: Peter Thiel (PayPal)

Peter Thiel's Contrarian Strategy @ Fortune Magazine (cover story)

"...In 1998, Thiel co-founded the pioneering e-commerce payments company PayPal, which was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. 

... PayPal people including at least seven now valued at more than $1 billion:"

  • Tesla TSLA -2.06% and SpaceX (co-founded by Elon Musk), 
  • LinkedIn LNKD -2.64% (Reid Hoffman), 
  • YouTube (Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim), [Google] 
  • Yelp YELP -3.49% (Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons), 
  • Yammer (David O. Sacks),  [Microsoft]
  • and the data-mining company Palantir (co-founded by Thiel himself in 2004).

Zero to One (book's web site)


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