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NEWS ABOUT: Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel stories: 2 news summaries

Gay Plays
Well for Maverick VC

So says Valleywag about contrarian
PayPal founder Thiel

Dec 20, 07 12:18 PM CST
(Newser) - In Silicon Valley, where "like funds like," Valleywag thinks it's important to note that Peter Thiel, "the smartest VC in the world, is gay." Why mention it? Thiel's Founders Fund, which just raised a $220 million financing round, could reinvent the way entrepreneurs get paid, and... More »

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Facebook • investments • venture capital • PayPal • Peter Thiel

 Inside the 'PayPal Mafia'

Company's first generation behind $30 billion of cutting edge companies

Nov 15, 07 4:55 AM CST
(Newser) - They may be the most brilliantly successful—or luckiest—or both—small group of entrepreneurs in history: PayPal alumni who, like founders Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, left the company to create $30 billion worth of innovation: YouTube, Facebook, Slide, Yelp, Digg, investment firms, philanthropies, solar-power companies, an electric car... More »

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YouTube • Silicon Valley • eBay • Facebook • PayPal • Peter Thiel • Max Levchin • Clarium Capital

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