As a venture capitalist and entrepreneur, he has been involved in some of the most dynamic companies to emerge from Silicon Valley over the past two decades. In 1998, Thiel made e-commerce easier, faster, and more secure by co-founding PayPal, defining a new era of fast and secure online commerce. He was the first outside investor and director at Facebook, and also launched Palantir Technologies, where he serves as chairman of the board of directors. Peter established and funds the Thiel Foundation, which promotes freedom in all its forms while working to advance technological progress and long-term thinking about the future.
Peter Thiel is 48 years old. He is a billionaire. He co-founded PayPal. He was an early investor in social media startups like Facebook, Yelp and LinkedIn. Peter is a hero - he worked with Hulk Hogan to take down Gawker Media, which is a despicable group of websites that attack anything conservative in slanderous and untruthful ways. Gawker founder Nick Denton has to declare personal bankruptcy as a result.
Peter is a very interesting guy and Silicon Valley are perplexed and not too happy at all that he is supporting Donald Trump for President of the United States - and we are happy to have him onboard.
Awful.
I understand the reasoning and it’s smart, but still...
I’ll have to say this convention is electric.
In 2012, the GOP convention resembled a funeral parlor.
It was drab and boring and lifeless.
And that didn’t help Mitt and Ryan.
We all knew it wasn’t gonna happen because people’s hearts weren’t in it.
They are now.