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hlthe2b

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9. I don't know how much Thiel still has invested in Paypal since it was sold in 2002...

Reply to sweetroxie (Original post)

Sat Feb 3, 2018, 03:13 PM

Feb 2018

Peter Thiel is a managing partner at Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies. He co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Elon Musk, and served as CEO until it was sold to eBay in 2002.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3064713/why-its-almost-impossible-to-boycott-peter-thiel

The above article suggests he no longer has an "affiliation"; whether that also means no investment is unclear to me.