Peter Thiel has amassed a net worth of over $15 billion. The self-proclaimed contrarian is one of the most prominent figures ...

Born in Kleinmachnow, Germany in 1966, he received his formal education at a training college for photography in Berlin. Thiel lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

While Thiel has compared California's economy, GDP-wise, to powerhouses like Germany and Japan, his most striking comparison ...

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Is there anything more influential than the invisible hand of Peter Thiel? Like the Valar in the J.R.R. Tolkien books he loves so much—he’s named six companies with terms drawn from the ...