Peter Thiel is one of the most influential entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and one of the key figures in the development of the global digital economy.
Born in 1967 in Frankfurt, Germany, he immigrated to the United States during his childhood and trained at Stanford University, where he studied philosophy and law.
His name began to gain notoriety in the late 90s, when he co-founded PayPal in 1998, one of the first large scale electronic payment platforms. The company was sold to eBay in 2002 for 1.5 billion dollars, which marked the beginning of a new phase for Thiel as an investor and a reference in the technological world
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After that success, he became a central figure in the so-called “PayPal mafia”, a group of entrepreneurs that later promoted or financed some of the most important companies
in the technology sector.In 2003, he founded Palantir Technologies, a company specialized in mass data analysis and artificial intelligence, used by both governments and private companies. The firm stood out for its link with security and intelligence agencies, which placed Thiel at the center of the debate on technology, surveillance and
