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What Is It About Peter Thiel? | The New Yorker

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From 2021: The billionaire venture capitalist has fans and followers. What are they looking for?

Save this story Save this story Silicon Valley is not a milieu known for glamour and charisma. Still, Peter Thiel has cultivated a mystique. A billionaire several times over, Thiel was a co-founder of PayPal, the digital-payment service, and the first outside investor in Facebook. He went on to co-found Palantir, the data-intelligence company that has worked with the U.S. government. He has co-written a business best-seller, “ Zero to One ,” and launched a hedge fund; he now runs three venture-capital firms . But Thiel’s aura emanates not so much from these achievements as from a more general

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