Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal in 1998, was Facebook's first outside investor in 2004, co-founded Palantir in 2003, and founded the Founders Fund — becoming one of the most influential figures in Silicon Valley ideology and venture capital. Born in Frankfurt in 1967 and raised in the US, Thiel earned a philosophy degree and law degree from Stanford before co-founding PayPal. His book Zero to One — drawn from a Stanford course on startups — became one of the most-read texts in the startup world, arguing that true entrepreneurship means creating something genuinely new rather than incrementally improving existing businesses.
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