With a fortune of $4.3 billion, according to Forbes, he’s difficult to pigeonhole - having gone from hedge-fund trader to Silicon Valley entrepreneur to data-mining surveillance capitalist - and almost impossible to understand. Thiel, who turns 54 next month, is one of the most cutthroat financiers of his generation. “I learned it from him,” Zuckerberg replied to Parker in an instant-message exchange. When Facebook’s first president, Sean Parker, first brought Thiel into the fold as an investor in 2004, he warned Zuckerberg against the financier’s “dirty tricks.”īut Zuckerberg said he found Thiel’s tactics inspiring, and would even use them to drive his friend and co-founder Eduardo Saverin out of Facebook the next year. “Zuckerberg, like Thiel, had stuck it in the eye of his politically correct peers when he’d hacked Harvard’s online directory to create FaceMash.” At college in the ’80s, Thiel had launched a conservative monthly called The Stanford Review, which fearlessly mocked liberals on campus. The two formed a mutual respect based on their iconoclastic ways. Though the Facebook CEO is often criticized for being robotic and unfeeling, Thiel saw the younger man’s indifference as “a sign of intelligence,” writes Max Chafkin in his book, “ The Contrarian” (Penguin Press), out now. PayPal founder Peter Thiel liked Mark Zuckerberg for the same reasons most people couldn’t stand him. Peter Thiel’s Palantir cuts around 2% of its workforce Silicon Valley Bank meltdown sparks contagion fears: ‘We found our Enron’ Peter Thiel risked losing $50M in SVB even as his firm sounded alarm
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