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Founders Fund is an American venture capital fund formed in 2005 and based in San Francisco. The fund has roughly $12 billion in total assets under management as of 2023. [ 1 ] Founders Fund was the first institutional investor in Space Exploration Technologies ( SpaceX ) and Palantir Technologies , and an early investor in Facebook .
Peter Andreas Thiel (/ t iː l /; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. [1] [2] [3] A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook.
Backed by Founders Fund, Pirate Wires expanded with the hiring of several full-time reporters and, according to Business Insider, moved from Substack to "a splashy website reminiscent of Vice". [ 11 ] [ 8 ] The coverage of Pirate Wires has been described as "left-critical," and Solana has been called Thiel's protégé.
Founder of iGoogle Brian Singerman (born 1976 or 1977 [ 1 ] ) is an American venture capitalist and businessman. He is a partner emeritus at Founders Fund , a San Francisco-based venture capital firm with over $11 billion under management.
Kenneth Alan Howery (/ ˈ h aʊər i /; born November 4, 1975) is an American entrepreneur and diplomat.He is a co-founder of PayPal [1] and Founders Fund. [2] He served as the U.S. ambassador to Sweden from 2019 to 2021 under President Donald Trump.
Bruce Cannon Gibney (born 16 February 1976) [1] [2] is an American writer and venture capitalist.He was one of the first investors at PayPal, and went on to work for PayPal founder Peter Thiel's hedge fund Clarium and his venture capital company Founders Fund.
Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey created the Oculus Rift, one of the first consumer virtual reality headsets. In June 2014, Palmer Luckey, the creator of the virtual reality headset Oculus Rift, attended a retreat on Sonora Island, British Columbia, hosted by Founders Fund, an early Oculus investor. [10]
Fortress Investment Group LLC was founded in 1998 in New York City as a private equity firm in 1998 by Wesley R. Edens, a former partner at BlackRock; Rob Kauffman, a managing director at UBS; Randal A. Nardone, also a managing director at UBS; Michael Novogratz, a former partner at Goldman Sachs; and Pete Briger, also a former partner at Goldman Sachs.