Profil Financier
Peter Thiel occupe actuellement le rang #61 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur finance & investissement). Fortune nette estimée : $37.7 B (+$736 M sur 24h).
Peter Thiel returns to the Midas List for a 16th time as the cofounder and general partner of venture fund Founders Fund.
Among its investments are Stripe and SpaceX, two of the most valuable unicorns in the world; Stripe was valued at $159 billion as of February 2026; SpaceX is planning to go public this summer at a valuation of $1.75 trillion.
He also cofounded CIA-backed big data startup Palantir, which went public via a direct listing in 2020.
Thiel, the first big investor in Facebook, has sold most of his stake in the social network; He left the board in 2022.
His Thiel Foundation gives a small number of young entrepreneurs $100,000 over two years to skip college and build their own company.
Thiel moved to Los Angeles from San Francisco in early 2018 after calling Silicon Valley a "one-party state."
Thiel found himself at the center of controversy after Forbes revealed in May 2016 that he was secretly funding lawsuits in an attempt to destroy Gawker Media.
Thiel, a Trump delegate in California, was one of the first outspoken Trump supporters in Silicon Valley in 2016.