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Co-founding PayPal launched the "PayPal Mafia" network that seeded companies including Facebook, SpaceX, and Stripe; Thiel compounded that influence through Founders Fund, the Thiel Fellowship, and *Zero to One*, reshaping how a generation builds technology companies.
Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal and Palantir Technologies and is Founder and Managing Partner of Founders Fund, with early investments in Facebook, SpaceX, LinkedIn, and Stripe.
He is the bestselling author of Zero to One and created the Thiel Fellowship, which provides $100,000 grants to young entrepreneurs; alumni include the founders of Ethereum, Figma, and Luminar.
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