Palantir Technologies
TheFiend
Elite
Index
1. Intro
2. Index
3. Palantir Overview
4. Lobbying Recipients
5. Revolving Door Assets
6. Lobbying Totals
7. Bills Lobbied
8. PayPal Mafia
9. Govt. Connections
10. Videos
11. Alex Karp | Palantir CEO
12. Peter Theil
13. Stephen Cohen
14. Joe Lonsdale
15. In-Q-Tel | CIA
16. US Intelligence Community
17. JD Vance
18. United Nations
19. World Economic Forum
20. Agenda 2030
21. Post | @NotoriousOutlawRecords
22. Palestine/Israel
23. David Sacks
24. Curtis Yarvin
25. Matt Danzeisen
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29. The Agenda | Full Documentary
30. DoD Directive 5240.01
31. Anduril Industries
32. Project Maven | DoD
33. Foundry System
34. Gotham System
35. Apollo System
36. Titan System
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2. Index
3. Palantir Overview
4. Lobbying Recipients
5. Revolving Door Assets
6. Lobbying Totals
7. Bills Lobbied
8. PayPal Mafia
9. Govt. Connections
10. Videos
11. Alex Karp | Palantir CEO
12. Peter Theil
13. Stephen Cohen
14. Joe Lonsdale
15. In-Q-Tel | CIA
16. US Intelligence Community
17. JD Vance
18. United Nations
19. World Economic Forum
20. Agenda 2030
21. Post | @NotoriousOutlawRecords
22. Palestine/Israel
23. David Sacks
24. Curtis Yarvin
25. Matt Danzeisen
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27.
28.
29. The Agenda | Full Documentary
30. DoD Directive 5240.01
31. Anduril Industries
32. Project Maven | DoD
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34. Gotham System
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36. Titan System
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TheFiend
Elite
Palantir Overview
2003
-Peter Thiel (Founder/Chairman)-Stephen Cohen (Founder/President)
-Alex Karp (Founder/CEO)
-Joe Lonsdale (Founder/Advisor/Stakeholder/8VC-Anduril)
-CIA (In-Q-Tel/seed funding)
2004
-Alex Poindexter (National Security Council)-Richard Perle (ex-chair Defense Policy Board)
2005
-CIA (Central Intelligence Agency/Client)2006
-Finance Events ×9 (undisclosed–7/5 total: $7,522,861)-Finance Events ×4 (7/5/06–12/8 total: $2,999,999)
-Reed Elsevier Ventures (Funding)
-CIA (Central Intelligence Agency/In-Q-Tel/Publicly listed equity stake)
2007
-Finance Events ×8 (undisclosed–9/26 total: $12,700,000)-Rivendell (DC office/David Worn)
-David Worn (Former DoD/MITRE)
2008
-Finance Events ×14 (undisclosed–3/5 total: $36,752,410)-USIC (United States Intelligence Community/Gotham)
2009
-Finance Events ×7 (3/25/09–4/14 total: $8,291,250)-Finance Events ×35 (11/17/09–11/30 total: $34,989,261)
-JPMorganChase (First private client)
-Peter Cavicchia III (JPMorgan/'Metropolis'/employee spying)
-Frank Bisignano (CEO/First Data Corp/data-Peter Cavicchia)
2010
-Finance Events ×39 (11/30/09–7/7 total: $55,069,242)-US Govt (accounts for 70% of business)
-Private Institutions (account for 30% of business)
-Medicare (Contract)
-Medicaid (Contract)
-Capgemini (Partnership)
-Founders Fund (Invests)
-Youniversity Ventures (Invests)
-Glynn Capital (Invests)
-Ulu Ventures (Miriam Rivera/Invests)
-Jeremy Stoppleman (Invests)
-Ben Ling (Invests)
-RATB (Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board/Client)
-TRC (Thomson Reuters Corporation/Partnership)
-Hunton & Williams LLP (WikiLeaks/The Plan)
-John Braux (Recruited fmr Senator/lobby asset)
-Trent Lott (Recruited fmr Senator/lobby asset)
2011
-Finance Events ×6 (4/20/11–5/5 total: $50,000,000)-Finance Events ×2 (8/23/11–9/7 total: $68,000,000)
-HBGary Federal (WikiLeaks/The Plan)
-Berico Technologies (WikiLeaks/The Plan)
-Bank of America (WikiLeaks/The Plan)
-JD Vance (Connects with Theil)
-WEF (Recognized as Technology Pioneer)
2012
-Finance Events ×2 (5/1/12–5/16 total: $56,130,202)-NZDF (NZ Defense Force/Client)
-NOPD (New Orleans PD/Partnership)
2013
-Finance Events ×15 (9/12/13–9/27 total: $196,500,204)-Finance Event ×1 (11/20/13–12/5 total: $57,504,320)
-Finance Events ×2 (12/5/13–12/10 total: $50,003,697)
-Finance Events ×8 (12/10/13–12/24 total: $70,005,891)
-Voicegem (Acquisition)
-CIA (Central Intelligence Agency/Client)
-DHS (Department of Homeland Security/Client)
-NSA (National Security Agency/Client)
-FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation/Client)
-CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Client)
-IRS (Internal Revenue Service/Client)
-USMC (US Marine Corps/Client)
-USAF (US Air Force/Client)
-USSOC (US Special Operations Command/Client)
-USMA (US Military Academy/Client)
-JI-TDO (Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Org/Client)
-RATB (Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board/Client)
-NCMEC (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children/Client)
-NCRIC (Northern California Regional Intelligence Center/Client)
2014
-Finance Events ×29 (6/28/13–2/14 total: $111,306,601)-Finance Events ×20 (12/29/13–2/14 total: $101,551,267)
-Poptip (Social Media data tech startup/Acquisition)
-Propeller (Mobile app tech startup/Acquisition)
-CIA (Central Intelligence Agency/Client)
-ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement/Partnership)
-Ken Langone (KSO-Order of St. Gregory the Great/Invests)
-Stanley Druckenmiller (Quantum Fund-Soros/Invests)
-TGM (Tiger Global Management/Invests)
-Founders Fund (Peter Thiel/Invests)
-First Data (Credit-card analytics/'Insightics')
2015
-FT Technologies (Retail data analytics/Acquisition)-Eoin Hayes (Irish politician/fmr employee/Invests)
-IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency/Client)
2016
-Kimono Labs, Inc (Web Browser Tools/Acquisition)-Credit Suisse (Partnership)
-Signac (Co-founded with Credit Suisse)
-Silk (Data visualization startup/Acquisition)
-Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (USNSA)
-DoD (Department of Defense/Client/Google's Project Maven)
2017
-Merck (Partnership)-Trump (Southern border....)
-German state police in Hesse (Client)
-Europol (Client)
-Danish POL-INTEL (Client)
2018
-2019
-RATB (Recovery Accountability & Transparency Board/Client)-DoD (Department of Defense/Client/Takes over Project Maven)
-NIH (National Institutes of Health/Client)
-NCCC (National Covid Cohort Collaborative/Client)
-NIH/FASEB ('Foundry' wins NIH/FASEB Dataworks Grand Prize)
-Polaris Project (Client)
-CDC (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention/Client)
-NCMEC (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children/Client)
-Team Rubicon (Client)
-WFP (World Food Program/Client)
2020
-FDA (Food and Drug Administration/Client/Covid-19/'Tiberius')-NHS England (National Health Services/Client/Covid-19)
-HHS (US Health & Human Services/'Project Now'/Covid-19)
2021
-IBM (IBM Quantum Computing/Partnership)-AWS (Amazon Web Services/Partnership)
-Babylon Health (Stake)
-BlackSky Holdings, Inc. (Partnership)
2022
-Microsoft (Microsoft Azure Government Clouds/Partnership)-UK Homes for Ukraine program ('Foundry' contract)
-Indra Joshi (NHS England's former AI chief/Recruited)
2023
-NHS England (Federated Data Platform/7 year contract)-AIP (Artificial Intelligence Platform/Launched)
-Ukraine Military (Client/'Skykit')
-Merck KDaA (Client/'Foundry')
-Airbus (Client/'Foundry')
-Ferrari (Client/'Foundry')
-Info Warfare Monitor (Partner/Ghostnet & Shadow Net)
-Jamie Fly (Recruted as CEO senior counselor)
2024
-'Trump Trade' (Controversy)-IDF (Israeli Defense Force/Partnership)
-Archer Aviation (Client)
2025
-Elon Musk (DOGE/Client)-Trump ('Big Beautiful Bill'/Client)
-ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement/Client)
-NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization/Client/'Maven')
-TWG Global (Partnership)
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Lobbying Recipients
-Kamala Harris | $123,424
-Ryan Patt | $49,513
-Adam Smith | $28,100
-Maggie Goodlander | $24,000
-Jason Crow | $23,500
-John Hickenlooper | $21,750
-Martin Heinrich | $21,650
-Josh Riley | $20,251
-Ro Khanna | $16,500
-Peter Dixon | $13,900
-Jon Tester | $12,752
-Maria Cantwell | $11,600
-Elissa Slotkin | $10,410
-Ruben Gallego | $10,194
-Adam Schiff | $10,000
-Jacky Rosen | $9,980
-Chris Coons | $7,600
-Josh Gottheimer | $7,600
-Richie Torres | $7,100
-Catherine Cortez Masto | $6,641
-John Fetterman | $6,618
-Sam T Liccardo | $6,600
-Raja Krishnamoorthi | $6,600
-Richard Blumenthal | $6,600
-Don Beyer | $5,000
-Gabe Amo | $4,375
-Christopher S Murphy | $4,050
-Will Rollins | $3,999
-George Whitesides | $3,800
-Bob Casey | $3,720
-Adam Gray | $3,700
-Derek Tran | $3,700
-Rudy Salas | $3,700
-Andei Cherny | $3,300
-Jennifer Wexton | $3,300
-Joe Manchin | $3,300
-Mark Warner | $3,000
-Hakeem Jeffries | $2,500
-Jom Himes | $2,500
-Andy Kim | $2,060
-Shomari Figures | $2,000
-Joe Simitian | $2,000
-Colin Alfred | $1,900
-Sherrod Brown | $1,830
-Don Samuels | $1,800
-Suhas Subramanyan | $1,502
-Maxine Dexter | $1,500
-Brittany Pettersen | $1,500
-Shri Thanedar | $1,250
-Elizabeth Warren | $1,193
-Mary Peltola | $1,015
-Eric Sorensen | $1,003
-Wesley Bell | $1,000
-Sheldon Whitehouse | $1,000
-George Latimer | $1,000
-Diana DeGette | $833
-Tammy Baldwin | $792
-Kyle Kilbourn | $750
-Pete Aguilar | $750
-Gabe Vasquez | $513
-Susie Lee | $503
-Lanon Baccam | $501
-Mondaire Jones | $501
-Aditya Pai | $500
-Jared Moskowitz | $500
-Josh Harder | $500
-Nikki Budzinski | $500
-Patty Murray | $500
-Zak Malamed | $500
-Krystie Kaul | $500
-Steven Horsford | $500
-Greg Stanton | $500
-Will Jawando | $350
-Adam Frisch | $275
-Rashida Tlaib | $250
-Angela Alsobrooks | $235
-Cori Bush | $200
-Debbie Mucarsei-Powell | $200
-Dean Phillips | $100
-Jasmine Crockett | $100
-Mikie Sherrill | $100
-Isaiah Martin | $100
-Mirianne Williamson | $90
-Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez | $63
-Yadira Caraveo | $63
-Lucia Baez-Geller | $54
-Jon Ossoff | $50
-Nick Melvoin | $50
-Johnathan Nez | $50
-Lucas Kunce | $40
-Gloria Johnson | $30
-Abigail Spanberger | $25
-Jamaal Bowman | $25
-Yevgeny 'Eugene' Vindman | $25
-Mike Levin | $25
-Tom Suozzi | $25
-Julie Lythcott-Haims | $20
-Matt Collier | $20
-Ike McCorkie | $15
-Emillia Sykes | $13
-Susan Wild | $13
-Greg Landsman | $13
-Jahana Hayes | $13
-Lisa Blunt-Rochester | $12
-Mark Kelly | $10
-Maggie Hassan | $5
-Ben Ray Lujan | $5
-Kevin Van Ostern | $5
-Matt Cartwright | $3
-Chris Pappas | $3
-Andrea Salinas | $3
-Harry Dunn | $1
-Tim Kaine | -$140
-Katie Porter | -$240
-Vanessa Fajans-Turner | -$5,800
-Ryan Patt | $49,513
-Adam Smith | $28,100
-Maggie Goodlander | $24,000
-Jason Crow | $23,500
-John Hickenlooper | $21,750
-Martin Heinrich | $21,650
-Josh Riley | $20,251
-Ro Khanna | $16,500
-Peter Dixon | $13,900
-Jon Tester | $12,752
-Maria Cantwell | $11,600
-Elissa Slotkin | $10,410
-Ruben Gallego | $10,194
-Adam Schiff | $10,000
-Jacky Rosen | $9,980
-Chris Coons | $7,600
-Josh Gottheimer | $7,600
-Richie Torres | $7,100
-Catherine Cortez Masto | $6,641
-John Fetterman | $6,618
-Sam T Liccardo | $6,600
-Raja Krishnamoorthi | $6,600
-Richard Blumenthal | $6,600
-Don Beyer | $5,000
-Gabe Amo | $4,375
-Christopher S Murphy | $4,050
-Will Rollins | $3,999
-George Whitesides | $3,800
-Bob Casey | $3,720
-Adam Gray | $3,700
-Derek Tran | $3,700
-Rudy Salas | $3,700
-Andei Cherny | $3,300
-Jennifer Wexton | $3,300
-Joe Manchin | $3,300
-Mark Warner | $3,000
-Hakeem Jeffries | $2,500
-Jom Himes | $2,500
-Andy Kim | $2,060
-Shomari Figures | $2,000
-Joe Simitian | $2,000
-Colin Alfred | $1,900
-Sherrod Brown | $1,830
-Don Samuels | $1,800
-Suhas Subramanyan | $1,502
-Maxine Dexter | $1,500
-Brittany Pettersen | $1,500
-Shri Thanedar | $1,250
-Elizabeth Warren | $1,193
-Mary Peltola | $1,015
-Eric Sorensen | $1,003
-Wesley Bell | $1,000
-Sheldon Whitehouse | $1,000
-George Latimer | $1,000
-Diana DeGette | $833
-Tammy Baldwin | $792
-Kyle Kilbourn | $750
-Pete Aguilar | $750
-Gabe Vasquez | $513
-Susie Lee | $503
-Lanon Baccam | $501
-Mondaire Jones | $501
-Aditya Pai | $500
-Jared Moskowitz | $500
-Josh Harder | $500
-Nikki Budzinski | $500
-Patty Murray | $500
-Zak Malamed | $500
-Krystie Kaul | $500
-Steven Horsford | $500
-Greg Stanton | $500
-Will Jawando | $350
-Adam Frisch | $275
-Rashida Tlaib | $250
-Angela Alsobrooks | $235
-Cori Bush | $200
-Debbie Mucarsei-Powell | $200
-Dean Phillips | $100
-Jasmine Crockett | $100
-Mikie Sherrill | $100
-Isaiah Martin | $100
-Mirianne Williamson | $90
-Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez | $63
-Yadira Caraveo | $63
-Lucia Baez-Geller | $54
-Jon Ossoff | $50
-Nick Melvoin | $50
-Johnathan Nez | $50
-Lucas Kunce | $40
-Gloria Johnson | $30
-Abigail Spanberger | $25
-Jamaal Bowman | $25
-Yevgeny 'Eugene' Vindman | $25
-Mike Levin | $25
-Tom Suozzi | $25
-Julie Lythcott-Haims | $20
-Matt Collier | $20
-Ike McCorkie | $15
-Emillia Sykes | $13
-Susan Wild | $13
-Greg Landsman | $13
-Jahana Hayes | $13
-Lisa Blunt-Rochester | $12
-Mark Kelly | $10
-Maggie Hassan | $5
-Ben Ray Lujan | $5
-Kevin Van Ostern | $5
-Matt Cartwright | $3
-Chris Pappas | $3
-Andrea Salinas | $3
-Harry Dunn | $1
-Tim Kaine | -$140
-Katie Porter | -$240
-Vanessa Fajans-Turner | -$5,800
-Nikki Haley | $28,830
-Mike Gallagher | $23,100
-John Corryn | $18,685
-Mike D Rogers | $15,900
-Rob Whitman | $15,401
-Ken Calvert | $14,900
-Dave McCormick | $14,799
-Donald Trump | $14,005
-Joni Ernst | $13,200
-Bill Cassidy | $9,900
-Mike Lawler | $9,900
-Mike Garcia | $8,300
-Roger Wicker | $7,485
-John Barrasso | $7,084
-Deb Fischer | $7,084
-Lindsey Graham | $6,600
-Ted Cruz | $6,600
-Thom Tillis | $6,600
-Jay Obernolte | $6,600
-Tom Emmer | $6,600
-Marco Rubio | $6,600
-Tom Cotton | $6,600
-John Thune | $6,600
-Dan Sullivan | $6,600
-Lisa Murkowski | $6,600
-Elise Stefanik | $6,600
-Brian Fitzpatrick | $6,600
-Jake Ellzey | $3,300
-Ron DeSantis | $3,300
-Steve Womack | $3,300
-Jim Justice | $3,300
-Michael Waltz | $3,300
-Michael R Turner | $2,500
-Darin LaHood | $2,500
-Michelle Steel | $2,000
-Chris Christie | $1,302
-Nicole Malliotakis | $1,000
-Brian Jack | $1,000
-Kevin Cramer | $599
-Marsha Blackburn | $599
-Larry Hogan | $599
-Jim Banks | $599
-Kari Lake | $599
-Nella Louise Domenici | $599
-Eric Hovde | $599
-Josh Hawley | $599
-Tim Sheehy | $599
-Rick Scott | $599
-Pete Rickets | $578
-Darnell Essa | $500
-Bernie Moreno | $500
-Max Engling | $500
-Mario Diaz-Balart | $500
-John McGuire | $500
-Marc Molinaro | $200
-Brandon Gill | $52
-Will Hurd | $52
-Tim Scott | $52
-W. Asa Hutchinson | $50
-Vivek Ramaswamy | $31
-Daniel Norber | $2
-Ben Sasse | -$2,900
-Mike Gallagher | $23,100
-John Corryn | $18,685
-Mike D Rogers | $15,900
-Rob Whitman | $15,401
-Ken Calvert | $14,900
-Dave McCormick | $14,799
-Donald Trump | $14,005
-Joni Ernst | $13,200
-Bill Cassidy | $9,900
-Mike Lawler | $9,900
-Mike Garcia | $8,300
-Roger Wicker | $7,485
-John Barrasso | $7,084
-Deb Fischer | $7,084
-Lindsey Graham | $6,600
-Ted Cruz | $6,600
-Thom Tillis | $6,600
-Jay Obernolte | $6,600
-Tom Emmer | $6,600
-Marco Rubio | $6,600
-Tom Cotton | $6,600
-John Thune | $6,600
-Dan Sullivan | $6,600
-Lisa Murkowski | $6,600
-Elise Stefanik | $6,600
-Brian Fitzpatrick | $6,600
-Jake Ellzey | $3,300
-Ron DeSantis | $3,300
-Steve Womack | $3,300
-Jim Justice | $3,300
-Michael Waltz | $3,300
-Michael R Turner | $2,500
-Darin LaHood | $2,500
-Michelle Steel | $2,000
-Chris Christie | $1,302
-Nicole Malliotakis | $1,000
-Brian Jack | $1,000
-Kevin Cramer | $599
-Marsha Blackburn | $599
-Larry Hogan | $599
-Jim Banks | $599
-Kari Lake | $599
-Nella Louise Domenici | $599
-Eric Hovde | $599
-Josh Hawley | $599
-Tim Sheehy | $599
-Rick Scott | $599
-Pete Rickets | $578
-Darnell Essa | $500
-Bernie Moreno | $500
-Max Engling | $500
-Mario Diaz-Balart | $500
-John McGuire | $500
-Marc Molinaro | $200
-Brandon Gill | $52
-Will Hurd | $52
-Tim Scott | $52
-W. Asa Hutchinson | $50
-Vivek Ramaswamy | $31
-Daniel Norber | $2
-Ben Sasse | -$2,900
-Kyrsten Sinema | $10,700
-Agnus King | $6,800
-Jill Stein | $15
-Agnus King | $6,800
-Jill Stein | $15
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Revolving Door Assets
Mike Gallagher
-former US Rep (R-Wisc.)
-former US Rep (R-Wisc.)
Machalagh Carr
-served as chief of staff to former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
-wife of Trump FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
-served as chief of staff to former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
-wife of Trump FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
Matthew Turpin
-served as the director of China for the National Security Council in the first Trump White House.
-senior China advisor to Trump’s then-commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross.
-Pentagon 2013–2017, advised the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on China issues.
-assisted with the Defense Innovation Initiative, a program aimed at developing technologies to sustain the U.S. military's competitive advantage.
-served as the director of China for the National Security Council in the first Trump White House.
-senior China advisor to Trump’s then-commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross.
-Pentagon 2013–2017, advised the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on China issues.
-assisted with the Defense Innovation Initiative, a program aimed at developing technologies to sustain the U.S. military's competitive advantage.
Wendy Anderson
-senior vice president of federal and national security.
-held a slew of top positions at the Defense Department during the Obama administration.
-including deputy chief of staff to then-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
-served as chief of staff to Obama’s commerce secretary, Penny Pritzker.
-worked as a staffer on the Senate Homeland Security Committee and as a Democratic Senate aide.
-served as a member of the Atlantic Council’s Commission on Defense Innovation Adoption, which named Palantir as one of its corporate sponsors, advocated for reducing bureaucratic barriers and creating new incentives for tech companies to do business with the Pentagon.
-co-authored an op-ed with fellow Atlantic Council commissioner Michèle Flournoy pushing the Defense Department to more rapidly adopt software systems outside its traditional acquisition process.
-senior vice president of federal and national security.
-held a slew of top positions at the Defense Department during the Obama administration.
-including deputy chief of staff to then-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
-served as chief of staff to Obama’s commerce secretary, Penny Pritzker.
-worked as a staffer on the Senate Homeland Security Committee and as a Democratic Senate aide.
-served as a member of the Atlantic Council’s Commission on Defense Innovation Adoption, which named Palantir as one of its corporate sponsors, advocated for reducing bureaucratic barriers and creating new incentives for tech companies to do business with the Pentagon.
-co-authored an op-ed with fellow Atlantic Council commissioner Michèle Flournoy pushing the Defense Department to more rapidly adopt software systems outside its traditional acquisition process.
Alexander Alden
-veteran of the first Trump administration who joined Palantir in 2021.
-served as a special assistant at the Pentagon from 2017–2018 before becoming senior director on Trump’s National Security Council, responsible for emerging technologies and defense policy.
-later moved to the Trump State Department, where he was tasked with strengthening EU-U.S. relations while “countering Chinese regional influence.”
-veteran of the first Trump administration who joined Palantir in 2021.
-served as a special assistant at the Pentagon from 2017–2018 before becoming senior director on Trump’s National Security Council, responsible for emerging technologies and defense policy.
-later moved to the Trump State Department, where he was tasked with strengthening EU-U.S. relations while “countering Chinese regional influence.”
Jamie Fly
-former aide to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Trump’s newly installed secretary of state.
-served as a foreign and national security affairs advisor to Rubio from 2013–2017 -served in the George W. Bush administration at both the Pentagon and National Security Council.
-former aide to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Trump’s newly installed secretary of state.
-served as a foreign and national security affairs advisor to Rubio from 2013–2017 -served in the George W. Bush administration at both the Pentagon and National Security Council.
Geof Kahn
-Central Intelligence Agency veteran who worked on the transition team for the first Trump administration, assisting then-Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) during his confirmation process to be CIA director.
-later served as senior adviser to Pompeo and the CIA’s chief operating officer.
-spent five years as policy director for the House Intelligence Committee from 2011–2017, including during the chairmanships of Republican Reps. Mike Rogers (Mich.) and Devin Nunes (Calif.).
-Central Intelligence Agency veteran who worked on the transition team for the first Trump administration, assisting then-Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) during his confirmation process to be CIA director.
-later served as senior adviser to Pompeo and the CIA’s chief operating officer.
-spent five years as policy director for the House Intelligence Committee from 2011–2017, including during the chairmanships of Republican Reps. Mike Rogers (Mich.) and Devin Nunes (Calif.).
Greg Little
-one of the first Pentagon officials to run CDAO.
-one of the first Pentagon officials to run CDAO.
David Spirk
-served as chief data officer at the Pentagon and contributed to the creation of CDAO.
-served as chief data officer at the Pentagon and contributed to the creation of CDAO.
Maura Thompson
-held various logistics positions at CDAO and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
-held various logistics positions at CDAO and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Trevor Austin
-worked as a Palantir engineer early in his career.
-worked as a Palantir engineer early in his career.
Will Thibeau
-worked as deployment strategist at Palantir.
-worked as deployment strategist at Palantir.
Joseph Larson
-headed AI policy and strategy at Palantir.
-joined the Pentagon in October 2016 as deputy chief of Project Maven.
-briefly worked for an AI startup after leaving the Pentagon and then took a job at Anduril.
-Another turn of the revolving door brought him back to the Pentagon as chief of Project Maven and later as a deputy chief of the newly created CDAO.
-He returned to Anduril as a senior vice president in March 2024.
-headed AI policy and strategy at Palantir.
-joined the Pentagon in October 2016 as deputy chief of Project Maven.
-briefly worked for an AI startup after leaving the Pentagon and then took a job at Anduril.
-Another turn of the revolving door brought him back to the Pentagon as chief of Project Maven and later as a deputy chief of the newly created CDAO.
-He returned to Anduril as a senior vice president in March 2024.
Allen Souza
-employed by Palantir last year (2024).
-veteran Republican congressional aide who served as national security advisor to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
-did a stint in the Trump National Security Council in 2020-21.
-in May 2024, Souza returned to Congress as a Senate Intelligence Committee staffer and oversight counsel.
-employed by Palantir last year (2024).
-veteran Republican congressional aide who served as national security advisor to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
-did a stint in the Trump National Security Council in 2020-21.
-in May 2024, Souza returned to Congress as a Senate Intelligence Committee staffer and oversight counsel.
Tyler Jensen
-served as an aide to Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.) when Smith was lead Democrat on the House Armed Services committee.
-served as an aide to Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.) when Smith was lead Democrat on the House Armed Services committee.
William Duhnke
-was a longtime Republican staff director for Senate committees including Appropriations and Intelligence. (Following a stint as a lobbyist, Duhnke is now back in Congress as a senior policy advisor to Speaker Johnson.)
-was a longtime Republican staff director for Senate committees including Appropriations and Intelligence. (Following a stint as a lobbyist, Duhnke is now back in Congress as a senior policy advisor to Speaker Johnson.)
Lobbyists have helped Palantir establish links with congressional leadership and key committees that are essential to its bottom line. But the company has also engaged in a softer form of influence building, creating a foundation to promote policy ideas that serve to advance its Washington agenda.
The company quietly launched the Palantir Foundation for Defense Policy and International Affairs in 2023. The organization, which was granted non-profit tax status in March 2024, describes itself as non-partisan and says it plans to sponsor academic research, fellowships, and conferences on national security issues.
The foundation’s inaugural Atlantic & Pacific Forum, held in May 2024, focused on the role of AI in warfare—a topic central to Palantir’s product offerings. The event, co-sponsored by Foreign Policy magazine, featured a number of speakers with defense tech experience. They included Linda Lourie, who served in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2021 to 2022 and previously worked at the Pentagon in a variety of roles including general counsel of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). The DIU is devoted to accelerating the military's adoption of commercial technology. Another speaker, Nina Kollars, served as a special adviser to the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering in the Biden administration.
Lourie and Kollars did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The Palantir foundation also publishes a journal about technology and national security called The Republic. The first issue, released in July 2024, included a piece by Palantir’s Jacob Helberg that argues that “AI is the pivotal technology in U.S.-China competition” and “the U.S. government and Silicon Valley must seriously partner to protect democracy from the autocrats looking to dismantle it.”
By funding conferences, academic papers, and policy commentary, Palantir can create an echo chamber effect around ideas that are favorable to its business interests.
The foundation’s plans for fellowships also appear to be a part of this strategy. While its website gives only a bare-bones description of the fellowship program, such initiatives can be powerful tools for influencing government. As TTP has previously reported, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt funded a program that placed dozens of fellows in influential Biden administration posts that often overlap with his private financial interests.
Schmidt is closely tied to Peter Thiel and Palantir. Both Schmidt and Thiel back America’s Frontier Fund (AFF), a nonprofit venture fund that invests in Palantir and other U.S. defense tech companies. (An AFF representative once reportedly boasted that war with China would be good for the fund's portfolio.) Schmidt has urged the U.S. government to invest more in AI research and development to compete with China, without mentioning his personal investments in AI startups that could benefit from such R&D.
The company quietly launched the Palantir Foundation for Defense Policy and International Affairs in 2023. The organization, which was granted non-profit tax status in March 2024, describes itself as non-partisan and says it plans to sponsor academic research, fellowships, and conferences on national security issues.
The foundation’s inaugural Atlantic & Pacific Forum, held in May 2024, focused on the role of AI in warfare—a topic central to Palantir’s product offerings. The event, co-sponsored by Foreign Policy magazine, featured a number of speakers with defense tech experience. They included Linda Lourie, who served in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2021 to 2022 and previously worked at the Pentagon in a variety of roles including general counsel of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). The DIU is devoted to accelerating the military's adoption of commercial technology. Another speaker, Nina Kollars, served as a special adviser to the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering in the Biden administration.
Lourie and Kollars did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The Palantir foundation also publishes a journal about technology and national security called The Republic. The first issue, released in July 2024, included a piece by Palantir’s Jacob Helberg that argues that “AI is the pivotal technology in U.S.-China competition” and “the U.S. government and Silicon Valley must seriously partner to protect democracy from the autocrats looking to dismantle it.”
By funding conferences, academic papers, and policy commentary, Palantir can create an echo chamber effect around ideas that are favorable to its business interests.
The foundation’s plans for fellowships also appear to be a part of this strategy. While its website gives only a bare-bones description of the fellowship program, such initiatives can be powerful tools for influencing government. As TTP has previously reported, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt funded a program that placed dozens of fellows in influential Biden administration posts that often overlap with his private financial interests.
Schmidt is closely tied to Peter Thiel and Palantir. Both Schmidt and Thiel back America’s Frontier Fund (AFF), a nonprofit venture fund that invests in Palantir and other U.S. defense tech companies. (An AFF representative once reportedly boasted that war with China would be good for the fund's portfolio.) Schmidt has urged the U.S. government to invest more in AI research and development to compete with China, without mentioning his personal investments in AI startups that could benefit from such R&D.
Jacob Helberg
-senior advisor to Palantir CEO Alex Karp.
-major Trump campaign donor.
-served on a congressional advisory panel that recommended the U.S. launch a “Manhattan Project-like” program to beat China on AI.
-senior advisor to Palantir CEO Alex Karp.
-major Trump campaign donor.
-served on a congressional advisory panel that recommended the U.S. launch a “Manhattan Project-like” program to beat China on AI.
Gregory Barbaccia
-former Palantir head of intelligence & investigations.
-former Palantir head of intelligence & investigations.
Shyam Sankar
-Palantir's chief technology officer.
-Palantir's chief technology officer.
Palantir has seen its shares soar in recent weeks, boosted by strong financial results and expectations that the company will benefit from the second Trump administration. The company’s key government contracts include deals to provide AI targeting technology (Maven Smart System) to the U.S. military and a battle management system (TITAN) to the U.S. Army.
To keep those government sales flowing, Palantir is building an extensive influence network in Washington, following a strategy honed by Big Tech and other corporate giants. The company has hired a slew of well-connected players from Congress and federal agencies, ramped up lobbying activity, and created a foundation to bankroll policy-shaping research, conferences, and public commentary. This effort, which is mostly taking place below the radar, reflects Palantir’s ambitions to establish itself as a permanent player in the U.S. defense-intelligence sector in the Trump years—and beyond.
To keep those government sales flowing, Palantir is building an extensive influence network in Washington, following a strategy honed by Big Tech and other corporate giants. The company has hired a slew of well-connected players from Congress and federal agencies, ramped up lobbying activity, and created a foundation to bankroll policy-shaping research, conferences, and public commentary. This effort, which is mostly taking place below the radar, reflects Palantir’s ambitions to establish itself as a permanent player in the U.S. defense-intelligence sector in the Trump years—and beyond.
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Bills Lobbied
H.R.6610 | Passport System Reform and Backlog Prevention Act
•Congress: 118
•Reports/Issues: 5
H.R.8070 | Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025
•Congress: 118
•Reports/Issues: 4
H.R.2882 | Udall Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2023 (aka: Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024)
•Congress: 118
•Reports/Issues: 2
H.R.6126 | Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024
•Congress: 118
•Reports/Issues: 2
S.2226 | National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024
•Congress: 118
•Reports/Issues: 2
H.R.4366 | Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 (aka: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024)
•Congress: 118
•Reports/Issues: 2
H.R.815 | RELIEVE Act (aka: Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes)
•Congress: 118
•Reports/Issues: 1
•Congress: 118
•Reports/Issues: 5
H.R.8070 | Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025
•Congress: 118
•Reports/Issues: 4
H.R.2882 | Udall Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2023 (aka: Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024)
•Congress: 118
•Reports/Issues: 2
H.R.6126 | Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024
•Congress: 118
•Reports/Issues: 2
S.2226 | National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024
•Congress: 118
•Reports/Issues: 2
H.R.4366 | Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 (aka: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024)
•Congress: 118
•Reports/Issues: 2
H.R.815 | RELIEVE Act (aka: Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes)
•Congress: 118
•Reports/Issues: 1
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Govt. Connections
President
-Donald Trump | 2017–2021
Vice President
-Mike Pence | 2017–2021
Secretary of State
-Rex Tillerson | 2017–2018
--Mike Pompeo | 2018–2021
Secretary of the Treasury
-Steven Mnuchin | 2017–2021
Secretary of Defense
-Jim Mattis | 2017–2019
--Mark Esper | 2019–2020
---Christopher C. Miller (acting) | 2020–2021
Attorney General
-Jeff Sessions | 2017–2018
--William Barr | 2019–2020
---Jeffrey A. Rosen (acting) | 2020–2021
Secretary of the Interior
-Ryan Zinke | 2017–2019
--David Bernhardt | 2019–2021
Secretary of Agriculture
-Sonny Perdue | 2017–2021
Secretary of Commerce
-Wilbur Ross | 2017–2021
Secretary of Labor
-Alexander Acosta | 2017–2019
--Eugene Scalia | 2019–2021
Secretary of Health and
Human Services
-Tom Price | 2017
--Alex Azar | 2018–2021
Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development
-Ben Carson | 2017–2021
Secretary of Transportation
-Elaine Chao | 2017–2021
Secretary of Energy
-Rick Perry | 2017–2019
--Dan Brouillette | 2019–2021
Secretary of Education
-Betsy DeVos | 2017–2021
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
-David Shulkin | 2017–2018
--Robert Wilkie | 2018–2021
Secretary of Homeland Security
-John F. Kelly | 2017
--Kirstjen Nielsen | 2017–2019
---Chad Wolf (acting) | 2019–2021
Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency
-Scott Pruitt | 2017–2018
--Andrew Wheeler | 2018–2021
Director of the Office of
Management and Budget
-Mick Mulvaney | 2017–2020
--Russell Vought | 2020–2021
Director of National Intelligence
-Dan Coats | 2017–2019
--John Ratcliffe | 2020–2021
Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency
-Mike Pompeo | 2017–2018
--Gina Haspel | 2018–2021
United States Trade Representative
-Robert Lighthizer | 2017–2021
Ambassador to the United Nations
-Nikki Haley | 2017–2018
--Kelly Craft* | 2019–2021
Administrator of the
Small Business Administration
-Linda McMahon | 2017–2019
--Jovita Carranza | 2020–2021
Chief of Staff
-Reince Priebus | 2017
--John F. Kelly | 2017–2019
---Mark Meadows | 2020–2021
*Lowered to non-cabinet position following Haley's exit in 2018
-Donald Trump | 2017–2021
Vice President
-Mike Pence | 2017–2021
Secretary of State
-Rex Tillerson | 2017–2018
--Mike Pompeo | 2018–2021
Secretary of the Treasury
-Steven Mnuchin | 2017–2021
Secretary of Defense
-Jim Mattis | 2017–2019
--Mark Esper | 2019–2020
---Christopher C. Miller (acting) | 2020–2021
Attorney General
-Jeff Sessions | 2017–2018
--William Barr | 2019–2020
---Jeffrey A. Rosen (acting) | 2020–2021
Secretary of the Interior
-Ryan Zinke | 2017–2019
--David Bernhardt | 2019–2021
Secretary of Agriculture
-Sonny Perdue | 2017–2021
Secretary of Commerce
-Wilbur Ross | 2017–2021
Secretary of Labor
-Alexander Acosta | 2017–2019
--Eugene Scalia | 2019–2021
Secretary of Health and
Human Services
-Tom Price | 2017
--Alex Azar | 2018–2021
Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development
-Ben Carson | 2017–2021
Secretary of Transportation
-Elaine Chao | 2017–2021
Secretary of Energy
-Rick Perry | 2017–2019
--Dan Brouillette | 2019–2021
Secretary of Education
-Betsy DeVos | 2017–2021
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
-David Shulkin | 2017–2018
--Robert Wilkie | 2018–2021
Secretary of Homeland Security
-John F. Kelly | 2017
--Kirstjen Nielsen | 2017–2019
---Chad Wolf (acting) | 2019–2021
Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency
-Scott Pruitt | 2017–2018
--Andrew Wheeler | 2018–2021
Director of the Office of
Management and Budget
-Mick Mulvaney | 2017–2020
--Russell Vought | 2020–2021
Director of National Intelligence
-Dan Coats | 2017–2019
--John Ratcliffe | 2020–2021
Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency
-Mike Pompeo | 2017–2018
--Gina Haspel | 2018–2021
United States Trade Representative
-Robert Lighthizer | 2017–2021
Ambassador to the United Nations
-Nikki Haley | 2017–2018
--Kelly Craft* | 2019–2021
Administrator of the
Small Business Administration
-Linda McMahon | 2017–2019
--Jovita Carranza | 2020–2021
Chief of Staff
-Reince Priebus | 2017
--John F. Kelly | 2017–2019
---Mark Meadows | 2020–2021
*Lowered to non-cabinet position following Haley's exit in 2018
President
-Donald Trump | 2025–present
Vice President
-JD Vance | 2025–present
Secretary of State
-Marco Rubio | 2025–present
Secretary of the Treasury
-Scott Bessent | 2025–present
Secretary of Defense
-Pete Hegseth | 2025–present
Attorney General
-Pam Bondi | 2025–present
Secretary of the Interior
-Doug Burgum | 2025–present
Secretary of Agriculture
-Brooke Rollins | 2025–present
Secretary of Commerce
-Howard Lutnick | 2025–present
Secretary of Labor
-Lori Chavez-DeRemer | 2025–present
Secretary of Health and
Human Services
-Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | 2025–present
Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development
-Scott Turner | 2025–present
Secretary of Transportation
-Sean Duffy | 2025–present
Secretary of Energy
-Chris Wright | 2025–present
Secretary of Education
-Linda McMahon | 2025–present
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
-Doug Collins | 2025–present
Secretary of Homeland Security
-Kristi Noem | 2025–present
Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency
-Lee Zeldin | 2025–present
Director of the Office of
Management and Budget
-Russell Vought | 2025–present
Director of National Intelligence
-Tulsi Gabbard | 2025–present
Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency
-John Ratcliffe | 2025–present
United States Trade Representative
-Jamieson Greer | 2025–present
Administrator of the Small Business Administration
-Kelly Loeffler | 2025–present
Chief of Staff
-Susie Wiles | 2025–present
-Donald Trump | 2025–present
Vice President
-JD Vance | 2025–present
Secretary of State
-Marco Rubio | 2025–present
Secretary of the Treasury
-Scott Bessent | 2025–present
Secretary of Defense
-Pete Hegseth | 2025–present
Attorney General
-Pam Bondi | 2025–present
Secretary of the Interior
-Doug Burgum | 2025–present
Secretary of Agriculture
-Brooke Rollins | 2025–present
Secretary of Commerce
-Howard Lutnick | 2025–present
Secretary of Labor
-Lori Chavez-DeRemer | 2025–present
Secretary of Health and
Human Services
-Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | 2025–present
Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development
-Scott Turner | 2025–present
Secretary of Transportation
-Sean Duffy | 2025–present
Secretary of Energy
-Chris Wright | 2025–present
Secretary of Education
-Linda McMahon | 2025–present
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
-Doug Collins | 2025–present
Secretary of Homeland Security
-Kristi Noem | 2025–present
Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency
-Lee Zeldin | 2025–present
Director of the Office of
Management and Budget
-Russell Vought | 2025–present
Director of National Intelligence
-Tulsi Gabbard | 2025–present
Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency
-John Ratcliffe | 2025–present
United States Trade Representative
-Jamieson Greer | 2025–present
Administrator of the Small Business Administration
-Kelly Loeffler | 2025–present
Chief of Staff
-Susie Wiles | 2025–present
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Jewish—American businessman, co-founder and CEO of military software firm Palantir Technologies.
He began his career investing in startups and stocks, and co-founded Palantir with Peter Thiel in 2003.
By 2025, Time magazine named him in the Time 100 list of "the world's most influential people".
Born
-Alexander Caedmon Karp
-October 2, 1967
-New York City, New York, US
Education
-Haverford College (BA)
-Stanford University (JD)
-Goethe University (PhD)
Occupation
-Businessman
Title
-Co-founder & CEO, Palantir Technologies
-Alexander Caedmon Karp
-October 2, 1967
-New York City, New York, US
Education
-Haverford College (BA)
-Stanford University (JD)
-Goethe University (PhD)
Occupation
-Businessman
Title
-Co-founder & CEO, Palantir Technologies
During 2025, his net worth has at times exceeded $11 billion, ranking him among the wealthiest 300 people in the world by Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
-Born in New York City.
--Eldest of two sons.
---Raised in Philadelphia.
-Father: Robert Joseph Karp.
--Jewish clinical pediatrician.
-Mother: Leah Jaynes Karp.
--Black—American artist.
-Sibling: Oliver "Ben" Karp.
-Attended Central High School.
--Graduated¹⁹⁸⁵
---Struggled with dyslexia.
-Influenced by parents SJW activism.
--Wanted to be academic social theorist.
-Attended Haverford College.
--Earned B.A. in philosophy¹⁹⁸⁹.
-Enrolled at Stanford Law School.
--Earned a J.D. (Juris Doctor)¹⁹⁹².
---Met Peter Thiel while there.
-Completed undergraduate studies.
--Completed law school.
-Enrolled at Goethe Uni Frankfurt.
--Earned Ph.D. in neoclas soc theory²⁰⁰²
---Doc thesis supervised by Karola Brede.
----"Aggression in der Lebenswelt: Die Erweiterung des Parsonsschen Konzepts der Aggression durch die Beschreibung des Zusammenhangs von Jargon, Aggression und Kultur".
-----(Aggression in the Lifeworld: The Extension of Parsons' Concept of Aggression by Describing the Connection Between Jargon, Aggression, and Culture).
-Fluent in German & speaks French.
--Eldest of two sons.
---Raised in Philadelphia.
-Father: Robert Joseph Karp.
--Jewish clinical pediatrician.
-Mother: Leah Jaynes Karp.
--Black—American artist.
-Sibling: Oliver "Ben" Karp.
-Attended Central High School.
--Graduated¹⁹⁸⁵
---Struggled with dyslexia.
-Influenced by parents SJW activism.
--Wanted to be academic social theorist.
-Attended Haverford College.
--Earned B.A. in philosophy¹⁹⁸⁹.
-Enrolled at Stanford Law School.
--Earned a J.D. (Juris Doctor)¹⁹⁹².
---Met Peter Thiel while there.
-Completed undergraduate studies.
--Completed law school.
-Enrolled at Goethe Uni Frankfurt.
--Earned Ph.D. in neoclas soc theory²⁰⁰²
---Doc thesis supervised by Karola Brede.
----"Aggression in der Lebenswelt: Die Erweiterung des Parsonsschen Konzepts der Aggression durch die Beschreibung des Zusammenhangs von Jargon, Aggression und Kultur".
-----(Aggression in the Lifeworld: The Extension of Parsons' Concept of Aggression by Describing the Connection Between Jargon, Aggression, and Culture).
-Fluent in German & speaks French.
-Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt.
--Started as research associate.
-Gained inheritance from grandfather.
--Invested in startups & stocks.
---Founded Caedmon Group.
----London-based money managing firm.
-Co-founded Palatir Technologies²⁰⁰³.
--As Chief Executive Officer.
--With Stanford classmate Peter Thiel.
-NY Times rank highest-paid pty CEO²⁰²⁰
--Same year Palantir went public.
---Compensation $1.1 billion.
-The Economist rank CEO of the Year²⁰²⁴.
--Highest-paid U.S. pty CEO²⁰²⁴.
---Annual comp almost $6.8 million.
-Forbes 1143rd World's Bills List²⁰²⁴.
--Net worth $2.9 billion²⁰²⁴.
---Net worth increased several billion²⁰²⁵.
----Exceeding US$11 billion.
-----Ranking among 300 wealthiest.
------Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List.
-------And Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
--Member of board of directors (2018–2020)
-BASF.
--Member of board of directors (until 2020).
-Bilderberg Meeting.
--Member of the steering committee.
-The Economist Group.
--Fmr member of the board of directors.
--Started as research associate.
-Gained inheritance from grandfather.
--Invested in startups & stocks.
---Founded Caedmon Group.
----London-based money managing firm.
-Co-founded Palatir Technologies²⁰⁰³.
--As Chief Executive Officer.
--With Stanford classmate Peter Thiel.
-NY Times rank highest-paid pty CEO²⁰²⁰
--Same year Palantir went public.
---Compensation $1.1 billion.
-The Economist rank CEO of the Year²⁰²⁴.
--Highest-paid U.S. pty CEO²⁰²⁴.
---Annual comp almost $6.8 million.
-Forbes 1143rd World's Bills List²⁰²⁴.
--Net worth $2.9 billion²⁰²⁴.
---Net worth increased several billion²⁰²⁵.
----Exceeding US$11 billion.
-----Ranking among 300 wealthiest.
------Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List.
-------And Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Board and advisory roles
-Axel Springer SE.--Member of board of directors (2018–2020)
-BASF.
--Member of board of directors (until 2020).
-Bilderberg Meeting.
--Member of the steering committee.
-The Economist Group.
--Fmr member of the board of directors.
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A German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist.
Co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, Founders Fund and first outside investor in Facebook.
According to Forbes, as of May 2025, Thiel's estimated net worth stood at US$20.8 billion, making him the 103rd-richest individual in the world.
Born:
-11 October 1967
--Frankfurt, West Germany
Father:
-Klaus Friedrich Theil
Mother:
-Susanne Theil
Sibling:
-Patrick Michael Theil (younger)
Citizenship:
-United States
--New Zealand
Education:
-Stanford University (BA, JD)
Occupations:
-Businessman
--Entrepreneur
---Venture capitalist
Title:
-President of Clarium Capital
--Chairman of Palantir
---Partner in Founders Fund
----Chairman of Valar Ventures
-----Chair of Mithril Capital
Political party:
-Republican
Spouse:
-Matt Danzeisen (m. 2017)
-11 October 1967
--Frankfurt, West Germany
Father:
-Klaus Friedrich Theil
Mother:
-Susanne Theil
Sibling:
-Patrick Michael Theil (younger)
Citizenship:
-United States
--New Zealand
Education:
-Stanford University (BA, JD)
Occupations:
-Businessman
--Entrepreneur
---Venture capitalist
Title:
-President of Clarium Capital
--Chairman of Palantir
---Partner in Founders Fund
----Chairman of Valar Ventures
-----Chair of Mithril Capital
Political party:
-Republican
Spouse:
-Matt Danzeisen (m. 2017)
After graduating from Stanford, Thiel began his career as a clerk for Judge James Larry Edmondson, worked as a securities lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell, a speechwriter for former U.S. secretary of education William Bennett, and a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse.
He founded Thiel Capital Management in 1996 and co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Luke Nosek in 1998.
He was the chief executive officer of PayPal until its sale to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
Following PayPal, Thiel founded Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund based in San Francisco.
In 2003, he launched Palantir Technologies, a big data analysis company, and has been its chairman since its inception.
In 2005, Thiel launched Founders Fund with PayPal partners Ken Howery and Luke Nosek.
Thiel became Facebook's first outside investor when he acquired a 10.2% stake in the company for $500,000 in August 2004.
He sold the majority of his shares in Facebook for over $1 billion in 2012,[8] and stepped down from the board of directors in 2022.
He co-founded Valar Ventures in 2010, co-founded Mithril Capital, was investment committee chair, in 2012, and was a part-time partner at Y Combinator from 2015 to 2017.
A conservative libertarian, Thiel has made substantial donations to American right-wing figures and causes.
He was controversially granted New Zealand citizenship in 2011 after the Fifth National Government intervened on his behalf.
Thiel had spent 12 non-consecutive days in the country, a fraction of the normal residency requirement of 1,350 days for citizenship.
Through the Thiel Foundation, Thiel governs the grant-making bodies Breakout Labs and Thiel Fellowship, which fund non-profit research into artificial intelligence, life extension, and seasteading.
In 2016, Thiel confirmed that he had funded Hulk Hogan in the Bollea v. Gawker lawsuit because Gawker had previously outed Thiel as gay.
The lawsuit eventually bankrupted Gawker, and led to founder Nick Denton's bankruptcy.
Thiel was born in Frankfurt am Main, then part of West Germany, on 11 October 1967, to Klaus Friedrich Thiel and his wife Susanne Thiel.
The family emigrated to the United States when Peter was one year old and lived in Cleveland, Ohio, where his father worked as a chemical engineer.
Klaus worked for various mining companies, which created an itinerant upbringing for Thiel and his younger brother, Patrick Michael Thiel.
Thiel's mother became a U.S. citizen, but his father did not.
Thiel eventually became a U.S. citizen as well.
Before settling in Foster City, California, in 1977, the Thiel family lived in South Africa and South West Africa (modern-day Namibia).
Peter changed elementary schools seven times.
He attended a German-language school in Swakopmund that required students to wear uniforms and utilized corporal punishment, such as striking students' hands with a ruler.
He said this experience instilled a distaste for uniformity and regimentation later reflected in his support for individualism and libertarianism.
The German community in Swakopmund that Thiel grew up in was known at the time for its continued glorification of Nazism.
Thiel played Dungeons & Dragons and was an avid reader of science fiction, with Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein among his favorite authors.
He is a fan of J. R. R. Tolkien's works, stating as an adult that he had read The Lord of the Rings over ten times.
Thiel has founded six firms (Palantir Technologies, Valar Ventures, Mithril Capital, Lembas LLC, Rivendell LLC and Arda Capital) with names originating from Tolkien.
Thiel excelled in mathematics and scored first in a California-wide mathematics competition while attending Bowditch Middle School in Foster City.
At San Mateo High School, he read Ayn Rand and admired the optimism and anti-communism of then-President Ronald Reagan.
He was valedictorian of his graduating class in 1985.
Thiel studied philosophy at Stanford University.
The replacement of a "Western Culture" program at Stanford with a "Culture, Ideas and Values" course that addressed diversity and multiculturalism prompted Thiel to co-found The Stanford Review, a conservative and libertarian newspaper, in 1987.
The paper received funding from Irving Kristol.
Thiel was The Stanford Review's first editor-in-chief until he graduated in 1989.
Thiel has maintained his relationship with the paper, consulting with staff, donating to the newspaper, and placing graduating students in internships or jobs within his network.
Thiel enrolled in Stanford Law School and earned his juris doctor degree in 1992.
While at Stanford, Thiel met René Girard, whose mimetic theory influenced him.
In Girard's honour, he has established the Imitatio project (part of the philanthropic Thiel Foundation), which aims to "supports research, education, and publications building on Rene Girard’s mimetic theory."
Thiel expressed the hope that by 2100, his teacher would be known as one of the great intellectuals of the 21st century.
The family emigrated to the United States when Peter was one year old and lived in Cleveland, Ohio, where his father worked as a chemical engineer.
Klaus worked for various mining companies, which created an itinerant upbringing for Thiel and his younger brother, Patrick Michael Thiel.
Thiel's mother became a U.S. citizen, but his father did not.
Thiel eventually became a U.S. citizen as well.
Before settling in Foster City, California, in 1977, the Thiel family lived in South Africa and South West Africa (modern-day Namibia).
Peter changed elementary schools seven times.
He attended a German-language school in Swakopmund that required students to wear uniforms and utilized corporal punishment, such as striking students' hands with a ruler.
He said this experience instilled a distaste for uniformity and regimentation later reflected in his support for individualism and libertarianism.
The German community in Swakopmund that Thiel grew up in was known at the time for its continued glorification of Nazism.
Thiel played Dungeons & Dragons and was an avid reader of science fiction, with Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein among his favorite authors.
He is a fan of J. R. R. Tolkien's works, stating as an adult that he had read The Lord of the Rings over ten times.
Thiel has founded six firms (Palantir Technologies, Valar Ventures, Mithril Capital, Lembas LLC, Rivendell LLC and Arda Capital) with names originating from Tolkien.
Thiel excelled in mathematics and scored first in a California-wide mathematics competition while attending Bowditch Middle School in Foster City.
At San Mateo High School, he read Ayn Rand and admired the optimism and anti-communism of then-President Ronald Reagan.
He was valedictorian of his graduating class in 1985.
Thiel studied philosophy at Stanford University.
The replacement of a "Western Culture" program at Stanford with a "Culture, Ideas and Values" course that addressed diversity and multiculturalism prompted Thiel to co-found The Stanford Review, a conservative and libertarian newspaper, in 1987.
The paper received funding from Irving Kristol.
Thiel was The Stanford Review's first editor-in-chief until he graduated in 1989.
Thiel has maintained his relationship with the paper, consulting with staff, donating to the newspaper, and placing graduating students in internships or jobs within his network.
Thiel enrolled in Stanford Law School and earned his juris doctor degree in 1992.
While at Stanford, Thiel met René Girard, whose mimetic theory influenced him.
In Girard's honour, he has established the Imitatio project (part of the philanthropic Thiel Foundation), which aims to "supports research, education, and publications building on Rene Girard’s mimetic theory."
Thiel expressed the hope that by 2100, his teacher would be known as one of the great intellectuals of the 21st century.
After graduating from Stanford Law School, Thiel clerked for Judge James Larry Edmondson of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
Thiel then worked as a securities lawyer for Sullivan & Cromwell in New York.
He left the law firm in under a year.
He then took a job as a derivatives trader in currency options at Credit Suisse in 1993 while also working as a speechwriter for former United States Secretary of Education William Bennett. Thiel returned to California in 1996.
Upon returning to the Bay Area, Thiel capitalized on the dot-com boom.
With financial support from friends and family, he raised $1 million toward the establishment of Thiel Capital Management and embarked on his venture capital career.
Early on, he experienced a setback after investing $100,000 in his friend Luke Nosek's unsuccessful web-based calendar project.
Soon thereafter, Nosek's friend Max Levchin described to Thiel his cryptography-related company idea, which became their first venture called Fieldlink (later renamed Confinity) in 1998.
PayPal
With Confinity, Thiel realized they could develop software to bridge a gap in making online payments.
Although the use of credit cards and expanding automated teller machine networks provided consumers with more payment options, not all merchants had the necessary hardware to accept credit cards.
Thus, consumers had to pay with exact cash or check.
Thiel wanted to create a type of digital wallet for consumer convenience and security by encrypting data on digital devices, and in 1999 Confinity launched PayPal.
When PayPal launched at a press conference in 1999, representatives from Nokia and Deutsche Bank sent $3 million in venture funding to Thiel using PayPal on their PalmPilots.
PayPal then continued to grow through mergers in 2000 with Elon Musk's online financial services company X.com, and with Pixo, a company specializing in mobile commerce.
These mergers allowed PayPal to expand into the wireless phone market and transformed it into a safer and more user-friendly tool by enabling users to transfer money via a free online registration and email rather than by exchanging bank account information. PayPal went public on 15 February 2002 and was bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in October of that year.
Thiel remained CEO of the company until the sale.
His 3.7% stake in the company was worth $55 million at the time of acquisition.
In Silicon Valley circles, Thiel is colloquially referred to as the "Don of the PayPal Mafia".
Clarium Capital
Further information: Clarium Capital
Thiel used $10 million of his proceeds to create Clarium Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund focusing on directional and liquid instruments in currencies, interest rates, commodities, and equities.
Thiel stated that "the big, macroeconomic idea that we had at Clarium—the idée fixe—was the peak-oil theory, which was basically that the world was running out of oil, and that there were no easy alternatives."
In 2003, Thiel successfully bet that the United States dollar would weaken.
In 2004, Thiel spoke of the dot-com bubble having migrated, in effect, into a growing bubble in the financial sector, and specified General Electric and Walmart as vulnerable.
In 2005, Clarium saw a 57.1% return as Thiel predicted that the dollar would rally.
However, Clarium faltered in 2006 with a 7.8% loss.
Thereafter, the firm sought to profit in the long-term from its petrodollar analysis, which foresaw the impending decline in oil supplies.
Clarium's assets under management grew after achieving a 40.3% return in 2007 to more than $7 billion by the first quarter of 2008, but fell later in the year and again in 2009 after financial markets collapsed.
By 2011, after missing out on the economic rebound, many key investors pulled out, reducing the value of Clarium's assets to $350 million, two thirds of which was Thiel's money.
Palantir
In May 2003, Thiel incorporated Palantir Technologies, a big data analysis company named after the Tolkien artifact.
He continues as its chairman, as of 2022.
Thiel stated that the idea for the company was based on the realization that "the approaches that PayPal had used to fight fraud could be extended into other contexts, like fighting terrorism".
He also stated that, after the September 11 attacks, the debate in the United States was "will we have more security with less privacy or less security with more privacy?".
He envisioned Palantir as providing data mining services to government intelligence agencies that were maximally unintrusive and traceable.
Palantir's first backer was the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm In-Q-Tel.
The company steadily grew and in 2015 was valued at $20 billion, with Thiel being the company's largest shareholder.
Facebook
In August 2004, Thiel made a $500,000 angel investment in Facebook for a 10.2% stake in the company and joined Facebook's board.
This was the first outside investment in Facebook and valued the company at $4.9 million.
As a board member, Thiel was not actively involved in Facebook's operations.
He provided help with timing the various rounds of funding and Zuckerberg credited Thiel with helping him time Facebook's 2007 Series D, which closed before the 2008 financial crisis.
In his book The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick outlines how Thiel came to make this investment: Napster co-founder Sean Parker, who at the time had assumed the title of "President" of Facebook, was seeking investors. Parker approached Reid Hoffman, the CEO of work-based social network LinkedIn.
Hoffman liked Facebook but declined to become lead investor because of the potential for conflict of interest.
Hoffman directed Parker to Thiel, whom he knew from their PayPal days.
Thiel met Parker and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Thiel and Zuckerberg got along well, and Thiel agreed to lead Facebook's seed round with $500,000 for 10.2% of the company.
The investment was originally in the form of a convertible note, to be converted to equity if Facebook reached 1.5 million users by the end of 2004.
Although Facebook narrowly missed the target, Thiel allowed the loan to be converted to equity anyway.
Thiel said of his investment: "I was comfortable with them pursuing their original vision.
And it was a very reasonable valuation. I thought it was going to be a pretty safe investment."
In September 2010, Thiel, while expressing skepticism about the potential for growth in the consumer Internet sector, argued that relative to other Internet companies, Facebook (which then had a secondary market valuation of $30 billion) was comparatively undervalued.
Facebook's initial public offering was in May 2012, with a market cap of nearly $100 billion ($38 a share), at which time Thiel sold 16.8 million shares for $638 million.
In August 2012, immediately upon the conclusion of the early investor lock-up period, Thiel sold almost all of his remaining stake for between $19.27 and $20.69 per share, or $395.8 million, for a total of more than $1 billion.
He retained his seat on the board of directors.
In 2016, he sold a little under 1 million of his shares for around $100 million.
In November 2017, he sold another 160,805 shares for $29 million, putting his holdings in Facebook at 59,913 Class A shares.
As of April 2020, he owned less than 10,000 shares in Facebook.
On 7 February 2022, Thiel announced he would not stand for re-election to the board of Facebook owner Meta at the 2022 annual stockholders' meeting and would leave after 17 years in order to support pro–Donald Trump candidates in the 2022 United States elections.
Founders Fund
In 2005, Thiel created Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital fund.
Other partners in the fund include Sean Parker, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek.
The Fund focuses on defense-related startups and technology.
The Economist notes that the Fund and Thiel, personally, have a history of incubating startups that do hypersensitive work related to national security.
The Fund casts Palantir, Anduril and the newly-minted nuclear startup General Matter as the three parts of a trilogy, to which it hopes to add others, among which a plan for onshoring ultraviolet light lithography.
Business Insider reports that, among Thiel's inner circle (who know well the billionaire's fondness for Tolkien's works), the Fund is nicknamed "the Precious", in reference to the One Ring of Sauron.
In addition to Facebook, Thiel made early-stage investments in numerous startups (personally or through Founders Fund), including Airbnb, Slide.com, LinkedIn, Friendster, RapLeaf, Geni.com, Yammer, Yelp Inc., Spotify, Powerset, Practice Fusion, MetaMed, Vator, SpaceX, IronPort, Votizen, Asana, Big Think, CapLinked, Quora, Nanotronics Imaging, Rypple, TransferWise, Stripe, Block.one, and AltSchool.
Thiel also backed DeepMind, a UK start-up that was acquired by Google in early 2014 for £400 million.
In 2017, Founders Fund bought about $15–20 million worth of bitcoin.
In January 2018, the firm told investors that due to the cryptocurrency's surge the holdings were worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Also in 2017, Thiel was one of the first outside investors in Clearview AI, a facial recognition technology startup that has raised concerns in the tech world and media for its risks of weaponization.
Valar Ventures
Through Valar Ventures, an internationally focused venture firm he cofounded with Andrew McCormack and James Fitzgerald, Thiel was an early investor in Xero, a software firm headquartered in New Zealand.
Valar Ventures also invested in New Zealand-based companies Pacific Fibre and Booktrack.
Mithril Capital
In June 2012, he launched Mithril Capital Management, named after the fictitious metal in The Lord of the Rings, with Jim O'Neill and Ajay Royan.
Unlike Clarium Capital, Mithril Capital, a fund with $402 million at the time of launch, targets companies that are beyond the startup stage and ready to scale up.
Y Combinator
In March 2015, Thiel joined Y Combinator as one of 10 part-time partners.
In November 2017, it was reported that Y Combinator had severed its ties with Thiel.
Business Insider reported that Thiel became an FBI informant in 2021.
America’s Frontier Fund
Thiel is the co-founder of America’s Frontier Fund, together with Eric Schmidt.
The New York Times writes that, America’s Frontier Fund is an organization committed to bring manufacturing back to the US, especially that of semiconductors, and the leaders are determinded to carry out this mission whether the state helps them or not.
Influence Watch notes the fund's bipartisan character, with the participation of Ashton B. Carter and H.R. McMaster and the fact that the two founders are left and right-of-center respectively.
The chief executive is Gilman Louie.
Rivada Space Networks
Around the early 2020s, the Bavarian startup Kleo-Connect successfully developed a highly advanced satellite technology, which is considered much more suitable for governmental and military use than that of Starlink, which was originally conceived for civilian use only.
It was feared the technology would fall into the hand of the PLA through its Chinese investors (who invested in the startup since 2018) though.
Thus, the German government banned the sale of the company to China, but 144 lawsuits worldwide deterred investors from helping the company to expand the constellation.
The founders decided to bring in the US's " highest conservative circles" (which led to the formation of Rivada Space Networks, which drew its personnel mainly from Kleo-Connect, in 2022), among which Karl Rove participated as an investor and lobbyist, and former US Security of State Mike Pompeo joined the board of the mother company in the US, alongside others like Richard Myers, Jeb Bush, James Loy, Lord Guthrie and the Democrat Martin O’Malley.
Rivada Networks's chairman Declan Ganley notes in particular the power of Thiel's name (whose investment in the firm remains undisclosed) in negotiation with investors.
The United States Department of Defense is also an investor.
Newt Gingrich is noted to have lobbied for the firm too.
By 2025, the "politically connected company" has already expanded to 33 countries and collected 16 billion dollars in investments, despite having not launched its satellites (deployment is set to begin in 2027 with initial tests set for 2026).
Thiel reportedly works to help the company's development, especially regarding its legal battles.
Enhanced Games
In 2024, Thiel became one of the investors in the Enhanced Games, a proposed multi-sport event that will allow athletes to use performance-enhancing substances without being subject to drug tests.
Thiel then worked as a securities lawyer for Sullivan & Cromwell in New York.
He left the law firm in under a year.
He then took a job as a derivatives trader in currency options at Credit Suisse in 1993 while also working as a speechwriter for former United States Secretary of Education William Bennett. Thiel returned to California in 1996.
Upon returning to the Bay Area, Thiel capitalized on the dot-com boom.
With financial support from friends and family, he raised $1 million toward the establishment of Thiel Capital Management and embarked on his venture capital career.
Early on, he experienced a setback after investing $100,000 in his friend Luke Nosek's unsuccessful web-based calendar project.
Soon thereafter, Nosek's friend Max Levchin described to Thiel his cryptography-related company idea, which became their first venture called Fieldlink (later renamed Confinity) in 1998.
PayPal
With Confinity, Thiel realized they could develop software to bridge a gap in making online payments.
Although the use of credit cards and expanding automated teller machine networks provided consumers with more payment options, not all merchants had the necessary hardware to accept credit cards.
Thus, consumers had to pay with exact cash or check.
Thiel wanted to create a type of digital wallet for consumer convenience and security by encrypting data on digital devices, and in 1999 Confinity launched PayPal.
When PayPal launched at a press conference in 1999, representatives from Nokia and Deutsche Bank sent $3 million in venture funding to Thiel using PayPal on their PalmPilots.
PayPal then continued to grow through mergers in 2000 with Elon Musk's online financial services company X.com, and with Pixo, a company specializing in mobile commerce.
These mergers allowed PayPal to expand into the wireless phone market and transformed it into a safer and more user-friendly tool by enabling users to transfer money via a free online registration and email rather than by exchanging bank account information. PayPal went public on 15 February 2002 and was bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in October of that year.
Thiel remained CEO of the company until the sale.
His 3.7% stake in the company was worth $55 million at the time of acquisition.
In Silicon Valley circles, Thiel is colloquially referred to as the "Don of the PayPal Mafia".
Clarium Capital
Further information: Clarium Capital
Thiel used $10 million of his proceeds to create Clarium Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund focusing on directional and liquid instruments in currencies, interest rates, commodities, and equities.
Thiel stated that "the big, macroeconomic idea that we had at Clarium—the idée fixe—was the peak-oil theory, which was basically that the world was running out of oil, and that there were no easy alternatives."
In 2003, Thiel successfully bet that the United States dollar would weaken.
In 2004, Thiel spoke of the dot-com bubble having migrated, in effect, into a growing bubble in the financial sector, and specified General Electric and Walmart as vulnerable.
In 2005, Clarium saw a 57.1% return as Thiel predicted that the dollar would rally.
However, Clarium faltered in 2006 with a 7.8% loss.
Thereafter, the firm sought to profit in the long-term from its petrodollar analysis, which foresaw the impending decline in oil supplies.
Clarium's assets under management grew after achieving a 40.3% return in 2007 to more than $7 billion by the first quarter of 2008, but fell later in the year and again in 2009 after financial markets collapsed.
By 2011, after missing out on the economic rebound, many key investors pulled out, reducing the value of Clarium's assets to $350 million, two thirds of which was Thiel's money.
Palantir
In May 2003, Thiel incorporated Palantir Technologies, a big data analysis company named after the Tolkien artifact.
He continues as its chairman, as of 2022.
Thiel stated that the idea for the company was based on the realization that "the approaches that PayPal had used to fight fraud could be extended into other contexts, like fighting terrorism".
He also stated that, after the September 11 attacks, the debate in the United States was "will we have more security with less privacy or less security with more privacy?".
He envisioned Palantir as providing data mining services to government intelligence agencies that were maximally unintrusive and traceable.
Palantir's first backer was the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm In-Q-Tel.
The company steadily grew and in 2015 was valued at $20 billion, with Thiel being the company's largest shareholder.
In August 2004, Thiel made a $500,000 angel investment in Facebook for a 10.2% stake in the company and joined Facebook's board.
This was the first outside investment in Facebook and valued the company at $4.9 million.
As a board member, Thiel was not actively involved in Facebook's operations.
He provided help with timing the various rounds of funding and Zuckerberg credited Thiel with helping him time Facebook's 2007 Series D, which closed before the 2008 financial crisis.
In his book The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick outlines how Thiel came to make this investment: Napster co-founder Sean Parker, who at the time had assumed the title of "President" of Facebook, was seeking investors. Parker approached Reid Hoffman, the CEO of work-based social network LinkedIn.
Hoffman liked Facebook but declined to become lead investor because of the potential for conflict of interest.
Hoffman directed Parker to Thiel, whom he knew from their PayPal days.
Thiel met Parker and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Thiel and Zuckerberg got along well, and Thiel agreed to lead Facebook's seed round with $500,000 for 10.2% of the company.
The investment was originally in the form of a convertible note, to be converted to equity if Facebook reached 1.5 million users by the end of 2004.
Although Facebook narrowly missed the target, Thiel allowed the loan to be converted to equity anyway.
Thiel said of his investment: "I was comfortable with them pursuing their original vision.
And it was a very reasonable valuation. I thought it was going to be a pretty safe investment."
In September 2010, Thiel, while expressing skepticism about the potential for growth in the consumer Internet sector, argued that relative to other Internet companies, Facebook (which then had a secondary market valuation of $30 billion) was comparatively undervalued.
Facebook's initial public offering was in May 2012, with a market cap of nearly $100 billion ($38 a share), at which time Thiel sold 16.8 million shares for $638 million.
In August 2012, immediately upon the conclusion of the early investor lock-up period, Thiel sold almost all of his remaining stake for between $19.27 and $20.69 per share, or $395.8 million, for a total of more than $1 billion.
He retained his seat on the board of directors.
In 2016, he sold a little under 1 million of his shares for around $100 million.
In November 2017, he sold another 160,805 shares for $29 million, putting his holdings in Facebook at 59,913 Class A shares.
As of April 2020, he owned less than 10,000 shares in Facebook.
On 7 February 2022, Thiel announced he would not stand for re-election to the board of Facebook owner Meta at the 2022 annual stockholders' meeting and would leave after 17 years in order to support pro–Donald Trump candidates in the 2022 United States elections.
Founders Fund
In 2005, Thiel created Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital fund.
Other partners in the fund include Sean Parker, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek.
The Fund focuses on defense-related startups and technology.
The Economist notes that the Fund and Thiel, personally, have a history of incubating startups that do hypersensitive work related to national security.
The Fund casts Palantir, Anduril and the newly-minted nuclear startup General Matter as the three parts of a trilogy, to which it hopes to add others, among which a plan for onshoring ultraviolet light lithography.
Business Insider reports that, among Thiel's inner circle (who know well the billionaire's fondness for Tolkien's works), the Fund is nicknamed "the Precious", in reference to the One Ring of Sauron.
In addition to Facebook, Thiel made early-stage investments in numerous startups (personally or through Founders Fund), including Airbnb, Slide.com, LinkedIn, Friendster, RapLeaf, Geni.com, Yammer, Yelp Inc., Spotify, Powerset, Practice Fusion, MetaMed, Vator, SpaceX, IronPort, Votizen, Asana, Big Think, CapLinked, Quora, Nanotronics Imaging, Rypple, TransferWise, Stripe, Block.one, and AltSchool.
Thiel also backed DeepMind, a UK start-up that was acquired by Google in early 2014 for £400 million.
In 2017, Founders Fund bought about $15–20 million worth of bitcoin.
In January 2018, the firm told investors that due to the cryptocurrency's surge the holdings were worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Also in 2017, Thiel was one of the first outside investors in Clearview AI, a facial recognition technology startup that has raised concerns in the tech world and media for its risks of weaponization.
Valar Ventures
Through Valar Ventures, an internationally focused venture firm he cofounded with Andrew McCormack and James Fitzgerald, Thiel was an early investor in Xero, a software firm headquartered in New Zealand.
Valar Ventures also invested in New Zealand-based companies Pacific Fibre and Booktrack.
Mithril Capital
In June 2012, he launched Mithril Capital Management, named after the fictitious metal in The Lord of the Rings, with Jim O'Neill and Ajay Royan.
Unlike Clarium Capital, Mithril Capital, a fund with $402 million at the time of launch, targets companies that are beyond the startup stage and ready to scale up.
Y Combinator
In March 2015, Thiel joined Y Combinator as one of 10 part-time partners.
In November 2017, it was reported that Y Combinator had severed its ties with Thiel.
Business Insider reported that Thiel became an FBI informant in 2021.
America’s Frontier Fund
Thiel is the co-founder of America’s Frontier Fund, together with Eric Schmidt.
The New York Times writes that, America’s Frontier Fund is an organization committed to bring manufacturing back to the US, especially that of semiconductors, and the leaders are determinded to carry out this mission whether the state helps them or not.
Influence Watch notes the fund's bipartisan character, with the participation of Ashton B. Carter and H.R. McMaster and the fact that the two founders are left and right-of-center respectively.
The chief executive is Gilman Louie.
Rivada Space Networks
Around the early 2020s, the Bavarian startup Kleo-Connect successfully developed a highly advanced satellite technology, which is considered much more suitable for governmental and military use than that of Starlink, which was originally conceived for civilian use only.
It was feared the technology would fall into the hand of the PLA through its Chinese investors (who invested in the startup since 2018) though.
Thus, the German government banned the sale of the company to China, but 144 lawsuits worldwide deterred investors from helping the company to expand the constellation.
The founders decided to bring in the US's " highest conservative circles" (which led to the formation of Rivada Space Networks, which drew its personnel mainly from Kleo-Connect, in 2022), among which Karl Rove participated as an investor and lobbyist, and former US Security of State Mike Pompeo joined the board of the mother company in the US, alongside others like Richard Myers, Jeb Bush, James Loy, Lord Guthrie and the Democrat Martin O’Malley.
Rivada Networks's chairman Declan Ganley notes in particular the power of Thiel's name (whose investment in the firm remains undisclosed) in negotiation with investors.
The United States Department of Defense is also an investor.
Newt Gingrich is noted to have lobbied for the firm too.
By 2025, the "politically connected company" has already expanded to 33 countries and collected 16 billion dollars in investments, despite having not launched its satellites (deployment is set to begin in 2027 with initial tests set for 2026).
Thiel reportedly works to help the company's development, especially regarding its legal battles.
Enhanced Games
In 2024, Thiel became one of the investors in the Enhanced Games, a proposed multi-sport event that will allow athletes to use performance-enhancing substances without being subject to drug tests.
In May 2016, Thiel confirmed in an interview with The New York Times that he had paid $10 million in legal expenses to finance several lawsuits brought by others, including a lawsuit by Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan) against Gawker Media for invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and infringement of personality rights after Gawker made sections of a sex tape involving Bollea public.
The jury awarded Bollea $140 million, and Gawker announced it was permanently closing due to the lawsuit in August 2016.
Thiel referred to his financial support of Bollea's case as one of the "greater philanthropic things that I've done."
Thiel said he was motivated to sue Gawker after they published a 2007 article publicly outing him, headlined "Peter Thiel is totally gay, people."
Thiel stated that Gawker articles about others, including his friends, had "ruined people's lives for no reason," and said, "It's less about revenge and more about specific deterrence."
In response to criticism that his funding of lawsuits against Gawker could restrict the freedom of the press, Thiel cited his donations to the Committee to Protect Journalists and stated, "I refuse to believe that journalism means massive privacy violations."
"I think much more highly of journalists than that."
"It's precisely because I respect journalists that I do not believe they are endangered by fighting back against Gawker."
On 15 August 2016, Thiel published an opinion piece in The New York Times in which he argued that his defense of online privacy went beyond Gawker.
He highlighted his support for the Intimate Privacy Protection Act and said that athletes and business executives have the right to stay in the closet as long as they want to.
In an open letter to Thiel after losing the case, Gawker's Nick Denton accused Thiel of making them "stripped naked", together with the warning "in the next phase, you too will be subject to a dose of transparency.
However philanthropic your intention, and careful the planning, the details of your involvement will be gruesome."
The jury awarded Bollea $140 million, and Gawker announced it was permanently closing due to the lawsuit in August 2016.
Thiel referred to his financial support of Bollea's case as one of the "greater philanthropic things that I've done."
Thiel said he was motivated to sue Gawker after they published a 2007 article publicly outing him, headlined "Peter Thiel is totally gay, people."
Thiel stated that Gawker articles about others, including his friends, had "ruined people's lives for no reason," and said, "It's less about revenge and more about specific deterrence."
In response to criticism that his funding of lawsuits against Gawker could restrict the freedom of the press, Thiel cited his donations to the Committee to Protect Journalists and stated, "I refuse to believe that journalism means massive privacy violations."
"I think much more highly of journalists than that."
"It's precisely because I respect journalists that I do not believe they are endangered by fighting back against Gawker."
On 15 August 2016, Thiel published an opinion piece in The New York Times in which he argued that his defense of online privacy went beyond Gawker.
He highlighted his support for the Intimate Privacy Protection Act and said that athletes and business executives have the right to stay in the closet as long as they want to.
In an open letter to Thiel after losing the case, Gawker's Nick Denton accused Thiel of making them "stripped naked", together with the warning "in the next phase, you too will be subject to a dose of transparency.
However philanthropic your intention, and careful the planning, the details of your involvement will be gruesome."
Thiel is a self-described conservative libertarian.
Since the late 2010s, he has espoused support for national conservatism, and criticized economically liberal attitudes towards free trade and big tech.
Thiel advocates that companies should avoid competition and attention, and try to develop into monopolies by creating something new, dominate a niche market before expanding into slightly broader markets.
He notes that years or even decades of profits can come from such specific markets.
In 1995, Thiel and David O. Sacks published The Diversity Myth, a book that criticized political correctness and multiculturalism in higher education.
The following year, writing for Stanford Magazine, they argued against affirmative action in the United States, saying that it had hurt, not helped, the "disadvantaged" and had led to increased segregation at Stanford University in the name of "diversity".
"The Straussian Moment", an essay written by Thiel in 2004, is sometimes considered to be a fundamental text in his political thinking and was the subject of a 2019 interview at the Hoover Institution.
The essay draws on several thinkers and political theorists and argues that the September 11 attacks upset "the entire political and military framework of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries", and therefore "a reexamination of the foundations of modern politics" was needed.
Thiel explained in a 2009 essay that he had come to "no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible", due in large part to welfare beneficiaries and women in general being "notoriously tough for libertarians" constituencies, and that he had focused efforts on new technologies (namely cyberspace, space colonization and seasteading) that could create "a new space for freedom" beyond current politics.
Said essay has been referenced by Curtis Yarvin and Nick Land, the main theorists of the neo-reactionary movement, in their writings.
In a 2015 conversation with Tyler Cowen, Thiel claimed that innovative breakthroughs were happening in computing/IT and not the physical world.
He lamented the lack of progress in space travel, high-speed transit, and medical devices.
As a cause for the discrepancy, he said: "I would say that we lived in a world in which bits were unregulated and atoms were regulated."
In 2019, Thiel called Google "seemingly treasonous" and urged a government investigation, citing Google's work with China and asking whether DeepMind or Google's senior management had been "infiltrated" by foreign intelligence agencies.
Thiel is a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group, a private, annual gathering of intellectual figures, political leaders, and business executives.
Support for political activism
Thiel, who is gay, has supported mostly conservative gay rights causes such as the American Foundation for Equal Rights and GOProud.
He invited conservative columnist and friend Ann Coulter to Homocon 2010 as a guest speaker.
Coulter later dedicated her 2011 book, Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America, to Thiel.
Thiel is mentioned in the acknowledgments of Coulter's ¡Adios, America!: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole.
In 2012, Thiel donated $10,000 to Minnesotans United for All Families, in order to fight Minnesota Amendment 1 that proposed to ban marriage between same-sex couples there.
In 2009, it was reported that Thiel helped fund college student James O'Keefe's "Taxpayers Clearing House" video—a satirical look at the Wall Street bailout.
O'Keefe went on to produce the ACORN undercover sting videos; however, through a spokesperson, Thiel denied involvement in the ACORN sting.
In July 2012, Thiel made a $1 million donation to the Club for Growth, a fiscally conservative 501(c)(4) organization, becoming the group's largest contributor.
Club for Growth is a conservative organization with an agenda focused on cutting taxes and other economic issues.
Support for political candidates
Thiel is a member of the Republican Party.
He contributes to both Libertarian and Republican candidates and causes.
In December 2007, Thiel endorsed Ron Paul for President in the 2008 United States presidential election.
After Paul failed to secure the Republican nomination, Thiel contributed to the John McCain campaign.
In 2010, Thiel supported Republican Meg Whitman in her unsuccessful bid for the governorship of California.
He contributed the maximum allowable $25,900 to the Whitman campaign.
In 2012, Thiel, along with Nosek and Scott Banister, put their support behind the Endorse Liberty Super PAC.
Collectively they gave $3.9 million to Endorse Liberty, whose purpose was to promote Ron Paul.
As of 31 January 2012, Endorse Liberty reported spending about $3.3 million promoting Paul by setting up two YouTube channels, buying ads from Google, Facebook and StumbleUpon, and building a presence on the Web.
After Paul again failed to secure the nomination in the 2012 United States presidential election, Thiel contributed to the Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan presidential ticket of 2012.
Thiel initially supported Carly Fiorina's campaign during the 2016 GOP presidential primary elections.
After Fiorina dropped out, Thiel supported Donald Trump and became one of the California delegates for Trump's nomination.
He was a headline speaker during the 2016 Republican National Convention, during which he announced that he was "proud to be gay," for which the assembled Republicans cheered.
On 15 October 2016, Thiel announced a $1.25 million donation in support of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Thiel stated to The New York Times: "I didn't give him any money for a long time because I didn't think it mattered, and then the campaign asked me to."
After Trump's victory, Thiel was named to the executive committee of the President-elect's transition team.
In July 2018, he donated $250,000 to the Trump Victory Committee in support of the Republican National Committee during the 2018 midterm elections and Trump's 2020 re-election campaign.
By February 2022, Thiel was one of the largest donors to Republican candidates in the 2022 election campaign with more than $20.4 million in contributions.
He supported 16 senatorial and congressional candidates, several of whom were proponents of the falsehood that there was significant voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Two of said senatorial candidates (Blake Masters (who lost his race) and later U.S. Vice President JD Vance) were also tech investors who had previously worked for Thiel.
In 2023, Barton Gellman of The Atlantic wrote in an article interviewing Thiel that Thiel "has lost interest in democracy" and that "he wouldn’t be giving money to any politician, including Donald Trump, in the next presidential campaign".
According to Reuters this occurred after he disagreed with the Republican party's focus on cultural issues.
Thiel has his own political-action committee, Free Forever, which is committed to supporting political candidates who support stricter border control, restrictive immigration policy, funds for veterans, and anti-interventionist foreign policy, among other things.
According to OpenSecrets the PAC was only active during the 2020 election cycle and only supported later Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach's failed Senate bid (who lost in the primary election) and received almost all of its contributions from Thiel himself.
Since the late 2010s, he has espoused support for national conservatism, and criticized economically liberal attitudes towards free trade and big tech.
Thiel advocates that companies should avoid competition and attention, and try to develop into monopolies by creating something new, dominate a niche market before expanding into slightly broader markets.
He notes that years or even decades of profits can come from such specific markets.
In 1995, Thiel and David O. Sacks published The Diversity Myth, a book that criticized political correctness and multiculturalism in higher education.
The following year, writing for Stanford Magazine, they argued against affirmative action in the United States, saying that it had hurt, not helped, the "disadvantaged" and had led to increased segregation at Stanford University in the name of "diversity".
"The Straussian Moment", an essay written by Thiel in 2004, is sometimes considered to be a fundamental text in his political thinking and was the subject of a 2019 interview at the Hoover Institution.
The essay draws on several thinkers and political theorists and argues that the September 11 attacks upset "the entire political and military framework of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries", and therefore "a reexamination of the foundations of modern politics" was needed.
Thiel explained in a 2009 essay that he had come to "no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible", due in large part to welfare beneficiaries and women in general being "notoriously tough for libertarians" constituencies, and that he had focused efforts on new technologies (namely cyberspace, space colonization and seasteading) that could create "a new space for freedom" beyond current politics.
Said essay has been referenced by Curtis Yarvin and Nick Land, the main theorists of the neo-reactionary movement, in their writings.
In a 2015 conversation with Tyler Cowen, Thiel claimed that innovative breakthroughs were happening in computing/IT and not the physical world.
He lamented the lack of progress in space travel, high-speed transit, and medical devices.
As a cause for the discrepancy, he said: "I would say that we lived in a world in which bits were unregulated and atoms were regulated."
In 2019, Thiel called Google "seemingly treasonous" and urged a government investigation, citing Google's work with China and asking whether DeepMind or Google's senior management had been "infiltrated" by foreign intelligence agencies.
Thiel is a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group, a private, annual gathering of intellectual figures, political leaders, and business executives.
Support for political activism
Thiel, who is gay, has supported mostly conservative gay rights causes such as the American Foundation for Equal Rights and GOProud.
He invited conservative columnist and friend Ann Coulter to Homocon 2010 as a guest speaker.
Coulter later dedicated her 2011 book, Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America, to Thiel.
Thiel is mentioned in the acknowledgments of Coulter's ¡Adios, America!: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole.
In 2012, Thiel donated $10,000 to Minnesotans United for All Families, in order to fight Minnesota Amendment 1 that proposed to ban marriage between same-sex couples there.
In 2009, it was reported that Thiel helped fund college student James O'Keefe's "Taxpayers Clearing House" video—a satirical look at the Wall Street bailout.
O'Keefe went on to produce the ACORN undercover sting videos; however, through a spokesperson, Thiel denied involvement in the ACORN sting.
In July 2012, Thiel made a $1 million donation to the Club for Growth, a fiscally conservative 501(c)(4) organization, becoming the group's largest contributor.
Club for Growth is a conservative organization with an agenda focused on cutting taxes and other economic issues.
Support for political candidates
Thiel is a member of the Republican Party.
He contributes to both Libertarian and Republican candidates and causes.
In December 2007, Thiel endorsed Ron Paul for President in the 2008 United States presidential election.
After Paul failed to secure the Republican nomination, Thiel contributed to the John McCain campaign.
In 2010, Thiel supported Republican Meg Whitman in her unsuccessful bid for the governorship of California.
He contributed the maximum allowable $25,900 to the Whitman campaign.
In 2012, Thiel, along with Nosek and Scott Banister, put their support behind the Endorse Liberty Super PAC.
Collectively they gave $3.9 million to Endorse Liberty, whose purpose was to promote Ron Paul.
As of 31 January 2012, Endorse Liberty reported spending about $3.3 million promoting Paul by setting up two YouTube channels, buying ads from Google, Facebook and StumbleUpon, and building a presence on the Web.
After Paul again failed to secure the nomination in the 2012 United States presidential election, Thiel contributed to the Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan presidential ticket of 2012.
Thiel initially supported Carly Fiorina's campaign during the 2016 GOP presidential primary elections.
After Fiorina dropped out, Thiel supported Donald Trump and became one of the California delegates for Trump's nomination.
He was a headline speaker during the 2016 Republican National Convention, during which he announced that he was "proud to be gay," for which the assembled Republicans cheered.
On 15 October 2016, Thiel announced a $1.25 million donation in support of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Thiel stated to The New York Times: "I didn't give him any money for a long time because I didn't think it mattered, and then the campaign asked me to."
After Trump's victory, Thiel was named to the executive committee of the President-elect's transition team.
In July 2018, he donated $250,000 to the Trump Victory Committee in support of the Republican National Committee during the 2018 midterm elections and Trump's 2020 re-election campaign.
By February 2022, Thiel was one of the largest donors to Republican candidates in the 2022 election campaign with more than $20.4 million in contributions.
He supported 16 senatorial and congressional candidates, several of whom were proponents of the falsehood that there was significant voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Two of said senatorial candidates (Blake Masters (who lost his race) and later U.S. Vice President JD Vance) were also tech investors who had previously worked for Thiel.
In 2023, Barton Gellman of The Atlantic wrote in an article interviewing Thiel that Thiel "has lost interest in democracy" and that "he wouldn’t be giving money to any politician, including Donald Trump, in the next presidential campaign".
According to Reuters this occurred after he disagreed with the Republican party's focus on cultural issues.
Thiel has his own political-action committee, Free Forever, which is committed to supporting political candidates who support stricter border control, restrictive immigration policy, funds for veterans, and anti-interventionist foreign policy, among other things.
According to OpenSecrets the PAC was only active during the 2020 election cycle and only supported later Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach's failed Senate bid (who lost in the primary election) and received almost all of its contributions from Thiel himself.
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American computer scientist and entrepreneur.
He is best known as a co-founder and the president of Palantir Technologies, a platform for analyzing integration and visualizing data used by governments and businesses.
He is credited with creating the initial prototype of Palantir in eight weeks.
Since then, he has interviewed over 4,500 candidates and continues to be actively involved in Palantir.
Previously to Palantir, Cohen worked with Peter Thiel at Clarium Capital.
He also served as an adviser to BackType prior to its acquisition by Twitter in 2011.
Born: September 30, 1982
-California, U.S.
Alma mater:
-Stanford University (BS)
Occupation:
-Entrepreneur
--Co-founder & President at Palantir Technologies
-California, U.S.
Alma mater:
-Stanford University (BS)
Occupation:
-Entrepreneur
--Co-founder & President at Palantir Technologies
On September 30, 2020, Cohen sold nearly 4 million shares in conjunction with the company’s initial public offering, generating approximately $38 million in proceeds.
On February 20 and 21, 2025, Cohen sold shares totaling approximately $69.3 million.
The transactions included 301,847 shares sold on February 21 at a price of $102.14 per share, amounting to $30.8 million.
On the previous day, multiple sales were executed at prices ranging from $96.43 to $108.28 per share, generating proceeds of $38.4 million.
In March 2025, he sold additional shares valued at over $310 million, representing around 23% of his total stake in the company, under a trading plan adopted in December 2024.
Cohen graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in computer science in 2005.
While at Stanford he focused on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing and did research with professor Andrew Ng, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab.
While at Stanford he focused on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing and did research with professor Andrew Ng, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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An American entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
He co-founded companies including Palantir Technologies, Addepar, and OpenGov, and co-founded and serves as the managing partner at the technology investment firm 8VC.
Born:
-1982/1983
--Fremont, California, U.S.
Education:
-Stanford University (BS)
Occupation:
-Venture capitalist
--Entrepreneur
Known For:
-Palantir Technologies
--Addepar
---OpenGov
----8VC
-----Formation 8
Children:
-6
-1982/1983
--Fremont, California, U.S.
Education:
-Stanford University (BS)
Occupation:
-Venture capitalist
--Entrepreneur
Known For:
-Palantir Technologies
--Addepar
---OpenGov
----8VC
-----Formation 8
Children:
-6
Lonsdale began his career as an intern at PayPal, then worked as an early executive at Clarium Capital, a hedge fund run by Lonsdale's mentor, Peter Thiel.
In 2004, he, Thiel, Alex Karp, Stephen Cohen, and Nathan Gettings co-founded Palantir Technologies, a data mining and defense technology company.
Lonsdale left Palantir in 2009 and co-founded Addepar, a wealth management technology company.
Lonsdale co-founded the venture capital firm Formation 8 in 2011, and another called 8VC in 2015.
Lonsdale has been outspoken about politics, and is an active Republican donor and fundraiser.
He founded the conservative Cicero Institute think tank, and co-founded the private University of Austin.
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TheFiend
Elite
In-Q-Tel (IQT), formerly Peleus and In-Q-It, is an American not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia.
It invests in companies to keep the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability.
The name "In-Q-Tel" is an intentional reference to Q, the fictional inventor who supplies technology to James Bond.
Company type:
-Privately held not-for-profit corporation.
Genre:
-Technology research.
--Govt (taxpayer) funded Venture Capital firm.
Predecessor:
-Peleus.
Founded:
-September 29, 1999 (as Peleus).
Founders:
-Norm Augustine.
--Gilman Louie.
Headquarters:
-Arlington, Virginia, U.S.
Key people:
-Steve Bowsher (President and CEO).
Services:
-Information technology investment supporting U.S. intelligence capabilities.
Owner:
-Central Intelligence Agency.
Website:
-www.iqt.org
Originally named Peleus and known as In-Q-It, In-Q-Tel was "the brainchild" of former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet.
Gilman Louie was In-Q-Tel's first CEO and Norm Augustine, a former CEO of Lockheed Martin, led the board of directors.
In-Q-Tel's mission is to identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve United States national security interests.
Congress approved funding for In-Q-Tel, which was increased in later years.
Origins of the corporation can also be traced to Ruth A. David, who headed the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1990s and promoted the importance of rapidly advancing information technology for the CIA.
In-Q-Tel now engages with entrepreneurs, growth companies, researchers, and venture capitalists to deliver technologies that provide superior capabilities for the CIA, DIA, NGA, and the wider intelligence community.
In-Q-Tel concentrates on three broad commercial technology areas: software, infrastructure and materials sciences.
In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of Google, worth over US$2.2 million, on November 15, 2005.
The share transfer was a result of Google's acquisition of Keyhole, Inc, the CIA-funded satellite mapping software now known as Google Earth.
In August 2006, In-Q-Tel reviewed more than 5,800 business plans and invested approximately $150M in more than 90 companies.
As of 2016, In-Q-Tel listed 325 investments, but more than 100 were secret, according to the Washington Post.
Gilman Louie was In-Q-Tel's first CEO and Norm Augustine, a former CEO of Lockheed Martin, led the board of directors.
In-Q-Tel's mission is to identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve United States national security interests.
Congress approved funding for In-Q-Tel, which was increased in later years.
Origins of the corporation can also be traced to Ruth A. David, who headed the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1990s and promoted the importance of rapidly advancing information technology for the CIA.
In-Q-Tel now engages with entrepreneurs, growth companies, researchers, and venture capitalists to deliver technologies that provide superior capabilities for the CIA, DIA, NGA, and the wider intelligence community.
In-Q-Tel concentrates on three broad commercial technology areas: software, infrastructure and materials sciences.
In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of Google, worth over US$2.2 million, on November 15, 2005.
The share transfer was a result of Google's acquisition of Keyhole, Inc, the CIA-funded satellite mapping software now known as Google Earth.
In August 2006, In-Q-Tel reviewed more than 5,800 business plans and invested approximately $150M in more than 90 companies.
As of 2016, In-Q-Tel listed 325 investments, but more than 100 were secret, according to the Washington Post.
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NotoriousOutlawRecords
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TheFiend
Elite
Matt Danzeisen is the partner of famous American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author Peter Andreas Thiel.
Danzeisen, who is said to be serving as a portfolio manager at Thiel Capital, has garnered much attention for his marriage with his long-time billionaire boyfriend, Thiel.
The homosexual couple announced their wedding at Thiel’s 50th birthday party and that came as a huge surprise to the attending guests.
Danzeisen has worked with the American global investment management corporation, ‘BlackRock, Inc.,’ as a portfolio manager.
He also worked as an investment banker at Bank of America Securities.
Presently, he serves Thiel capital as a portfolio manager.
The company specializes in investment management services.
Located in San Francisco, California, US, the company invests in established as well as new business ventures.
It provides strategic and operational support for different investment initiatives and business entrepreneurial ventures undertaken by Thiel.
Although the exact position that Danzeisen holds in the company is not known for sure, but some sources say that he oversees the private investments of the firm with a special eye on the financial services company.
He is also into active investing in the FinTech space as a board member, lender, and as an equity investor.
He also worked as an investment banker at Bank of America Securities.
Presently, he serves Thiel capital as a portfolio manager.
The company specializes in investment management services.
Located in San Francisco, California, US, the company invests in established as well as new business ventures.
It provides strategic and operational support for different investment initiatives and business entrepreneurial ventures undertaken by Thiel.
Although the exact position that Danzeisen holds in the company is not known for sure, but some sources say that he oversees the private investments of the firm with a special eye on the financial services company.
He is also into active investing in the FinTech space as a board member, lender, and as an equity investor.
Danzeisen rose to fame after the news of his marriage to Peter Thiel spread like fire.
He garnered much media as well as public attention from across the globe after the world famous entrepreneur got hitched with him.
Both Thiel and Danzeisen kept a low profile regarding their romantic association till the time rumours about their dating started making rounds.
There is not much information available on how the two met each other and how the relationship between them started as none of them have spoken about it publicly.
Although Thiel has not divulged much on the marriage or commented publicly about it, according to news and information website Axiox, he married Danzeisen in mid-October 2017 in Vienna, Austria.
Danzeisen came into the spotlight once his high-profile marriage with Thiel became public.
All the guests at Thiel’s 50th birthday celebrations were reportedly taken by surprise when the couple revealed about their wedding.
This surprise marriage garnered huge media attention in no time.
Even though Thiel is openly a gay, he prefers to keep his personal life private.
Thiel’s equation with Donald Trump, whom he supported during the latter’s 2016 presidential campaign, is well known.
According to Buzzfeed, Danzeisen was a “much more moderate” supporter of Trump, the 45th and current President of the United States.
However, after Trump assumed office as the President of the United States, Thiel has maintained a quiet and low profile.
Speculations also did the rounds regarding Thiel’s relationship with Trump who did not attend his big day.
He garnered much media as well as public attention from across the globe after the world famous entrepreneur got hitched with him.
Both Thiel and Danzeisen kept a low profile regarding their romantic association till the time rumours about their dating started making rounds.
There is not much information available on how the two met each other and how the relationship between them started as none of them have spoken about it publicly.
Although Thiel has not divulged much on the marriage or commented publicly about it, according to news and information website Axiox, he married Danzeisen in mid-October 2017 in Vienna, Austria.
Danzeisen came into the spotlight once his high-profile marriage with Thiel became public.
All the guests at Thiel’s 50th birthday celebrations were reportedly taken by surprise when the couple revealed about their wedding.
This surprise marriage garnered huge media attention in no time.
Even though Thiel is openly a gay, he prefers to keep his personal life private.
Thiel’s equation with Donald Trump, whom he supported during the latter’s 2016 presidential campaign, is well known.
According to Buzzfeed, Danzeisen was a “much more moderate” supporter of Trump, the 45th and current President of the United States.
However, after Trump assumed office as the President of the United States, Thiel has maintained a quiet and low profile.
Speculations also did the rounds regarding Thiel’s relationship with Trump who did not attend his big day.
It seems that Danzeisen is a private person and does not like to disclose much about his personal life as there is hardly any information on his family background, early life and education.
While the net worth of Danzeisen remains unknown.
While the net worth of Danzeisen remains unknown.
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TheFiend
Elite
"The Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node systems, or TITAN, act as a mobile ground station that harness AI to collect data from space sensors to assist soldiers with warfare strategy and improve strike targeting and accuracy."
"The Palantir TITAN team unites some of the nation’s strongest traditional and non-traditional partners, including Anduril Industries, Northrop Grumman, L3 Harris, Pacific Defense, SNC, Strategic Technology Consulting, and World Wide Technology on a common mission to deliver a best-in-class solution."
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NotoriousOutlawRecords
Elite
TheFiend
Elite
Reserved
Regardless, your interest is appreciated.
Basically this is testing the development of our own diy TFSF community wiki concept.
Feel free to use/edit/re-edit/update your posts in this Palatir subthreadit to compile, organize & present any particular Palantir subtopic you like.I know abt this.
it's encoded into the assignment.
Regardless, your interest is appreciated.
Basically this is testing the development of our own diy TFSF community wiki concept.
"Wiki: a website or database developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content."
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NotoriousOutlawRecords
Elite
dunno if this is what u meant but here goes
the titan was the device used to slingshot the USS Mirfak thru the escapulating suctioning of the earth when the dome was pressing and releasing during its final birthing pains Of the death of earth.
I may not have used the title titan but it was the exact same.
using corrodinated points the uss mirfak as main reactor excellerated the expulsion of the huge megolithic craft thru the tare between the horizon and sky line as the earth collapsed within itself.
The Titan operates very similarly, now I dunno of the military titan can do such things but if u look at the triangulation of earth's recent earthquakes it's also evident that such technology does in fact exist.
What has always baffled me is how humans hear of a particular tech and think nah they don't really & then when sum thing geological happens they completely forget abt the tech that is said to potentially create such enormous monstrosities of destruction.
Ancient warlords knew that no matter how much technology they acquired nothing was more powerful than natural weather phenomenon and after many thousands of years they were able to incorporate the two as a half assed attempt at reverse engineering divine laws of the cosmos.
And as I wrote in the assignment, these devices places strategically along the ley lines would definitely cause the earth to eviscerate itself from existence.
And knowing tesla damned near brought down, either Philadelphia or Chicago with a reverse engineered prototype, what do they have now and why won't anyone put two and two together outside of a synopsis of such tech and use.
And why hasn't mankind found the courage to challenge the future again?
It's like we want to know such things exist but not that they actually work.
viscous circle jerk, imo.
I may not have used the title titan but it was the exact same.
using corrodinated points the uss mirfak as main reactor excellerated the expulsion of the huge megolithic craft thru the tare between the horizon and sky line as the earth collapsed within itself.
The Titan operates very similarly, now I dunno of the military titan can do such things but if u look at the triangulation of earth's recent earthquakes it's also evident that such technology does in fact exist.
What has always baffled me is how humans hear of a particular tech and think nah they don't really & then when sum thing geological happens they completely forget abt the tech that is said to potentially create such enormous monstrosities of destruction.
Ancient warlords knew that no matter how much technology they acquired nothing was more powerful than natural weather phenomenon and after many thousands of years they were able to incorporate the two as a half assed attempt at reverse engineering divine laws of the cosmos.
And as I wrote in the assignment, these devices places strategically along the ley lines would definitely cause the earth to eviscerate itself from existence.
And knowing tesla damned near brought down, either Philadelphia or Chicago with a reverse engineered prototype, what do they have now and why won't anyone put two and two together outside of a synopsis of such tech and use.
And why hasn't mankind found the courage to challenge the future again?
It's like we want to know such things exist but not that they actually work.
viscous circle jerk, imo.
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