Entrepreneur | Business | Marketing on Instagram: "Peter Thiel, born in Germany in 1967, is one of Silicon Valley’s boldest minds. He co-founded PayPal and Palantir, and turned a $500K early bet on Facebook into $1B. A true contrarian, Thiel backs daring startups others ignore—building a net worth of $7B by 2025. #peterthiel #paypal #palantir #facebook #billionaire #investor #founder #startups #entrepreneur #success"

Yesterday on Instagram: "Peter Thiel has been called brilliant, controversial, even dangerous. And he’s leaned into all three. In 1998, he teamed up with Elon Musk to launch PayPal. Just four years later, eBay acquired it for $1.5B. Thiel took his payout and spun it into a $7B hedge fund, before co-founding Palantir, the secretive data firm that works at the highest levels of government and defense. But his defining move came in 2004. Meeting a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg. Thiel wrote Facebook’s