Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel        (venture capitalist, billionaire, financier)
Born	Peter Andreas Thiel 1967-10-11 Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
Nationality	German
Citizenship	Germany,  United States,  New Zealand
Alma mater	Stanford University, Stanford Law School
Religion	Christian
Spouse	Matt Danzeisen
Founder of	Palantir Technologies, PayPal
Member of	Bilderberg/Steering committee
Interests	• Life extension • Technology
Party	Libertarian Party
Billion financier, Bilderberger

Peter Thiel is a billionaire member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee whom Sam Biddle described for The Intercept in 2017 as "one of the American political mainstream’s most notorious figures". His first Bilderberg was in 2008 and he has attended all subsequent meetings (since 2012, together with together with co-founder of Palantir, Alex Karp).

Career

He has worked for Sullivan & Cromwell. In 1998 Thiel co-founded PayPal together with Max Levchin. He sold it in 2004. He founded Palantir with Alex Karp and Joe Lonsdale in 2004, a company which at least by 2008 was collaborating with GCHQ.

Citizenship

Born in Germany, he was granted New Zealand citizenship in 2011, after a donation of NZ$1 million ($730,000) to the Christchurch earthquake relief effort, although only having visited 4 times.

Politics

“I believe that it is always important to exchange views with people, no matter what their perspectives are. I think we have a lot of problems in our society and we need to be finding ways to talk to people. We need to find ways to talk to people where not everything is completely transparent. Libertarianism is not synonymous with radical transparency. That’s often an argument that Stasi would make in East Germany, when everything had to be monitored by society. And I think you have the best conversations in smaller groups where not everything is being monitored. That’s how you can have very honest conversations and you can think better about the future.”
Peter Thiel (2016) 

Thiel describes himself as a "libertarian", has opposed women's suffrage and has been a huge supporter of Ron Paul. He has invested in online media such as Reddit.

Interests

Thiel has been funding private research into a range of topics, from helping to extend the human lifespan to the harnessing of fusion power.

Activities

Tom Scocca wrote in 2016 about the shuttering of Gawker that "a lie with a billion dollars behind it is stronger than the truth. Peter Thiel has shut down Gawker.com."

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2007	31 May 2007	3 June 2007	Turkey Istanbul
Bilderberg/2008	5 June 2008	8 June 2008	US Virginia Chantilly
Bilderberg/2009	14 May 2009	17 May 2009	Greece Vouliagmeni
Bilderberg/2010	3 June 2010	6 June 2010	Spain Hotel Dolce Sitges Barcelona
Bilderberg/2011	9 June 2011	12 June 2011	Switzerland Hotel Suvretta St. Moritz
Bilderberg/2012	31 May 2012	3 June 2012	US Virginia Chantilly
Bilderberg/2013	6 June 2013	9 June 2013	Watford UK	The 2013 Bilderberg group meeting.
Bilderberg/2014	29 May 2014	1 June 2014	Denmark Copenhagen Marriott Hotel
Bilderberg/2015	11 June 2015	14 June 2015	Austria Telfs-Buchen
Bilderberg/2016	9 June 2016	12 June 2016	Germany Dresden	The 2016 Bilderberg meeting took place in Dresden, Germany.
Bilderberg/2017	1 June 2017	4 June 2017	US Virginia Chantilly	The 65th Bilderberg Meeting
Bilderberg/2018	7 June 2018	10 June 2018	Italy Turin Hotel Torino Lingotto Congress	The 66th Bilderberg Meeting, in Turin, Italy, known for months in advance after an unprecedented leak by the Serbian government.
Bilderberg/2019	30 May 2019	2 June 2019	Switzerland Montreux Hotel Montreux Palace	The 67th Bilderberg Meeting

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