| Dalia Saad |
A German-American billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist, born on October 11, 1967, in Frankfurt, West Germany, to Susanne and Klaus Friedrich Thiel. His family immigrated to the USA when he was one year old. They lived in Cleveland, where his father worked as a chemical engineer for several mining companies, which resulted in the family being constantly on the move. Before the family settled in Foster City, California, in 1977, they lived in South Africa and South West Africa. As a child, Peter was an avid reader of science fiction books and a big fan of science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. After completing high school, he studied at Stanford University. At that time, the debates over identity politics and political correctness were escalating, and a Western culture educational program that exaggerated the exploits of Western Europeans was replaced by a culture, ideas, and values curriculum that encouraged multiculturalism. The controversy that ensued prompted Thiel to co-found The Stanford Review, which presented conservative and libertarian views, in 1987, and Thiel served as its first editor-in-chief until he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1989, after which he obtained his Juris Doctor degree in 1992 from Stanford Law School. Thiel created Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund, after selling PayPal, which he co-founded, to eBay. Thiel was ranked fourth on the Forbes Midas List of 2014, with a net worth of $2.2 billion. In May of 2022, he had an approximate net worth of $7.19 billion and was no. 297 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He served as an executive producer on the movie Thank You for Smoking (2005).
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