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American venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek, and Ken Howery in 2005 — which has invested in SpaceX, Airbnb, Palantir, Stripe, and Lyft — and which is known for making large concentrated bets on ambitious technology companies.
American venture capitalist who was part of the original PayPal founding team and who co-founded Founders Fund with Peter Thiel — making him a central node in the PayPal Mafia network that seeded much of Silicon Valley's second generation.