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.
Institutionalized the contrarian venture capital philosophy — Thiel's principle that the best investments are in companies that have discovered a secret others have missed — and proved it with concentrated positions in SpaceX, Stripe, and Palantir that became some of the highest-returning venture investments in history.
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