# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luke-nosek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:33:21.982Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/luke-nosek"
name: "Luke Nosek"
slug: "luke-nosek"
description: "Łukasz Nosek is a Polish-American entrepreneur, notable for being a co-founder of PayPal, which he co-founded with Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Yu Pan and Ken Howery as Confinity in 1998. He is also a co-founder of Founders Fund."
tagline: "American businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Graphing_Social_Patterns_07_-_IMG_9586_(1527725262).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1975"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.43
  momentum:             23.60720442791035
  historical:           8.804918666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukenosek/"
    handle:    "lukenosek"
sources:
  - url: "https://csb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81ukasz_Nosek"
    title: "Łukasz Nosek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%83_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "لوك نوسيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%95"
    title: "লুক নোসেক"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%DA%A9_%D9%86%DB%86%D8%B3%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "لوک نۆسیک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Nosek"
    title: "Luke Nosek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%DA%A9_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B3%DA%A9"
    title: "لوک نوسک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Nosek"
    title: "Luke Nosek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81ukasz_Nosek"
    title: "Łukasz Nosek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%2C_%D0%9B%D1%8E%D0%BA"
    title: "Носек, Люк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8E%D0%BA_%D0%9D%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA"
    title: "Люк Носек"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6702205"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump