# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-thiel
# Generated: 2026-08-31T12:53:50.968Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-thiel"
name: "Peter Thiel"
slug: "peter-thiel"
description: "Peter Andreas Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003), and Founders Fund (2005), he was also the first outside investor in Facebook (2004). According to The New York Times, as of December 2025, Thiel's estimated net worth stood at US$27.5 billion, placing him among the 100 richest individuals in the world."
tagline: "German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist (born 1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Thiel_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1967-10-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           40.806492
  currentAttention:     6.361111111111112
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  21
  category: 48
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    title: "ピーター・ティール"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill