Peter Thiel
Source of wealth: Facebook, investments
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Biography
PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel remains a general partner of venture capital firm Founders Fund, where he is involved in firm strategy and weighs in on its large investments.
Among its investments are Stripe and SpaceX, two of the most valuable unicorns in the world.
He also cofounded CIA-backed big data startup Palantir, which went public via a direct listing in 2020.
Thiel, the first big investor in Facebook, has sold most of his stake in the social network; He left the board in 2022.
His Thiel Foundation gives a small number of young entrepreneurs $100,000 over two years to skip college and build their own company.
Thiel moved to Los Angeles from San Francisco in early 2018 after calling Silicon Valley a "one-party state."
Perspective on their fortune
Gold
Everyday luxury
A Peter Thiel's fortune is equivalent to 192 of gold, but this may be difficult to value, as we don't usually have a handful of gold bars in our piggy bank.
A standard gold ring typically weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18k gold.
Based on today's gold price (not taking into account the jeweler's fee, shipping, or anything else), that gold ring would be worth $556.3
Peter Thiel could buy 51,200,353 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and a lot of gifts!!
And if the number of rings is difficult to visualize, all these rings would need 9 trucks to transport them, But we can be almost certain that Peter Thiel will have enough left over to pay for the gas for those trucks.
Health
The price of life
Let's compare Peter Thiel's fortune with the healthcare spending of a huge country
Peter Thiel could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo with a population of over 105,800,000 of inhabitants for approximately 12.8 years.
But even if we compare their fortune to that of a rich country
At the other extreme, Peter Thiel could cover the health expenditure of Luxembourg, considered the world's most heavily invested health system, for 5.7 years
Education
Buying the future
Lowest education spending
Peter Thiel could assume the entire cost of the education system of Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, with more than 243,000,000 inhabitants for 8.4 years.
Highest education spending
But not only could he assume the cost of a poor country, Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, Peter Thiel could pay for it in full for 11.4 years.
Research
The monopoly of progress
Lowest research spending
Peter Thiel could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with more than 260,000,000 of inhabitants, for 48.0 years.
Highest research spending
But even if we compare the total wealth of Peter Thiel with Israel, the country that currently invests the most per capita in research in the world, it could assume the total cost of the system for 1.1 years.
Financial Assets
Monthly wealth history
Fortune comparison
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