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Peter Thiel

1967 - Today

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Peter Andreas Thiel (; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. As of June 2023, Thiel had an estimated net worth of $9.7 billion and was ranked 213th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.He worked as a securities lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell, as a speechwriter for former U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett and as a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Thiel has received more than 13,276,067 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Peter Thiel is the 396th most popular businessperson (down from 323rd in 2019), the 3,763rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,009th in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 13M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Peter Thiels by language

Over the past year Peter Thiel has had the most page views in the with 1,421,861 views, followed by German (227,564), and Japanese (69,286). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Turkish (161,400.00%), Cornish (127.82%), and Simple English (121.37%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Peter Thiel ranks 396 out of 847. Before him are Franz Josef Popp, Adolf Merckle, Malcom McLean, Toto Wolff, David Geffen, and Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. After him are Henry Cole, Eddie Jordan, Pavel Durov, Katharine Graham, Tatsumi Kimishima, and Li Ning.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Peter Thiel ranks 130. Before him are Takehito Koyasu, Dan Petrescu, David Černý, Savanna Samson, Thorsten Fink, and Charb. After him are Mira Sorvino, Basile Boli, Henry Ian Cusick, Masha Gessen, Daron Acemoglu, and Masatada Ishii.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Thiel ranks 3,763 out of 7,253. Before him are Thomas Berthold (1964), Emil Julius Gumbel (1891), Matilda of France (943), Fritz Darges (1913), Ruth Fischer (1895), and Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg (1852). After him are Erich Marcks (1891), Norbert Lammert (1948), Alexander, Prince of Lippe (1831), Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel (1804), Glückel of Hameln (1646), and Wolf Hoffmann (1959).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Peter Thiel ranks 48. Before him are Karl Wittgenstein (1847), Emil Rathenau (1838), Susanne Klatten (1962), Albert Ballin (1857), Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880), and Adolf Merckle (1934). After him are Ernest Oppenheimer (1880), Jawed Karim (1979), Reinhard Mohn (1921), Kim Dotcom (1974), Marcus Goldman (1821), and Hermann Josef Abs (1901).

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