Leadership & Staff
Blake Masters
COO, Thiel Capital; US Senate candidate from Arizona
Danielle Strachman
Charter School founder and Peter Associate Thiel
Nick Arnett
Founder of Waypaver Foundation
Renee DiResta
Research Manager, Stanford Internet Observatory
David Luan
Thiel Fellow
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Fellow
John Marbach
Thiel Fellow
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Fellow
Andrew Hsu
Thiel Fellow
Owners
Peter Thiel
Billionaire venture capitalist, PayPal and Palantir Cofounder; Chess prodigy
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Owner
Donations
Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
Formerly Singularity Institute for AI
Acton Institute
Ties right-wing religion and free-market economics
Child Organizations
Breakout Labs
grant-making body operating as part of the Thiel Foundation
Parents
Thiel Fellowship
The Thiel Fellowship gives $100,000 to young people who want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.