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Founders Fund

San Francisco venture capital fund founded in 2005 by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery and Luke Nosek. Known for early investments in SpaceX, Palantir and Facebook.

Of the 2 people here linked to Founders Fund, 2 are founders and 1 is still there. 2 of them also appear at PayPal. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

2 people at Founders Fund

Founder

Role

Co-founder and partner, 2005–now
Source · medium confidence. Wikipedia names him a co-founder and notable partner; whether he is a partner today is not separately dated.
Still there
Technology · Venture Capital · Software 2 / 2
Peter Thiel
Co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies; co-founder of Founders Fund; Facebook's first outside investor
professional-immigrant · elite · graduate degree
Founder

Role

Co-founder and general partner, 2005–2017
Source · medium confidence. Wikipedia says 2005; Forbes (May 2026) says he co-founded it in 2006. Departure in July 2017 is from TechCrunch.
Past
Venture Capital · Finance · Technology 4 / 3
Luke Nosek
Co-founder of PayPal; co-founder of Founders Fund and Gigafund; SpaceX director since 2008
Polish-born · some · college degree

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