The fintech founder says a "moral capitalist" culture will keep its buy-now-pay-later services in demand despite growing ...

Peter Thiel has amassed a net worth of over $15 ... In 1998, Thiel co-founded PayPal, originally Cofinitiy , with Max Levchin and Luke Nosek. During the early days of e-commerce, Thiel and his ...

The company founded by Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Max Levchin has spawned three billionaires, many, many millionaires, and generation-defining companies. Here, we break down the key players from ...

Max Levchin, who runs a company called Affirm ... Gura: During the 2016 campaign, Peter Thiel made waves by endorsing Donald Trump. Chafkin: First of all, it was shocking because very few ...

It's Peter Thiel's world now. We just live in it. Peter Thiel has won. Behind the chaotic first month of the Trump administration lies a sweeping political vision laid out by Thiel, the ...

Thiel took a job as a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse Group and made enough money to launch a financial tech startup called PayPal with Max Levchin, which merged with Elon Musk's payment ...

Max Levchin, and Peter Thiel, PayPal became the go-to brand name in online money management and was bought by eBay in 2002. As of 2025, PayPal accounts for 45% of the global payments market and ...

Founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel and Luke Nosek, the payment platform that would later become PayPal began as a Palm Pilot cryptography company called Confinity, which was ...