Peter Thiel has enjoyed plenty of success in Silicon Valley. The San Francisco resident co-founded online payment site PayPal in 1998, which he would later sell for $1.5 billion. He struck gold again when he became the first outside investor in Facebook. Also on his impressive resume are some world-class chess skills.
Source: Forbes.com
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
I think Peter is around 2300+.
Peter can I have a loan for 10K?
2287 USCF
2199 FIDE, no title
It strikes me as odd that someone with such vast wealth doesn not contribute to chess. For example, funding a tournament. Maybe it’s just me…but, with 1.5 Billion….it wouldn’t hurt him at all.
OH well….
He clearly has more important things to do that he regards as better value for his $ …
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