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  1. In 2004, Thiel bankrolled the creation of a prototype by PayPal engineer Nathan Gettings and Stanford University students Joe Lonsdale and Stephen Cohen. That same year, Thiel hired Alex Karp, a former colleague of his from Stanford Law School, as chief executive officer.

  2. Aug 14, 2013 · On one sun-baked July morning in Silicon Valley Palantir's lean 45-year-old chief executive, with a top-heavy mop of frazzled hair, hikes the grassy hills around Stanford...

  3. Nathan Gettings is an individual investor and a founder of Affirm, RoboteX and Palantir. He invested in Tala, a fintech company, in 2015 and has been featured in several news articles about his career and opinions.

    • Male
    • San Francisco Bay Area, California
  4. Jun 24, 2015 · The group was founded in 2004 by Mr Thiel; its chief executive Alex Karp; Joe Lonsdale, now at the venture capital firm Formation 8; Nathan Gettings and Stephen Cohen.

  5. Jul 8, 2020 · Nathan Gettings is also a member of that original cofounding team and was, for many years, the CTO at Palantir. However, he also went on to become CEO of another Thiel idea: RoboteX, a company ...

  6. Affirm was founded in 2012 by Max Levchin, Nathan Gettings, Jeffrey Kaditz, and Alex Rampell as part of the initial portfolio of startup studio HVF. Levchin, who co-founded PayPal , became CEO of Affirm in 2014.

  7. Sep 30, 2020 · Thiel cofounded Palantir in 2003, one year after selling PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion, with Lonsdale, Cohen (both recent Stanford computer science grads at the time) and PayPal engineer Nathan...