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  1. Apr 16, 2024 · Luke Nosek is a Polish-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist known primarily for being one of the co-founders of PayPal. After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Nosek worked briefly for Netscape before starting PayPal with Peter Thiel and Max Levchin. Nosek was PayPal’s vice president of marketing and ...

  2. Nov 12, 2023 · In 2005, Nosek joined Thiel and Howery as a partner at Founders Fund. In 2017, Nosek left Founders Fund to launch investment firm Gigafund, which helped raise money for SpaceX.

  3. Luke Nosek is Managing Partner/Co-Founder at Gigafund. See Luke Nosek's compensation, career history, education, & memberships.

  4. Jan 13, 2023 · Luke Nosek is a member of the Board of Directors of the XPRIZE Foundation, an organization that runs global competitions to encourage innovation and technological advancement. Notable achievements Luke Nosek’s most notable achievement is co-founding PayPal, one of the world’s first and most successful digital payment systems.

  5. Luke Nosek. Luke Nosek is currently the co-founder of Gigafund. As a co-founder of PayPal, Luke served as the company’s Vice President of Marketing & Strategy. While at PayPal, he oversaw the company’s marketing efforts at launch, growing user base to 1 million customers in the first six months. Luke also created “Instant Transfer ...

  6. Jan 14, 2021 · Luke Nosek is also a successful venture capitalist. Reid Hoffman is the founder of LinkedIn. All four men are multi-billionaires. Now a fifth founder of PayPal, ...

  7. Feb 28, 2020 · Abstract. When Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek cofounded PayPal, then named Confinity, in 1998, they were fighting against Goliath. PayPal, an online payment and money transfer system, was entering a deeply competitive market dominated by Billpoint, a joint venture between eBay and Wells Fargo. With such steep competition, PayPal ...