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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.
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...
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.
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.
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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.
Jul 16, 2020 · Nathan Gettings is one of the four co-founders of Palantir, a secretive data-mining company that works mostly for government agencies. Learn how Palantir was born after 9/11, how it became a valuable startup, and how it plans to expand its data-gathering and analysis.
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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...
