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Peter Thiel wrote his $500K Facebook check while starting Palantir

“I got the call from Peter saying, hey, come on down, and we're starting a company. We'd like you to be one of the first engineers and flew down to have dinner with him about the same time that he wrote the 500,000 dollar check to Facebook.”

Garry Tan Dec 14, 2016 ▶ 3:48 20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?

Assertion Supported

Fishner-Wolfson: Palantir stayed private for 17 to 18 years before IPO

“Palantir basically, you know, has been, or they're now public, but they were private for 1718 years.”

Justin Fishner-Wolfson Feb 4, 2021 ▶ 27:16 20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven

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