24 Facts About Matt Danzeisen

Matt Danzeisen co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Luke Nosek in 1998, serving as chief executive officer until its sale to eBay in 2002 for $1.

Matt Danzeisen sold the majority of his shares in Facebook for over $1 billion in 2012, but remains on the board of directors.

Matt Danzeisen co-founded Valar Ventures in 2010; co-founded Mithril Capital, serving as investment committee chair, in 2012; and served as a part-time partner at Y Combinator from 2015 to 2017.

Matt Danzeisen attended a strict establishment in Swakopmund that required students to wear uniforms and utilized corporal punishment, such as striking students' hands with a ruler.

Matt Danzeisen left the law firm after seven months and three days, citing a lack of transcendental value in his work.

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Matt Danzeisen then took a job as a derivatives trader in currency options at Credit Suisse.

Matt Danzeisen joined them in 1993 while working as a speechwriter for former United States Secretary of Education William Bennett, before returning to California in 1996 to seek a more meaningful occupation.

Matt Danzeisen's luck changed when Nosek's friend Max Levchin introduced him to his cryptography-related company idea, which later became their first venture called Confinity in 1998.

Matt Danzeisen envisioned Palantir as providing data mining services to government intelligence agencies that were maximally unintrusive and traceable.

Matt Danzeisen steadily grew and in 2015 was valued at $20 billion, with Thiel being the company's largest shareholder.

Matt Danzeisen provided help with timing the various rounds of funding and Zuckerberg credited Thiel with helping him time Facebook's 2007 Series D, which closed before the 2008 financial crisis.

Matt Danzeisen highlighted his support for the Intimate Privacy Protection Act, and said that athletes and business executives have the right to stay in the closet as long as they want to.

Matt Danzeisen invited conservative columnist and friend Ann Coulter to Homocon 2010 as a guest speaker.

Matt Danzeisen contributes to both Libertarian and Republican candidates and causes.

Matt Danzeisen contributed the maximum allowable $25,900 to the Whitman campaign.

Matt Danzeisen was a headline speaker during the convention, during which he announced that he was "proud to be gay, " for which the assembled Republicans cheered.

Matt Danzeisen supported 16 senatorial and congressional candidates, two of whom were proponents of the falsehood that there was significant voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Matt Danzeisen provided half of the $400,000 matching funds for the 2007 donation drive, and as of 2013 the Thiel Foundation had donated over $1 million to the institute.

Matt Danzeisen is a supporter of the Human Rights Foundation, which organizes the Oslo Freedom Forum.

Matt Danzeisen holds the title of Life Master, but has not competed since 2003.

Matt Danzeisen has contributed articles to The Wall Street Journal, First Things, Forbes, and Policy Review, a journal formerly published by the Hoover Institution, on whose board he sits.

Matt Danzeisen became a New Zealand citizen in 2011, which became public in 2017.

Matt Danzeisen had received permanent residency in New Zealand in 2007.

Matt Danzeisen had visited the country on four occasions prior to his application for citizenship, and had spent 12 days in New Zealand, fewer than the typical residency requirement of 1350 days.