世界上最有权势的100人V：40-49岁权势人物

Venture capitalist and co-founder of Palantir Technologies
帕拉提尔科技公司联合创始人，风险投资家

What makes him powerful: Famous for being Facebook's first investor, and co-founder and former CEO at PayPal, Thiel has another big winner with big-data consultancy Palantir Technologies. The semisecret firm has worked for the FBI and CIA, and raised $107.5 million in December.
权势所在：他因是Facebook早期投资者，Paypal联合创始人，前首席执行官而为人所熟知。泰尔的另一大手笔就是大型数据分析公司帕拉提尔科技公司。这个半秘密性质的公司为FBI和CIA工作，12月份盈利达1亿750万美元。