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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★Forbes Midas List 2013 - ranked #92 among top 100 venture capitalists
★University of Illinois Electrical & Computer Engineering Hall of Fame
Notable Facts
→Co-founder of PayPal (1998) alongside Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Elon Musk, and Ken Howery
→Created PayPal's 'Instant Transfer' product, the company's most profitable feature
→Co-founded Founders Fund in 2005 with over $1 billion under management
→First institutional investor in SpaceX (2008) and serves on the board
→Left Founders Fund in 2017 to co-found Gigafund, focused on space exploration
→Member of the famous 'PayPal Mafia' - influential group of PayPal alumni
→Born in Poland, immigrated to US, earned B.S. in Computer Engineering from UIUC
→Estimated net worth of $1.2-1.5 billion as of 2025
→Early board director at DeepMind before Google acquisition
→Invested over $1 billion in SpaceX through Gigafund since 2017
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