#FoundersFund

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People (8)

Joe Lonsdale Joe Lonsdale is an American technology entrepreneur and investor who cofounded Palantir Technologies as a founding engineer in 2003, founded the venture capital firm 8VC, and has been a central figure in the Thiel-aligned defense-technology investment cluster backing Anduril Industries.
Keith Rabois American lawyer and venture capitalist, former PayPal and Square executive, Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund partner, Opendoor co-founder and chairman, Republican donor, and husband of Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg.
Ken Howery PayPal and Founders Fund co-founder who served as Trump's ambassador to Sweden from 2019, gave 1 million dollars to America PAC in June 2024, and became ambassador to Denmark in 2025.
Luke Nosek PayPal co-founder, Founders Fund co-founder and Gigafund managing partner, a SpaceX director since July 2008 whose 2026 prospectus lists 32,987,360 shares, 2,381,000 pledged against personal debt.
Mike Solana Mike Solana is a Founders Fund executive and the founder and editor-in-chief of the Substack publication Pirate Wires, who has worked with Peter Thiel for more than ten years and serves as the organizer of the Hereticon 'conference for thoughtcrime' and the chief marketing officer of Founders Fund.
Palmer Luckey Palmer Luckey is the founder of Oculus VR who, after being pushed out of Facebook in 2017 over a pro-Trump donation, founded the Founders Fund-backed defense contractor Anduril Industries.
Peter Thiel Peter Thiel is the German-born investor who cofounded PayPal, Palantir and the Dialog society, founded Founders Fund, funded Curtis Yarvin, and corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein from 2011 to 2019.
Trae Stephens Trae Stephens is a Founders Fund partner and cofounder of Anduril Industries who began as an intelligence-community linguist and early Palantir employee, led the Department of Defense team on Donald Trump's 2016 transition, and whose ACTS 17 Collective hosted Peter Thiel's 2025 Antichrist lectures.

Organizations (4)

Anduril Industries Anduril Industries is a defense-technology contractor founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey and Palantir Technologies alumni Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens, Matt Grimm, and Joe Chen, backed by Founders Fund, that builds the Lattice autonomous-systems platform and autonomous hardware for the Pentagon and allied militaries, and was valued at 30.5 billion dollars in its 2025 Series G round.
Carbyne Carbyne, founded as Reporty, is an Israeli emergency-call and surveillance technology company in which Jeffrey Epstein invested through Ehud Barak in 2015, and which Axon Enterprise bought for 625 million dollars.
Founders Fund Founders Fund is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek, whose early investments in Facebook, SpaceX, Airbnb, Stripe, Palantir Technologies, and Anduril Industries made it the financial vehicle of the Thiel commercial network.
Hereticon Hereticon is an invitation-only conference organized by Founders Fund executive Mike Solana, announced in October 2019 and first held January 10 to 13, 2022, self-described as 'a conference for thoughtcrime,' whose programming spans immortality research, UFO claims, doomsday prepping, and ideological heterodoxy.