He previously backed Ron Paul 's Super PAC in 2012. A self-described Libertarian, Thiel graduated from Stanford University as an undergraduate and then Stanford Law School.

On one hand, he graduated from Stanford University with a philosophy degree and a law degree. Conversely, he thinks college is so overrated that he will pay students $100,000 to drop out.

Peter Thiel (left) and Elon Musk (right) are both members of the PayPal Mafia. AP It's also what first made him rich. He earned about $100 million when it went public, Bloomberg estimates.

After graduating from San Mateo High School in 1985, Thiel enrolled at Stanford, where he majored in philosophy and co-founded the conservative-libertarian newspaper the Stanford Review.

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