Mark Gagnon
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It's unfortunate.
Anyway, Peter Thiel founds Clarion Capital, which is like a big hedge fund, peaks at $7 billion in managed assets, and then co-founds the Founders Fund, and then is one of the outside investors of Facebook right after that.
This is crazy.
He buys a 10% stake, technically a 10.2% stake.
How much did he buy it for?
In Facebook?
Fuck me in the ass.
Like, kind of, I mean, this guy has got the all-seeing eye.
He's got the Palantir.
He's able to scry and be like, oh, this little Zuckerberg kid got something figured out here.
$500,000 to get 10% of Facebook.
That's writing.
It was a very popular, famous companies that are still around.
I'm going to look it up because it was so big that I actually made a sketch about it.