Peter's experience with venture finance began in the 1990s, when he ran Thiel Capital Management, a Menlo Park-based hedge fund that also made private equity investments. In 1998, Peter co-founded PayPal and served as its Chairman and CEO until the company's sale to eBay in October 2002 for $1.5 billion. Peter's experience in finance includes managing a successful hedge fund, trading derivatives at CS Financial Products, and practicing securities law at Sullivan & Cromwell. Peter sits on the Board of Directors of the Pacific Research Institute and on the Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School. Peter received his BA in Philosophy and his JD from Stanford.

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Ken is a co-founder of PayPal and served as the company's first CFO. While at PayPal, Ken helped raise over $200 million in private financing, worked on the company's public offerings, and assisted in the company's $1.5 billion sale to eBay. Ken has also been a member of the research and trading teams at Clarium Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund based in San Francisco with over $2 billion under management, and at Thiel Capital Management, a multistrategy investment fund, where Ken made venture investments beginning in 1998. Ken received a BA in Economics from Stanford.

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Luke Nosek is a co-founder of PayPal and served as the company's Vice President of Marketing and Strategy. While at PayPal, Luke oversaw the company's marketing efforts at launch, growing the user base to 1 million customers in the first six months. Luke also created "Instant Transfer," PayPal's most profitable product. Prior to PayPal, Luke was an evangelist at Netscape. Luke has also co-founded two other consumer Internet companies, including the web's first advertising network, and has made a number of venture investments since 2000. Luke received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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Sean Parker is the co-founder and Chairman of "Project Agape," a new
network that aims to enable large-scale political and social activism on
the Internet. Previously, Sean was the co-founder of the category
defining Web ventures Napster, Plaxo, and Facebook. At Napster, Sean
helped to design the Napster client software and led the company's
initial financing and strategy. Under Sean's leadership, Napster became
the fastest adopted client software application in history. Following
Napster, Sean co-founded and served as President of Plaxo, where he
pioneered the viral engineering techniques used to deploy Plaxo's
flagship smart address book product, ultimately acquiring more than 15
million users. In 2004, Sean left Plaxo to become the founding
President of Facebook, one of the most rapidly growing sites on the
Internet today. Sean sits on the boards of several private companies.

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