10 Faces That Made Facebook Great
2. Peter Thiel
What he did: First outside investor
In 2004 Peter bought 9% of Facebook for half a million dollar to become its first outside investor. All this while until peters investment, Facebook was running on the money that Zuckerberg’s parents had raised via loan. Peter coached Zuckerberg with ground breaking business plans and made sure that the investors do not interfere in the way Facebook is run. He was also one of the players in the exit of Eduardo Saverin.
