Thiel Fellowship

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• BFBrendan FoodyThiel Fellow2 sourcesCofounder and CEO of Mercor, a company that hires experts to train frontier AI models; earlier founded Ceros and was a Thiel Fellow.
• DFDylan FieldThiel Fellow2 sourcesCo-founder and CEO of Figma, the collaborative design software company; an early Thiel Fellow.
• PTPeter Thieldevised2 sourcesVenture capitalist and entrepreneur, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies and of the venture firm Founders Fund.
• TSTara SeshanThiel Fellow2 sourcesProduct lead at OpenAI for Codex and ChatGPT Work, formerly a product manager at Stripe and Watershed and a Thiel Fellow.
• AWAri WeinsteinThiel Fellow1 sourceFounder of Sky, a startup acquired by OpenAI, and a leader of computer use work at OpenAI.
• AHAdarsh HiremathThiel Fellow2 sourcesCo-founder and co-CEO of Mercor, an AI-powered hiring platform; a former Thiel Fellow and Harvard student.
• BBrendanThiel Fellow1 sourceCofounder of Mercor, an AI hiring and talent marketplace company, and founder of the design company Fig, which was sold to Amazon; a Thiel Fellow from Australia.
• DSDanielle Strachmanfrom Thiel Fellowship1 sourceExecutive associated with the Thiel Fellowship, a program that supports young people building companies outside traditional higher education.
• LNLuke Nosekdevised1 sourceVenture investor and co-founder of Founders Fund, and a co-founder of PayPal and the Thiel Fellowship program.
• SSuriyaThiel Fellow1 sourceCofounder of Mercor, an AI-driven hiring and talent marketplace company, and a Thiel Fellow.
• YYashfellow1 sourceCEO of Applied Compute, an AI company; previously a Thiel Fellow.