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Amin Mirzadegan
Partner
Founders Fund
Founders Fund partner backing companies across stages, including Ramp, Stripe, Ohalo, and Netic.
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Bio
Professional summary
Founders Fund describes Peter Thiel as an entrepreneur and investor who co-founded PayPal, led it as CEO, and took it public. The firm also states that he made Facebook's first outside investment and co-founded Palantir Technologies, where he serves as chairman. Founders Fund notes his early funding of LinkedIn, Yelp, and many other startups, and describes the firm as having backed companies including SpaceX and Airbnb. His profile is most relevant to founders building unusually ambitious companies in large, non-consensus markets.
Investment focus
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Stage
SeedSeries AGrowth
Sector
Frontier technologyDefense technologyEnterprise softwareConsumer internet
Thesis
Contrarian technology companiesLarge-market startups with monopoly potentialFoundational technology and long-term progress
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
PayPalFacebookPalantir TechnologiesLinkedInYelpSpaceXAirbnb
How to approach
Framing and angles for outreach
Pitch framing
Lead with a non-consensus but rigorously argued thesis: why the market is misunderstood, why the company can become structurally dominant, and what technological or strategic insight makes the opportunity possible now.
Personalization hooks
- 1Reference Zero to One-style thinking only if the pitch has a clear monopoly or category-creation argument.
- 2Connect the company to technological progress rather than incremental software optimization.
- 3Use examples like PayPal, Palantir, SpaceX, or Airbnb only to frame ambition, not as a generic name-drop.
Recent signals
What the partner has said or done recently
Continues to be listed as a Partner on Founders Fund's team page.
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