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- In 2005, with Thiel and Ken Howery, he started Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm with over $1 billion under management. In July 2017, Nosek left Founders Fund to launch Gigafund, an investment fund focused on space exploration.
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Dec 15, 2017 · Luke Nosek is leaving Founders Fund, the venture capital firm he co-founded more than a decade ago with Peter Thiel, Axios has learned. His next role will be leading something called Gigafund, a new investment firm that initially will be focused on raising capital for Elon Musk's SpaceX, a Founders Fund portfolio company where Nosek is a director.
- Dan Primack
Sep 16, 2017 · Formerly a founding exec at PayPal, Nosek would also become a former founding exec at Founders Fund, the organization he created (along with Silicon Valley figures such as Peter Thiel) to...
Jul 28, 2017 · Founders Fund just lost one of its founders. Luke Nosek, known for starting PayPal with Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin and Ken Howery, is off to.
Apr 16, 2024 · In 2017, Nosek stepped down from his role as a founding partner of Founders Fund to start a new investment company, this one called Gigafund. Similarly to Founders Fund, Gigafund strongly believes in the power of technology to make the world a better place.
Jul 27, 2017 · News organization Axios reported Thursday afternoon that Luke Nosek, co-founder and partner at Founders Fund, was leaving his firm to start Gigafund, an investment firm that would be initially...
- samantha.masunaga@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Nosek left his role as a founding partner at Founders Fund in 2017 to start his investment firm, Gigafund. Gigafund shares Founders Fund’s belief in technology’s potential to improve the world, but they have a different approach.
Luke Nosek, PayPal co-founder and former vice president of marketing and strategy who later became a partner at Founders Fund. Keith Rabois, former executive at PayPal who later worked at LinkedIn, Square, Khosla Ventures, and Founders Fund.