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Peter Thiel doesn’t need much of an intro. He has been at both sides of the fundraising table, sometimes concurrently. He first invested in a precursor to what would become PayPal and soon after joined it in the early days as a co-founder and CEO. Later he founded and invested in Palantir, which specializes in big-data analytics. In August 2004, Th

“True enough, we have internal experts we can draw on,” says Cenkl, “but we’ve also realized that we need to change the way we present ourselves. It’s not necessarily that the MITRE person is the smartest person in the room. We’ve decided that the model needs to evolve so that we become the brokers of expertise. Our value is that we understand the

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While the firm did employ a well-regarded chief risk officer, Madelyn Antoncic, who had a PhD in economics and had worked at Goldman Sachs, her input was virtually nil. She was often asked to leave the room when issues concerning risk came up at executive committee meetings, and in late 2007, she was removed from the committee altogether.