In the summer of 2004, venture capitalist Peter Thiel made a $500,000 angel investment in the social network Facebook for 10.2 per cent of the company. In 2011, the winner of that year’s Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia, Go-Jek, received an undisclosed amount of funding from American angel investor Arthur Benjamin. Both companies went on to be one of the largest tech startups, in the world and Indonesia, respectively.
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