| 词条 | Ken Howery |
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| name = Ken Howery | image = Howery ken 2559 - FOR WIKI.jpg | caption = | birthname = Kenneth Alan Howery | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1975|11|4}} | birth_place = | alma_mater = Stanford University | occupation = Co-founder and partner at Founders Fund | known_for = Co-founder and CFO at PayPal }}Kenneth Alan Howery ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|aʊər|i}}; born November 4, 1975) is an American entrepreneur. He is co-founder/partner at Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management. On October 16, 2018, President Donald J. Trump nominated Howery to be the United States Ambassador to Sweden.[1] CareerBorn in 1975, {{Where|date=October 2018}} Howery graduated from Stanford University in 1998 with a B.A. in economics. While at Stanford, he was managing editor of The Stanford Review, a student-run newspaper.[2] The same year he graduated, he co-founded PayPal with Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek, Elon Musk, and Max Levchin. From 1998 to 2002, Howery served as PayPal’s CFO. Following PayPal's acquisition by eBay in 2002, Howery served as eBay's Director of Corporate Development until 2003. Howery then rejoined Thiel in 2004 at Clarium Capital Management, where he served as vice president of private equity, as well as a member of the research and trading teams.{{cn|date=February 2018}} In 2005, Howery and Thiel, along with fellow PayPal alumnus, Luke Nosek, started Founders Fund. He currently serves on the boards of Quantcast and ZocDoc. In 2010, Venture Capital Journal named Howery one of the Top 10 VCs under 36.[3] He has lectured on entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School and Stanford, and has helped students at UC Berkeley and UT Austin's McCombs School of Business to develop business models.[4] Public engagementIn March 2012, the World Economic Forum named Howery a Young Global Leader,[4] a community of “socially-minded men and women selected under the age of 40, who operate as a force for good to overcome barriers that elsewhere stand in the way of progress."[5] He is also a member of the Selection Committee for the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers Program.[6] Howery is a member of The Explorers Club, a non-profit group that promotes scientific exploration. In 2016, Howery stated that he had visited "eighty-six or eighty-seven countries".[7] Howery serves as an advisor to Kiva, a 501(c)(3) charity organization which enables people to lend money via the Internet to low-income entrepreneurs and students in over 80 countries. He is a member of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, which has a stated goal of increasing the United States' economic competitiveness in the global marketplace.[6] References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-nominate-personnel-key-administration-posts-65/|title=President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Personnel to Key Administration Posts - The White House|website=Whitehouse.gov|accessdate=21 October 2018}} {{PayPal Mafia}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Howery, Keith}}2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://stanfordreview.org/life-after-the-stanford-review-by-anthony-mainero|title=Life After the Stanford Review|date=February 10, 2012|work=The Stanford Review|access-date=February 16, 2018}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://blogs.reuters.com/small-business/2010/08/02/hot-prospects-top-10-vcs-under-36|title=Hot prospects: Top 10 VCs under 36|publisher=Reuters|author=Staff|date=August 2, 2010}} 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www3.weforum.org/docs/YGL12/WEF_YGL_HonoureesClass_2012.pdf|title=List of 2012 Young Global Leaders Honourees|date=July 20, 2012|website=World Economic Forum|access-date=February 16, 2018}} 5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.weforum.org/communities/young-global-leaders|title=Young Global Leaders|website=World Economic Forum|access-date=2017-07-28}} 6. ^1 2 {{Cite web|url=https://blog.kiva.org/about/team/advisors|title=Board and Advisors {{!}} Kiva|website=blog.kiva.org|access-date=2017-07-28}} 7. ^{{Cite news|url=http://magazine.ivy.com/2016/10/ken-howery-2|title=Behind the Scenes with PayPal Co-Founder Ken Howery|date=October 11, 2016|work=IVY MAGAZINE|access-date=August 15, 2017}} 9 : 1975 births|Living people|Stanford University alumni|American financial businesspeople|PayPal people|Place of birth missing (living people)|American technology company founders|American chief financial officers|Businesspeople from California |
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