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Kenneth A. Howery. Kenneth A. Howery served as the United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden from 2019 to 2021. Mr. Howery previously was a highly accomplished venture capitalist and entrepreneur specializing in creating and funding technology companies. He is a co-founder and former partner at Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based ...
An American investor, he graduated from Stanford University in 1998 with a B.A. degree in Economics. That same year, he co-founded PayPal with Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek, Elon Musk, and Max Levchin. He had been with the same team of people since university. He met Thiel at an alumni event when he was studying economics at Stanford. Thiel told him he needed someone to help him out on his fund so ...
Oct 16, 2018 · President Donald Trump announced plans Tuesday to nominate Founders Fund partner and PayPal co-founder Ken Howery as U.S. ambassador to Sweden, the White House said in a statement.
Ken Howery Founders Fund: PayPal, Facebook, SpaceX, ZocDoc Ken Howery is a managing partner at Founders Fund. He was a co-founder of PayPal and served as the company’s first CFO. While at PayPal, Ken helped raise over $200 million in private financing, worked on the company’s public offerings,
Watch as newly arrived U.S. Ambassador Ken Howery introduces himself, gets his first experiences of Sweden and talks about his goals for his time as ambassador.
US Ambassador in Stockholm, Sweden. I served as the US Ambassador to Sweden from Oct 2019 - Jan 2021. My priorities as ambassador included strengthening security and defense ties with Sweden to confront challenges posed by non-democratic regimes, deepening economic ties between our two countries including in technology and innovation, and ...
Biography. Mr. Ken Howery is a Co-Founder and served as a Partner at Founders Fund. He also is a Co-founder of PayPal and served as the company's first Chief Financial Officer. While at PayPal, he helped raise over $200 million in private financing, worked on the company's public offerings, and assisted in the company's $1.5 billion sale to eBay.
