Founders Fund vs Goerz

Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.

Goerz is the older of the two, founded in 1886 — 119 years before Founders Fund.

Founded: 2005; 1886
Status: Active; Closed 1926
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States; Berlin
Industry: business; business
Founders: Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, Brian Singerman; Carl Paul Goerz
Employees: Not recorded; 2,500
Legal form: Not recorded; joint-stock company
Website: foundersfund.com; Not recorded

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Founders Fund and Goerz.