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Question: anyone know the largest risk, financially, that Thiel has recently taken?

Clarium Capital

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarium_Capital

(directly related to his Ron Paul support)

Clarium's assets under management grew to $8 billion in 2008 after which a series of unprofitable investments and client redemptions resulted in its assets declining below $1 billion as of 2011

Ouch.

Do we know how much of his own money was there?

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