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【New Zhiyuan Guide】He became foreign minister at the age of 27, was elected prime minister at the age of 31, and resigned at the age of 35 to go to Silicon Valley!
Although 2022 has already begun, there is still a big melon to eat in December 2021!
Sebastian Kurz, the world's youngest prime minister, announced his retirement from politics in early December.
In less than a month, he found almost the highest-paid manager position on the West Coast of the United States.
Industry insiders estimate that Kurz's annual salary, including bonuses, will exceed 500,000 euros (about 3.61 million yuan), far higher than the 312,000 euros (about 2.26 million yuan) he earned when he was prime minister.
However, although running to Silicon Valley, it seems to be going to do the old business? (Manual Dog Head)
According to a person who asked not to be named, the 35-year-old former prime minister is about to become a "global strategist" for Thiel Capital, helping the company understand the politics of the European Union and Austria.
Sebastian Kurz, who has worked in the government for ten years, is the youngest foreign minister as well as the youngest prime minister.
His victory in two National Assembly elections has angered Merkel and the European Union and brought Austria back to international attention.
And all of this will be forgotten.
This is politics, this is life.
The handsomest and youngest prime minister
In 2017, the news of a "handsome guy" caused a sensation around the world.
Sebastian Kurz, 31, became the youngest (and most handsome) prime minister in the world.
What's even more interesting is that the world's youngest head of government, who studied at the Law School at the University of Vienna, dropped out of school.
Compared with his studies, his political career can be described as "prosperous".
Sebastian Kurz was born on August 27, 1986 in Meidling, Vienna.
In 2003, Kurz joined the JVP (Youth Department of the Austrian People's Party), and his "legendary" political career began.
In 2008, Kurz won his first position as chairman of the Vienna Youth Party.
In 2010, Kurz took an active part in the federal government for the first time and became a member of the Vienna state and city councils.
In 2011, the Cabinet was reshuffled and under the leadership of Prime Minister Werner Faymann (SP), Kurz was appointed Secretary of State for Integration.
In 2013, in the legislative elections, Kurz won the most direct votes of any candidate and became a member of parliament. In December, Kurz, 27, resigned from parliament to become Austria's youngest foreign minister in history, where he remains the top diplomat.
In October 2017, Kurz became his successor with 31.7% of the vote and the largest number of seats in Parliament with 183 seats. His reformist methods, rhetorical skills, and youthfulness were considered the main reasons for his overwhelming victory.
During his first prime ministerial term, Kurz is credited with largely fulfilling his campaign promises, but his "uncooperative" and "sloppy" leadership style has been criticized. After several political scandals, Parliament ousted Kurz from power.
In 2019, Austria held another legislative election, and Kurz once again set a record for the BJP with 37.5% of the vote, and was sworn in in january 2020.
For the past four years, the 35-year-old has been the master of Austrian politics. But a scandal brought his second prime ministership to an abrupt end.
Police raided various ministries in Vienna, uncovering an investigation by Austrian state prosecutors into corruption in the core branches of the government.
While no formal charges have been made, part of the investigation is precisely media coverage of whether Kurz used state funds and issued false invoices to buy favorable media during his tenure as foreign minister from 2013 to 2017.
Kurz therefore announced that he was stepping down as prime minister in October 2021.
However, Kurz remained party chairman and parliamentary leader, and was able to retain control over government affairs, so he was also known as the "shadow prime minister" at the time.
Thursday, December 2, 11:30 a.m. Sebastian Kurz dark suit, turquoise tie, voice firm. At a press conference, he announced that he would be resigning from all positions.
The decision was not easy for him, but despite this, "I don't feel any melancholy." Because I am so grateful for all that I have been through over the past decade."
On this day Kurz completely withdrew from politics and closed the door to his previously glorious political career.
Although Kurz's office was quickly emptied, he did not feel melancholy or heavy, but simply took away the small cross he had hung on the wall of his office.
An old friend of the company who has known each other for many years
Sebastian Kurz has arguably a soft spot for California and its tech giants, having traveled to the West Coast of the United States several times as foreign minister and prime minister.
This time, it should be regarded as "fulfilling the dream".
Kurz will join California-based Thiel Capital in the first quarter of 2022.
Once onboard, Kurz's family will remain in Austria, while he will travel back and forth between Europe and the United States.
For Kurz, Peter Thiel, the founder of Thiel Capital, is an old acquaintance.
During the Munich Security Conference in February 2017, Kurz tweeted a photo of the two.
The German-American Peter Andreas Thiel was born in Frankfurt on October 11, 1967, and moved to the United States with his family.
Thiel studied philosophy at Stanford University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989.
He then founded Thiel Capital Management in 1996. In 1998, he co-founded the PayPal with several others and served as CEO. It was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
In 2000, PayPal CEO Peter Thiel and co-founder Elon Musk
After PayPal, Thiel founded Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund based in San Francisco.
In 2004, he founded Palantir Technologies, a big data analytics company, and served as chairman until 2019.
Thiel then co-founded Valar Ventures in 2010; Mithril Capital in 2012 as Chairman of the Investment Committee; and as a part-time partner at Y Combinator from 2015 to 2017.
In addition, Thiel was Facebook's first outside investor, acquiring a 10.2 percent stake in August 2004 for $500,000. Although he sold most of his stake in Facebook in 2012 for more than $1 billion, he remains a board member.
As of now, Thiel's net worth is estimated at $9.13 billion, ranking 279th in Bloomberg's list of billionaires.
Some netizens joked: "I don't know if this prime minister needs to smoke H1B?"
Resources:
https://www.ft.com/content/e70f3a82-a9b9-4376-af45-8679a4d46c52
https://www.heute.at/g/sebastian-kurz-sein-leben-in-bildern-100151729?category=/wirtschaft&image=27
https://www.aninews.in/news/world/europe/ex-austrian-chancellor-kurz-to-join-us-company-owned-by-trump-supporter-reports20211230182359/
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