Meet the 27-year-old Stanford grad who impressed Peter Thiel at a meet-&-greet and inspired the billionaire entrepreneur to invest in his crypto startup the next day

· *Alexander Liegl is the CEO at Layer1, a bitcoin-mining startup that raised $50 million in Series A funding from Peter Thiel and Shasta Ventures in 2019. *Before Layer1, Liegl launched a startup, Apax Labs, that helped the Mexican government detect tax fraud.
· In 2018, Liegl pitched an idea for an activist hedge fund for...