They said: We don’t want to live in a world where the media can publish someone having sex-even if it’s just the “highlights”-simply because that person has talked about his sex life in public” “Peter and a team of conspirators and a judge and a jury in Florida had spoken. William James knew that every man is “ready to be savage in some cause.” The distinction, he said, between good people and bad people is “the choice of the cause.” This artificial hardening is a dangerous crossroads, a bargain with our primal forces that not everyone escapes or can emerge from with clean hands. “The Count of Monte Cristo would put it better: “What a fool I was not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!” Ah, but what dangerous business this is. “For all the claims that what Peter had done was personal and unethical and wrong, that he had made the world a worse place and horribly wronged a group of journalists, something surprising happened: Media actually did change. “You rush in to stamp out the sparks and end up fanning them into flames. It would take money from the venture capital arm of the CIA and soon take on almost every other arm of the government as clients.” The company would take antifraud technology from PayPal and apply it to intelligence gathering-fighting terrorism, predicting crime, providing military insights. In 2003, Thiel registered a company called Palantir with the Securities and Exchange Commission. He retooled a hedge fund called Clarium into a vehicle to make large, counterintuitive bets on global macro trends, seeding it with $ 10 million of his own money. With proceeds of some $ 55 million, Thiel assembled an empire. Within a few short years, Thiel formed and then sold PayPal, an online payments company, to eBay for $ 1.5 billion in July 2002, the month that Nick Denton registered the domain for his first site, Gizmodo. Then one day, surprising even himself, he walked out of one of the most prestigious securities law firms in the world, Sullivan & Cromwell, after seven months and three days on the job. His friends thought he might become a political pundit. At Stanford he created and published a radical conservative journal called The Stanford Review, then he wrote a book that railed against multiculturalism and “militant homosexuals” on campus, despite being both gay and foreign born. “His path was in some ways traditional-Stanford to Stanford Law to judicial clerkship to high-powered law firm-but it was also marked by bouts of rebellion. The other questions it, fights it, rejects it.” This is the way of the world.” Peter Thiel’s friend, the mathematician and economist Eric Weinstein, has a category of individual he defines as a “high-agency person.” How do you respond when told something is impossible? Is that the end of the conversation or the start of one? What’s the reaction to being told you can’t-that no one can? One type accepts it, wallows in it even. “It is always revealing to see how a person responds to those situations where he’s told: “There’s nothing you can do about it. Only later would Thiel’s role in bringing down Gawker become public. Hogan would end up with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker which had declare bankruptcy. He financed a lawsuit by Hulk Hogan who sued Gawker for invasion of privacy after they posted a videotape of him having sex with his best friend’s wife. It took almost a decade, but Thiel finally exacted his revenge. While Thiel’s sexuality had been known to close friends and family, he didn’t consider himself a public figure and was incensed that his privacy had been invaded. In 2007, in a short blogpost on Valleywag, Gawker outed Peter Thiel as gay. Genre: Nonfiction, Business, History, Politics, BiographyĬonspiracy tells the tale of Peter Theil, Paypal founder and billionaire investor, and the conspiracy he funded to exact revenge on Gawker Media.
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