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| Peter Andreas Thiel founder and former CEO of PayPal |
The article is quite interesting, but "the angle", the underlying opinion, not to talk about the stupidly negative cover photo, this one:
are so bad, like Peter is the enemy number one, then you wonder what it takes to be a Murdoch's conservative: actually you must want the Left to win, if you are a Right-winger who likes to win, who plays to win, the kinda don't like you. You are "the real enemy".
Therefore I didn't choose this one as cover photo, but the blue one. Yes Peter boasted "I'm a Predator, Predators win" and then? It's a bit of classic boast I copy and paste a bit from the article:
Dirty Secretes, how Peter Thiel became one of the most feared men in Silicon Valley.
They'll never forgive him I suppose to have really helped Trump win when he was at Facebook instead of pretending and pretending like Fox News. They hate him perhaps for this reason. I quote a bit.
With a fortune of $4.3 billion, Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley titan, having founded PayPal and invested early in Facebook. A new book reveals the dirty tactics that made him rich.
PayPal founder Peter Thiel liked Mark Zuckerberg for the same reasons most people couldn’t stand him.
Though the Facebook CEO is often criticized for being robotic and unfeeling, Thiel saw the younger man’s indifference as “a sign of intelligence,” writes Max Chafkin in his book, “The Contrarian” (Penguin Press), out now.
The two formed a mutual respect based on their iconoclastic ways.
“Zuckerberg, like Thiel, had stuck it in the eye of his politically correct peers when he’d hacked Harvard’s online directory to create FaceMash.” At college in the ’80s, Thiel had launched a conservative monthly called The Stanford Review, which fearlessly mocked liberals on campus.
When Facebook’s first president, Sean Parker, first brought Thiel into the fold as an investor in 2004, he warned Zuckerberg against the financier’s “dirty tricks.”
But Zuckerberg said he found Thiel’s tactics inspiring, and would even use them to drive his friend and co-founder Eduardo Saverin out of Facebook the next year.
“I learned it from him,” Zuckerberg replied to Parker in an instant-message exchange.
“And I’ll do it to Eduardo.”
Thiel, who turns 54 next month, is one of the most cutthroat financiers of his generation. With a fortune of $4.3 billion, according to Forbes, he’s difficult to pigeonhole — having gone from hedge-fund trader to Silicon Valley entrepreneur to data-mining surveillance capitalist — and almost impossible to understand.
“He is self-created, a Silicon Valley Oz, who has, through networking and a capacity for storytelling, constructed an image so compelling that it has come to obscure the man behind it,” Chafkin writes.
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Till now I just see Zuckerberg ousting Eduardo, we knew it, but on what base he learnt the dirty tactics from Peter? What dirty tactics? they just say he founded a University magazine to mock the liberals, sure, it doesn't seem the end of the world, after all, not even now.
More quotes: "Many of the people the author contacted for his book — millionaires with political power — “told me they were scared of him,” Chafkin writes. “He was that powerful, and he was that vindictive.”
Thiel is famously so vengeful that his name itself has become a verb. To “Peter Thiel” someone is to exact horrible retribution, like he did when he brought down gossip Web site Gawker Media in 2016. And as with almost every other takedown in his life, he did it without personally pulling the trigger.
The son of German immigrants, Thiel was born in Frankfurt and moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, when he was a baby. The Thiels moved frequently before settling in the San Francisco suburb Foster City. He was an outsider from the beginning, a fan of science fiction — he claimed he had memorized the entire “Lord of the Rings” trilogy — and an easy target for bullies, “even among people who considered themselves Thiel’s friends,” writes Chafkin.
One of his bullies, who helped plant “for sale” signs on the front lawn of Thiel’s home, told Chafkin that he “always thought [Thiel] might have a list of people he’s going to kill somewhere and that I’m on it.”
When Thiel enrolled at Stanford in 1985, he was disgusted by the hard-partying antics of his peers. “They drank; they smoked pot; they hooked up,” writes Chafkin. “Needless to say, Thiel did not partake in any of it. He didn’t really seem interested in making friends.”
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