
Conspiracy reveals billionaire Peter Thiel's decade-long plot to destroy Gawker Media after they outed him. This $140 million revenge saga captivated Tim Ferriss and Robert Greene, exposing the shadowy intersection of tech wealth, privacy, and power that can topple media empires.
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What happens when one of Silicon Valley's sharpest minds decides to wage a decade-long war against a media empire? In 2016, Hulk Hogan won $140 million against Gawker Media for publishing his sex tape. The world shrugged-another celebrity lawsuit. Then came the twist: Peter Thiel, the billionaire who co-founded PayPal and invested early in Facebook, had secretly bankrolled the entire operation. This wasn't impulsive revenge. It was a chess game played across ten years, with moves so calculated that even Barack Obama's team studied it afterward. Thiel had nursed his grudge since 2007, when Gawker casually outed him as gay without permission. While most people would have fumed and moved on, Thiel did something different. He waited, planned, and systematically dismantled one of the internet's most fearless media companies. This is the story of how patience, secrecy, and unlimited resources can reshape the world-and what that means for the rest of us.