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Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com, a Site He Helped Bankrupt
Peter Thiel, the technology billionaire, submitted a bid this week to purchase Gawker.com, the remaining unsold property from the Gawker Media gossip empire that was nearly destroyed in 2016 by a lawsuit largely bankrolled by Mr. Thiel.
If approved, the acquisition could be the last step in a yearslong effort by Mr. Thiel to finish an independent journalism outfit that angered him in 2007 when it reported, without his permission, that he is gay, a fact widely known at the time in Silicon Valley.
Gawker.com has received other offers, and it is not clear if Mr. Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, will prevail. A winning bid is expected to be announced in the coming weeks, if representatives of Gawker.com do not take the site off the market.
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(Score: 2) by archfeld on Monday January 15 2018, @04:08AM (4 children)
In a non homosexual way this is how do you say... GAY ...
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Monday January 15 2018, @05:46AM (3 children)
Lame submission! Where is the cutting sarcasm? The mention of meetings with the "Donald", the sucking in of the blood of youth, you know, all the good stuff? Hey, SoylentNews could out Thiel as a Girardian new Age hoax! And then he could buy out us! Profit?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Monday January 15 2018, @06:33AM (2 children)
Don't worry. I think Thiel can't help himself from clashing with regulators over his biomedical pursuits. In fact, his tendencies will probably get worse as senescence looms (he's only 50 today).
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Monday January 15 2018, @06:46AM (1 child)
In which case, my dear and particular takyon, what can you think of my submissions, now that I am coming up on 2400 years old? Remember, it is not craziness that is correlated with age, nor is it age that is correlated with craziness, but it is craziness that is correlation with conservative political positions, like climate change denial, or vaxxers, or chem-trails and Rene Girard's mimetic craziness. And we are back to the fundamental question: if you are so rich, why aren't you smart? Those whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad. (George Fox, Bro!)
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Monday January 15 2018, @06:50AM
You should get your τ protein count checked out, as well as your midi-chlorians.
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