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posted by Fnord666 on Friday February 16 2018, @12:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-let-the-door-hit-ya dept.

Netflix's CEO offered to resign from Facebook's board in 2016, citing his fellow board member Peter Thiel's support of Donald Trump:

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings — who called his fellow board member Thiel's support of Trump "catastrophically bad judgment" in an email leaked to the Times — also offered to resign over his disagreement with Thiel, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Thursday. Sources told WSJ that Facebook CEO Zuckerberg declined Hastings' offer to resign. Facebook declined to comment on the matter to Business Insider.

Now, Thiel may resign from Facebook's board instead in the midst of packing up and leaving the Bay area:

The founder of PayPal and a prominent investor in Silicon Valley, Thiel is reportedly moving his investment firms Thiel Capital and Thiel Foundation out of the Bay Area and into Los Angeles this year, according to WSJ.

In L.A., Thiel is also reportedly planning to build "a right-leaning media outlet to foster discussion and community around conservative topics." Thiel bankrolled the lawsuits that eventually forced Gawker Media into bankruptcy, and has been trying to buy Gawker's now-defunct flagship site.

Although Thiel has called Silicon Valley a "one-party state", in the 2016 Presidential election, Hillary Clinton beat President Trump 72 percent to 22 percent in Los Angeles County.

The Guardian also has an article about Thiel's involvement in New Zealand.

Also at Ars Technica, The Mercury News, LA Times, and Vanity Fair.

Related: Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property
Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel's Doomsday Survival Plan
University Could Lose Millions From "Unethical" Research Backed by Peter Thiel
"Black Hole" of Accountability for Drug Trials Flouting FDA Oversight?
Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com


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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Disinteresto on Friday February 16 2018, @10:14PM

    by Disinteresto (5812) on Friday February 16 2018, @10:14PM (#639080)

    Maybe the Soylent drinking nerds in silicon valley are too full of heavy metals, and today's vampire needs fresh blood. I bet you could sell tickets to your remote New Zealand property in case the garbage future you're peddling actually happens. Surely no one with that much money would be taken seriously, but he earned it by selling his brain not his body and that's different. Los Angeles would never sell its young, would it? To a rich creep?

    Check the news for the drained husks found in his wake. Alert Kolchak! Email Mulder and Scully, there's a new daywalker in town.

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