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August 16, 2016 03:28 am GMT

Peter Thiels moral sleight of hand

Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Studio 1.0 Interview in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. EBay Inc.'s PayPal service will start accepting bitcoins, opening up the worlds second-biggest Internet payment network to virtual currency transactions. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEarlier today, we started seeing rumblings about a New York Times op-ed from famed entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel — an op-ed where he’d lay out the case against Gawker. Thiel, of course, quietly poured $10 million into the lawsuit by Terry Bollea, a.k.a. Hulk Hogan, whichbankrupted Gawker Media. Thiel’s financial involvement wasn’t revealed until after… Read More

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