Thiel's Gawker Revenge Plan
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A story about how Peter Thiel methodically plotted for years to take down Gawker after they outed him as gay.
"Peter Thiel plotted and had people on staff for like 5 or 10 years with instructions: 'When you see Gawker screw up, you tell me and we're gonna pounce.' He wanted to sue them because they outed him as being gay. He also had a black Mercedes everywhere he went that was just ready to roll in case anything bad happened.
When you're at that level, one of the feelings that doesn't sit well with you is impotence. When people were like 'Peter, there's just nothing you can do about it,' he was like 'Then what's the point of everything I've done?' So in that sense it's very understandable.
The problem is if you're the kind of person who is going to spend 10 years chasing down this media outlet when everyone is telling you not to do that, you're also the kind of person who can get sucked into other things that I think are going to pay off less well, whether it's backing JD Vance or Blake Masters or some of the other political bets that he's made."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.