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Peter Thiel’s Masterful Luck

Six months after Donald Trump was ousted from office, the venture capitalist who helped put him in the White House is surprisingly poised to be more powerful than ever.

Peter Thiel at a 2018 New York Times Dealbook event.
Photo by Michael Cohen/Getty Images for the NYT
Theodore Schleifer
June 10, 2021

Six months after Donald Trump was ousted from office, the venture capitalist who helped put him in the White House is surprisingly poised to be more powerful than ever. Peter Thiel, the seasteading, blood-swilling billionaire who euthanized Gawker, is back. And I think he could end up more of a player in the post-Trump G.O.P. than he ever was in the Trump G.O.P., when his influence was greatly exaggerated. The half-dozen people in Thiel’s political orbit I chatted up this week—yeah, talking their book—agree.