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Reid Hoffman

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Dylan Byers • July 12, 2024

The Thiel-Hoffman Face-off in Sun Valley

News and notes from inside the Lodge, where former classmates Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel had a very public quarrel, Zaslav revealed his ’24 agenda, and masters of the universe debated the fate of Joe Biden.
Theodore Schleifer • March 12, 2024
Biden, Jeff Yass & D.C.’s TikTok Intrigue
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Inside the Silicon Valley lunch behind the president’s explorations on TikTok—and the Republican billionaire fighting to keep the app unbanned.
Theodore Schleifer • June 6, 2023
Jack & Bobby 2.0
Jack Dorsey politics have always been anti-establishment above all else, with a particular interest in radicals who challenge the party’s progressive-ish gospel.
News and notes from around the political donor universe: a Reid Hoffman controversy in Denver, Tim Draper’s Haley endorsement, and Robert Kennedy Jr.’s new money buddy, Jack Dorsey.
At a high level, Reid Hoffman doesn’t view the Florida governor as an existential threat to democracy, unlike Trump, and believes he may even have the ability to successfully govern.
Theodore Schleifer • March 21, 2023
S.B.F. Informants & A Strange DeSantis Bedfellow
New details on the subpoenas and next cards to flip in the FTX campaign-finance case. Plus, why Reid Hoffman might be offering some unlikely assistance to DeSantis.
Peter Thiel
Theodore Schleifer • July 26, 2022
The Washington Whisperers
As the midterms roil, it’s increasingly clear that Washington creatures are more than ever operating at the behest of Silicon Valley’s political class: Thiel and Conway, of course, but also S.B.F., Jan Koum, Ryan Salame, and a new crop of other budding mega-donors and mega-influencers.
Peter Thiel
Theodore Schleifer • June 21, 2022
Thiel vs. Hoffman: Stanford Takes Toledo
A thirty-year political debate is unfurling in Ohio as two Silicon Valley billionaires, and longtime friends, trade fire in a proxy battle that will shape the next era of big-money politics.
Elon Musk
Theodore Schleifer • April 26, 2022
Tales from the PayPal Mafia: Elon’s Hatchet Man & Thiel’s Test
Notes on the B.Y.U. alum running Musk’s family office and Thiel’s next moves. Plus, new details on how Reid Hoffman plans to kneecap the Berniecrats.
Peter Thiel
Theodore Schleifer • February 1, 2022
The Thiel Index
A potentially definitive, highly unscientific analysis of who has the most political juice right now in Silicon Valley.
Reid Hoffman
Theodore Schleifer • October 20, 2021
The $100 Million Plan to Completely Fix Washington
In 2017, a Wisconsin dairy scion wrote a Harvard Business School case study applying “industry competitive analysis” to party politics. The result is a $100 million plan to transform election rules. Reid Hoffman and members of one of the Bay Area’s wealthiest families have already signed on.
Sean Parker
Theodore Schleifer • September 24, 2021
Sean Parker’s Masterstroke and Larry Ellison’s Summer Fling
Plus: What really happened at “the Google of modern politics” after Reid Hoffman's eight-figure venture capital bailout.