Peter Thiel Gamed Silicon Valley…

Photo: Peter Thiel in 2019. Photo Illustration: 731; Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota / Bloomberg. Article by Max Chafkin. Bloomberg – September 14, 2021.

In an exclusive excerpt from The Contrarian, a new biography, the disruption-preaching power broker is revealed as just another rich guy desperate to keep his fortune from the IRS.

The meeting started with a thank-you. President-elect Donald Trump was planted at a long table on the 25th floor of his Manhattan tower. Trump sat dead center, per custom, and, also per custom, looked deeply satisfied with himself. He was joined by his usual coterie of lackeys and advisers and, for a change, the heads of the largest technology companies in the world. […]

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This excerpt is from The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin, published by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright 2021 by Max Chafkin.