Ryan holiday conspiracy5/12/2023 Thiel founded and sold PayPal in considerably less time. It hadn’t taken too long after that Wednesday in December for him to decide that something had to be done, but it had taken four full years since then to conceive of what kind of response might even be possible. It was a favored expression of the Roman poet Virgil, for instance, that Fortune favors the bold.īut the truth is that most difficult ventures and even most stunning victories are as much the result of patience and due diligence than any single, brave stroke.įor instance in 2012, nearly five years have passed since Peter Thiel had been outed as gay very much against his will by by Gawker Media. “Given the same amount of intelligence,” Clausewitz dictum goes, “timidity will do one thousand times more damage in war than audacity. It is easy to confuse strategy and boldness. The New York Times called it “one helluva pageturner” so if you’re looking for something to read this summer, give it a look. The book is out in paperback today and I think is one of my best pieces of writing ever. The following article is an adaption of one of best chapters in my book Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire’s Secret Plot to Destroy A Media Empire.
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