An Open Letter to Peter Thiel
“Let us run through a few examples so that people can actually read the articles you find so illegitimate, and make their own judgment about their newsworthiness.
“Sean Parker, a partner in your Founders Fund and an early backer of Facebook, is one of the friends who was covered extensively on Gawker’s Valleywag. Those stories, some of them by me, helped define the colorful character played by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network, the David Fincher movie about the founding of Facebook. Parker was stung more recently by criticism from his neighbors of the disruption to 10th St. in Manhattan when the street was dug up to get a Fios line to Bacchus House […]
“Hulk Hogan was the first client represented by Charles Harder in a suit against Gawker. As we now know, the famous wrestler and entertainer sued over snippets of a sex tape apparently in order to shut down reporting of a racist rant against a black man dating his daughter. […]
“Ashley Terrill, also represented by Harder, is suing Gawker for $10 million for defamation. […] After claiming she was being harassed and surveilled by agents of Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolfe.
“Shiva Ayyadurai is a Massachusetts entrepreneur who says he invented email—about a decade after email was actually invented. […]
“I can see how irritating Gawker would be to you and other figures in the technology industry. For Silicon Valley, the media spotlight is a relatively recent phenomenon.”
Peter Thiel,
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