Peter Thiel's not in Silicon Valley anymore. He moved to LA, ostensibly because every dollar he invests in SF startups goes to landlords, but more likely because a large number of entrepreneurs and SV power players refused to work with him because of his Trump support.

Whether this ends up being a shrewd move or a strategic blunder remains to be seen. I also thought that it was pretty smart in a realpolitik sense when he did it, but now I'm wondering if he's won the battle but lost the war. There's a lot of tacit power in the heads of various SV engineers, entrepreneurs, and executives, most of which is currently devoted toward making people click on ads, but which could be a force to be reckoned with if their ability to stay in SV and continue getting people to click on ads were ever directly threatened.