They're all buddies. It's a industry/regional oligarchy. Part of the system is you cut the rest of "the club" in on deals. If you don't, you get what's happening here: lawsuits.

Maybe a better way to say it is: when you’re investing millions of dollars in risky ventures, reputation is very important.

I'm thinking their reputations are a bit different in their heads than in reality.

Just look at their respective Twitter to know how to bin them.

Sauron does have a habit of consistently appearing, and consistently appearing where least expected.

Thiel is....Sauron?

I missed something.

I was saying this as a tounge-in-cheek way of calling Thiel evil. But also, Thiel is a LoTR geek, who took all of the wrong lessons from the novels, literally writing fan pieces that argued that Sauron was the good guy in LoTR to justify his personal authoritarian and fascist ideologies. Its literally why he named his company Palantir.

yes for about 2 years (2015 - 2017) as a part time partner

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-peter

> ...part-time partners (we do that with Peter Thiei for exampie, though at this point he's very involved)

From the quoted text above. I.e. more than part time partner (heavily involved)

He was a part-time partner, yes. (Back when they had part-time partners.)

He's also part of the Paypal mafia along with Musk, btw.