Valleywag plays the ‘Al Qaeda’ role for Silicon Valley
ADOTAS — The Gawker Media tech gossip site has gleefully whacked Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and a Facebook investor, like a piñata for a while now.
He was even mentioned in Owen Thomas’ goodbye missive to make sure Valleywag stays on top of the Silicon Valley gossip heap. Unsurprisingly, Thiel doesn’t really apprecate it. He tells peHub that he thinks the Nick Denton spawn is “destructive and that Valleywag is the Silicon Valley equivalent of Al Qaeda.
Valleywag had recently noted, through leaked documents, that Thiel didn’t make as much from the sale of PayPal as he believes he deserved. Using info from the documents about a fund Thiel runs, Valleywag said he is merely a millionaire not a billionaire.
Thiel said he never complained, “I think we did something well, but we were also a little bit lucky, and the notion that people didn’t make enough money is just crazy. I honestly don’t know where they come up with this stuff.”
I think Gawker has gotten meaner in its old age, and Owen Thomas, specifically, can be a blowhard, albeit a witty one. But it got him a better and bigger paying job, so….
UPDATE: The new Valleywagger, Ryan Tate, responds with “Valleywag will continue to be a place that prints the truths that others are too polite to say out loud.” Right. Between the speculation, guesses and extrapolations, we will find the truth damn it.
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