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Title. I honestly think he is genuinely more clever than the richer, more glory hogging power players, but that's just a guess.

https://www.padmagazine.co.uk/lifestyle/peter-thiels-net-worth-how-rich-is-the-paypal-founder-in-2025/27058/

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Regarding your second paragraph, Arnault or Bollaré or both? Are we just not talking about it internationally because I don't see much in the news about this, if anything.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'm talking about Thiel. Nobody else at the same level would match that description as far as I know. He basically wants cyberpunk corporate rule to be real, and thinks everything bad about Silicon Valley is good, probably because that's personally affirming for him.

Vincent Bollaré hasn't even come up, are you answering the right comment?

For reference, I'm in Canada, and I've been hearing about Thiel for years - well over a decade. Albeit never on the front page of anything. The main time I hear about Arnault is when I use him as an example of a quiet, little known billionaire, although I think I heard about it when he tried to leave France. I just looked up who the Bollaré family is now.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes, I was including @seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone since for me, they are replying between us, and mentioned Bollaré, I'll need to also look them up. I knew about Thiel and sports doping, monopolies, if I knew about micronations, I forgot. Thank you for bringing it up.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No problem, and happy cake day!

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 8 hours ago

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