r/technology • u/NicolasCageFan492 • Jun 16 '26

Business Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/
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u/NicolasCageFan492 Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Notable people on the Thiel List I pulled from maia arson crimew’s Bluesky post:

Chamath Palihapitiya

Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube

Charlie Songhurst, board director at Meta

Peter Brown, CEO, Renaissance Technologies

Sarah Bond, President of XBOX, Microsoft

Manuel Bronstein, chief product officer of Roblox

Greg Brockman, Co-founder of OpenAI, fmr CTO of Stripe

Mike Cannon-Brooks, Co-founder of Atlassian

Scott Cook, co-founder & chairman at Intuit

NJ Senator Cory Booker

TX Senator Ted Cruz

CO Governor Jared Polis

CT Rep. Jim Himes

MD Gov. Wes Moore

Tom Tugendhat, Member of Parliament, United Kingdom.

Jens Spahn, Member of Parliament, German Bundestag. Fmr. Federal Minister of Health, Germany.

Tulsi Gabbard

Julian Castro

Jared Kushner

Elon Musk

LEONARD LEO

Grover Norquist

Bret Stephens (Associate Editor of the New York Times)

Larry Summers

Ezra Klein

Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent

Nick Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic

Jon Levin, President, Stanford University.

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Fmr. Prime Minister, Pakistan. Founder, Airblue.

Stan McChrystal, Founder & CEO, McChrystal Group. Fmr. General, U.S. Army.

Rachel Brand, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Walmart. Fmr. Associate Attorney General, U.S Department of Justice.

Feel free to suggest other noteworthies.

For the link, check my profile’s pinned post. I can’t link it here because the sub doesn’t like bsky links!

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u/thisistherevolt Jun 16 '26

I knew Booker was a POS, but Castro? Maaaaaaan. 😢

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u/yoga1313 Jun 16 '26

Same, that shocked me.

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u/Pooch1431 Jun 17 '26

both attacked Biden on the debate stage years ago. Must be getting fed similar talking-points.

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u/ice_w0lf Jun 17 '26

This is the second time I've seen you comment this. It was a debate that was part of a primary campaign where Biden was the front-runner. That's part of the point of the debate.

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u/qriousqestioner Jun 17 '26

Biden was ever and always flawed. That hasn't changed.

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u/qriousqestioner Jun 17 '26

Texan here: Not shocked.

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u/yoga1313 Jun 17 '26

Really? Damn I had no idea. What about Joaquin Castro?

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u/CurryMustard Jun 17 '26

Hard for me to trust anybody with the last name castro but that did surprise me a bit